Topic web scraping
Proxies for Travel Data: The Complete Map
Proxies for travel data: the complete map of scraping flights, hotels, cruise, rail and car rental, why every travel price depends on the market, and which residential setup reads each one.
Proxys für Web Scraping: der praktische Leitfaden
Proxys für Web Scraping: warum du sie brauchst, welcher Typ zu welchem Ziel passt, wie viele IPs, rotierend oder statisch, und wie du Sperren vermeidest statt sie mit CAPTCHA-Lösern zu überkleben.
We Tested 52 US Retailers' Bot Defenses. Here's Who Runs What
Retail bot-defense study: we sent 52 major US retail sites the same request from a home and a datacenter IP on one day. Which run Akamai, Cloudflare, DataDome, PerimeterX, F5 Shape, Kasada or Imperva, how many block datacenter on sight, and which have no wall at all.
Free Proxies for OpenSea: What Actually Works
Free proxies for OpenSea fail sustained floor and metadata scraping behind its rate limits and Cloudflare. A logged-out spot check works; real work needs residential.
Free Proxies for Scrapy: What a Test of 300 Showed, and the Settings to Use
We sent the first request of a new Scrapy project through 300 free proxies from our list. 83 returned the file. The settings and middleware that follow.
Free Proxies for Selenium: What 300 Page Loads Showed, and the Setup to Use
We loaded a page and its 25 files through 300 free proxies from our list, the way Chrome does. 111 arrived whole. The setup and timeouts that follow.
How to Use Proxies With aiohttp (async Python)
How to use proxies with aiohttp: the proxy argument, BasicAuth, trust_env, SOCKS5 through aiohttp-socks, rotating a pool across concurrent tasks, timeouts and retries.
How to Use Proxies With Axios (Node.js)
How to use proxies with axios: why the proxy option fails on HTTPS, the httpsAgent fix with https-proxy-agent, SOCKS, auth, rotating a pool, timeouts and verifying the exit.
How to Use Proxies With Colly (Go)
How to use proxies with Colly in Go: SetProxy for one proxy, the RoundRobinProxySwitcher for rotation, SOCKS, authentication, timeouts and retries, and verifying the exit IP.
How to Use Proxies With Node fetch (undici ProxyAgent)
Native fetch in Node has no proxy option. How to route it through a proxy with undici's ProxyAgent and setGlobalDispatcher, per-request dispatchers, auth, SOCKS, and verifying the exit.
How to Use Proxies With OkHttp (Java, Kotlin, Android)
How to route OkHttp through a proxy: the proxy() builder method, proxyAuthenticator for auth, SOCKS, a ProxySelector for rotation, per-client design, timeouts, and verifying the exit.
How to Use Proxies With Postman
How to set a proxy in Postman: the custom proxy configuration, system proxy, authenticated proxies, the desktop agent, SOCKS, Newman on the CLI, and verifying the exit IP.
How to Use Proxies With Puppeteer
How to use proxies with Puppeteer: the proxy-server launch arg, authenticated proxies with page.authenticate and proxy-chain, per-context proxies, and rotating a pool.
How to Use Proxies With wget
How to use a proxy with wget: the http_proxy and https_proxy environment variables, the -e flag, proxy auth, no_proxy, why wget has no SOCKS, and verifying the exit IP.
LLM API Rate Limits and Proxies: Why Changing Your IP Does Nothing
Developers hitting 429s on an LLM API often reach for a rotating proxy pool. The quota follows the key in the header, not the address it came from. What actually fixes it, and where proxies do belong in an AI stack.
requests vs httpx vs aiohttp: Proxies Compared
How the three Python HTTP clients handle proxies: the config each one uses, SOCKS support, sync versus async, connection reuse, and which to pick for a scraper.
Do Your Proxies Support WebSockets? How to Test It in Two Minutes
WebSockets fail through proxies in three specific ways, and provider docs almost never mention it. The two-minute test, how to read the failure, and why rotation is the usual culprit.
Scraping API Costs Run 50x Apart, and the Plan You Buy Is Not Why
Four scraping APIs, converted to one number: dollars per 1,000 requests. The range runs from $0.0749 to $3.75, and on one vendor both ends of a 25x spread sit inside the same $30 plan.
Headless Browsers Are Not Free: What Puppeteer Costs in Proxy Bandwidth
A headless browser downloads the whole page. Behind a residential proxy that is billed by the gigabyte, and at 6.54 MB per protected page fetch the meter runs faster than most teams budget for.
How the _abck cookie works, measured in a real browser
What the Akamai _abck cookie is, what its value contains, how the sensor rewrites it, and what a proxy changes. Measured in Chrome on 2 September 2026.
How to Configure Proxies for an Anti-Bot Solver API
Solver APIs generate a payload for one specific exit IP, so the proxy stops being a loose choice and becomes a parameter. Session length, geo matching, concurrency, and how to read your own exit address correctly.
What Is an Anti-Bot Solver API, and How Is It Different From a CAPTCHA Solver?
A solver API generates the payload an anti-bot script would have produced, over plain HTTP, so you skip the browser. Where it sits between a CAPTCHA solver, a scraping API, and your own proxy.
How to Use a Proxy: Every Setup, Every Wall, Every Fix
Fifty-six setup guides in one map: browsers, every major language, the twelve anti-bot walls by name, the CAPTCHA families, and the error codes that follow.
What People Actually Use Proxies For: The Honest Map
Proxies get sold as one product and used as a dozen. Here is what people genuinely buy them for, what breaks in each case, and which proxy type each one needs.
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Proxies that don't die mid-job
Residential, ISP, datacenter and mobile, verified by the same engine that runs tens of millions of checks. They read as a real device and hold up under load. Pay as you go, and your balance never expires. $0.44/GB is the 2,000 GB+ rate; a single gigabyte is $0.50/GB, with no minimum order.
129M+ proxy checks run · 100+ countries · HTTP / HTTPS / SOCKS · re-checked every few minutes · no signup