Collect public web data at scale without getting cut off
Keep large crawls running against targets that fight back.
99.4%
median success rate
640 ms
p50 residential response
0
charged for failed requests
A crawler that works perfectly from your laptop falls apart the moment you scale it. One IP making ten thousand requests an hour is the single clearest bot signal there is, and every serious site rate-limits on it.
The failure mode is rarely a clean error. You get soft blocks: truncated pages, cached responses from an hour ago, prices that do not match what a real visitor sees. Your pipeline keeps running and quietly poisons your dataset.
Distributing requests across a large pool of residential addresses removes the per-IP concentration that triggers rate limits in the first place. Each request looks like a different visitor because, at the network layer, it is.
The part that matters more than pool size is control. Being able to pin a crawl to one country, hold a session for the length of a paginated flow, and back off per-domain is what turns a proxy from a blunt instrument into infrastructure.
How proxies solve it
Spread load across millions of addresses
Rotating residential exits mean no single IP accumulates a request history worth rate-limiting.
Hold sessions where flows require them
Multi-page journeys, logged-in areas and cart flows need the same exit for their duration. Sticky sessions hold for up to two hours.
See the page a local visitor sees
Country and city targeting removes the geo-redirects and currency substitutions that silently corrupt scraped data.
Fail loudly, not silently
We return explicit error headers for blocked responses instead of handing back a soft-blocked page your parser would happily ingest.
Which proxy to use
Residential Proxies
Route requests through consenting home broadband connections. The hardest pool to detect, and the one to reach for when a target actively fingerprints its traffic.
from $3.10 / GB
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How we would build it
- 1
Profile the target
Run a hundred requests through datacenter first. If they succeed, you have just saved 80% of your bandwidth bill.
- 2
Pick the right pool
Escalate to residential when ASN filtering appears, and to mobile only when residential starts getting challenged.
- 3
Set per-domain concurrency
Cap parallel requests per host in the dashboard so a single aggressive worker cannot get a whole domain to tighten its defences.
- 4
Use sticky sessions for flows
Any journey that spans more than one request should carry a session ID so the exit IP stays constant.
- 5
Monitor success by country
Per-country success rates surface a degrading market before it shows up as missing rows in your warehouse.
Web scraping questions
Adjacent workloads
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