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- 04 Aug 2026How to rotate proxies in Python without making a messSession handling, retry policy and connection pooling patterns that survive contact with a real crawl.Tutorials · 11 min
- 28 Jul 2026SOCKS5 vs HTTP proxies: what the difference actually isBoth carry your traffic; they disagree about how much they understand it. When that matters and when it does not.Fundamentals · 6 min
- 21 Jul 2026Geo-targeting that actually worksPicking a country is the easy part. Making the rest of the request agree with it is what determines whether you get the local page.Engineering · 7 min
- 07 Jul 2026The legal landscape for web scraping in 2026Where the law has actually settled, where it has not, and the practical rules that keep you on the right side of it.Industry · 10 min
- 30 Jun 2026Using proxies with Playwright: a complete guidePer-context proxies, credential handling, bandwidth control and the failure modes that waste an afternoon.Tutorials · 9 min
- 23 Jun 2026ISP proxies: static addresses that look residentialWhat they are, why they sit between the two familiar products, and the volume at which they become the obvious choice.Fundamentals · 6 min
- 16 Jun 2026How to benchmark a proxy provider properlySuccess rate, latency percentiles and cost per successful page — and why the first number every vendor quotes is the least useful.Engineering · 8 min
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