Proxies for web scraping. Built to not get blocked.
Scraping fails for one reason above all others: too many requests from one address. Rotating residential IPs spread the load so a crawl looks like many visitors, not one, and finishes instead of getting blocked.
What fits
3 products fit, best first
Recommended for Web scraping
Residential Proxies
- Real household connections
- Rotate per request or hold a sticky session
- Country, state and city targeting
- Pay per GB, traffic never expires
- SOCKS5 and HTTP
Web Scraper APIs
- One REST call, structured JSON back
- Proxies and captchas handled server-side
- Failed extractions are not charged
- Pay per call from one balance
- No subscription, no monthly minimum
Datacenter Proxies
- The budget workhorse for volume jobs
- Unlimited traffic
- IPv4 and IPv6 pools
- Dedicated, never shared
- SOCKS5 and HTTP
- Residential proxies
- The workhorse of scraping: a rotating pool of real home IPs, billed per GB, that keeps any single address under the limits sites count against.
- Scraper API
- The hands-off option: a URL in, clean data out, with proxy rotation, retries and unblocking handled so you skip the anti-bot arms race entirely.
- Datacenter proxies
- The cheap, fast choice for sites that do not screen by network, load-testing your own service, or scraping sources that simply do not care.
Almost every block traces back to requests per IP
The obstacles a scraper meets, rate limits, CAPTCHAs, sudden bans, are overwhelmingly responses to one address making too many requests too fast. Sites count per IP, so the fix is structural: reduce the requests any single address makes by spreading them across a pool.
That is what a rotating residential proxy does. The same total volume, distributed across thousands of real home IPs, means no single one crosses the threshold that trips a defence, and the crawl that used to die at a few thousand requests runs to completion.
Match the proxy to the target, not the other way round
The right proxy depends on what you are scraping. A site that screens datacenter ranges needs residential; one that only rate-limits may be fine on cheaper datacenter IPs; one behind a serious anti-bot stack is often better handed to the scraper API than fought directly.
The honest rule is to start with the cheapest option that survives the target and move up only when it does not, rather than paying for residential on a source that never needed it. The free proxy list is there for a first probe before you commit.
FAQ
Web scraping questions, answered
What kind of proxy is best for web scraping?
Rotating residential for defended sites, datacenter for undefended ones, and the scraper API when you would rather not manage proxies at all. The target decides: start cheap and move up only when a source blocks the cheaper option.
Why do I keep getting blocked when scraping?
Almost always because too many requests come from one IP. Sites count per address, so a single proxy pulling volume gets rate-limited or CAPTCHA'd. Spreading the crawl across a rotating pool is the structural fix.
How much does scraping with proxies cost?
Residential is billed per gigabyte of traffic, so cost tracks how much you fetch, and the balance never expires. Fetching only what you need, skipping images you will not parse, keeps it low. See the pricing page for the current per-GB rate.
Related: AI scraping, AI agents.