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Topic web scraping

How to use ProxyChains (and prove the proxy is really used)

Install proxychains4, write a config that works, run any Linux tool through one or more proxies, read its messages, and prove the exit address changed.

July 17, 2026 · 15 min read

Proxies for AI Training Data: Building Datasets at Scale

Proxies for AI training data let you build large, diverse, current datasets when the open corpora fall short. Sizing bandwidth, geo-diversity, dedup, and which proxy type fits.

July 17, 2026 · 9 min read

Proxies for Glassdoor: The Right Type, Setup, and Avoiding Bans

Proxies for Glassdoor: why per-IP 403s and the review modal stop scrapers, the residential setup for salaries and reviews, sizing, and free vs paid.

July 17, 2026 · 8 min read

Proxies for Idealista: The Right Type, Setup, and Avoiding Bans

Proxies for Idealista: why Spain, Italy and Portugal listings need in-country residential IPs, how it blocks scrapers, and the free vs paid reality.

July 17, 2026 · 9 min read

Proxies for Indeed: The Right Type, Setup, and Avoiding Bans

Proxies for Indeed: why the public API is gone, the residential setup that scrapes job postings and salaries by market, sizing, and free vs paid.

July 17, 2026 · 7 min read

Proxies for LLM Scraping: Feeding Models From the Open Web

Proxies for LLM scraping gather web data for training and RAG as the open data commons closes to AI crawlers. Which type, rotation, and honest limits.

July 17, 2026 · 9 min read

Free Proxies for Web Scraping: Do They Work, and the Safe Alternatives

Do free proxies for web scraping actually work? Where the limits are, the safest free options, how to test them, and when to upgrade to reliable proxies.

July 11, 2026 · 10 min read

Proxies for Google Maps: The Right Type, Setup, and Avoiding Bans

Proxies for Google Maps: which type beats Google's unusual-traffic reCAPTCHA, how many IPs you need, sticky vs rotating, and where free proxies stop working.

July 11, 2026 · 12 min read

Proxies for Octoparse: The Right Type, Setup, and Avoiding Bans

Proxies for Octoparse: which type fits (residential, datacenter, ISP, mobile), how to set them up in a task, sticky vs rotating, and how to avoid bans.

July 11, 2026 · 11 min read

Proxies for Playwright: The Right Type, Setup, and Avoiding Bans

Proxies for Playwright: which type fits, native auth setup in Python and Node, per-context IPs, sticky vs rotating, and how to keep from getting banned.

July 11, 2026 · 11 min read

Proxies for Puppeteer: The Right Type, Setup, and Avoiding Bans

Proxies for Puppeteer explained: which type fits (residential, datacenter, mobile), how to set them up with page.authenticate, rotate IPs, and avoid bans.

July 11, 2026 · 10 min read

Proxies for Scrapy: The Right Type, Setup, and Avoiding Bans

Proxies for Scrapy explained: which proxy type fits your target, real settings.py and middleware setup, sticky vs rotating, and how to stop bans and 429s.

July 11, 2026 · 11 min read

Proxies for Selenium: The Right Type, Setup, and Avoiding Bans

Proxies for Selenium: which type fits (residential, datacenter, ISP, mobile), sticky vs rotating, the free-vs-paid reality, and how to avoid blocks and bans.

July 11, 2026 · 11 min read

Proxies for Target: The Right Type, Setup, and Avoiding Bans

Proxies for Target: which type beats its Akamai bot defense, how many US IPs you need for restock and price scraping, and where free proxies stop working.

July 11, 2026 · 12 min read

Proxies for Walmart: The Right Type, Setup, and Avoiding Bans

Proxies for Walmart: which type beats its PerimeterX bot defense, how many US IPs you need, sticky vs rotating proxies, and what free proxies really cost you.

July 11, 2026 · 11 min read

How to Avoid IP Bans While Web Scraping

A practical checklist to avoid IP bans while web scraping: rotate a proxy pool, pace your requests, send real browser headers, respect robots.txt, and back off.

July 3, 2026 · 8 min read

429 Too Many Requests: How to Fix It With Proxy Rotation

429 Too Many Requests means the server is rate-limiting your IP. Proxy rotation, the Retry-After header, and exponential backoff fix it for good.

July 3, 2026 · 8 min read

How to Get Around DataDome With Residential Proxies

DataDome scores your IP reputation, TLS fingerprint, and behavior. Residential proxies clear the reputation gate but not the other two, and this guide covers the rest.

July 3, 2026 · 11 min read

How to Scrape Past Cloudflare With Proxies in 2026

Cloudflare checks IP reputation, TLS and HTTP/2 fingerprints, JS challenges, and behavior. Proxies fix one layer, and the rest is what you still need to scrape past it.

July 3, 2026 · 8 min read

How to Use Proxies in Selenium (Chrome and Firefox)

How to use proxies in Selenium for Chrome and Firefox: set the proxy on the driver, fix authenticated proxies with selenium-wire, rotate IPs, and go headless.

July 3, 2026 · 8 min read

How to Use Proxies With Python Requests

How to use proxies with Python requests: the proxies dict, auth, Sessions, SOCKS5, rotating a pool, timeouts and retries, plus verifying your real exit IP.

July 3, 2026 · 9 min read

Proxies for Price Monitoring: A Practical Guide

Proxies for price monitoring: how to collect competitor prices at scale without bans, choose residential vs datacenter, and get geo-accurate, current data.

July 3, 2026 · 8 min read

Why You Keep Hitting reCAPTCHA When Scraping (and How to Reduce It)

reCAPTCHA interrupts your scraping when your IP reputation or behavior looks automated. Knowing what triggers the challenge is how you see it far less often.

July 3, 2026 · 9 min read

Proxies for Web Scraping: The Complete, No-Nonsense Guide

How to choose and use proxies for web scraping: proxy types ranked by job, rotation strategy, avoiding blocks, request hygiene, and code you can run today.

July 2, 2026 · 9 min read

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