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Choosing the Best Proxies for Web Scraping

From eCommerce and market research to competitive analysis and more, web scraping has become an integral part of data collection. And for some, it’s the secret sauce for success.

But with great scraping power comes great responsibility.

Web scraping can result in IP bans and other harsh restrictions. To avoid these issues, many turn to proxies, which act as intermediaries between your requests and the target website. In this article, we’ll explore the top 3 proxy types for web scraping and focus on the key benefits of each proxy. Let’s go!

Post author By Igor Savinkin
Post date September 21, 2023

Guest posting

Bright Data’s Business Capabilities

Bright Data offers its customers a full suite of real-time data collection tools that help them gain and maintain a competitive market edge. BrightData prides itself on its ethical and 100% legally compliant approach.

Post author By Igor Savinkin
Post date September 9, 2023

Review

A Comprehensive Examination of NetNut Proxy Services

When traversing the digital landscape for high-quality proxy services, the name NetNut often emerges as a frontrunner. This review aims to delve into the facets of NetNut’s offerings, emphasizing the distinctive aspects that set it apart in an intensely competitive environment.

An Introduction to NetNut

In the world of proxies, NetNut.io has built a reputation for speed, reliability, and robustness. Leveraging its partnership with a major US data carrier, NetNut offers a residential proxy network that is both unique and high-performing. The company’s network is expansive, with a coverage that spans millions of IPs globally, presenting an impressive degree of scalability.

Post author By Igor Savinkin
Post date September 5, 2023

Development

Static Residential Proxies

Static Residential Proxies do not rotate randomly but rather on-demand. They are good for web scraping to make a spider maintain its session at single website. And this session memory might last for life.

How are they different from dynamic/rotating residential proxies?

Greater stability
Faster speed
Website sessions keeping

Post author By Igor Savinkin
Post date June 9, 2023

Development

Choosing reliable [rotating] residential proxies

Service	Residential	Cost/month	Traffic/month	$ per GB	Rotating	IP whitelisting	Performance and more	Notes
Oxylabs.io		$ 300	25 GB	9 - 12 "pay-as-you-go" - 15	yes	yes	- 30K requests - 1.3 GB of data - 5K pages crawled	Not allowing to scrape some of grey zone targets, incl. Linkedin.
Rainproxy.io	yes	$ 4	from 1 GB	4	yes
Infatica.io		from $ 96	from 10 GB	3.5 - 12	yes	yes	Over 95% success *Bans from Cloudflare are also few, less than 5%.	No "pay-as-you-go" plan
BrightData	yes			15
Charity Engine -docs	yes	-	-	starting from 3.6 Additionally: CPU computing - from $0.01 per avg CPU core-hour - from $0.10 per GPU-hour - source.			failed to connect so far
Smartproxy		Link to a price page	1 GB	8-10 "pay-as-you-go" - 12.5	yes	yes	65M+ IPs, 195+ countries	Not allowing to scrape some of grey zone targets, incl. Linkedin.
ScrapeOps Proxy Aggregator	yes	API Credits per month	N/A	N/A		yes	Allows multithreading, the service provides browsers at its servers. It allows to run N [cloud] browsers from a local machine. The number of threads depends on the subscription: min 5 threads.	The All-In-One Proxy API that allows to use over 20+ proxy providers from a single API
Lunaproxy.com	yes	from $15	x Gb per 90 days	0.85 - 5				Each plan allows certain traffic amount for 90 days only.
LiveProxies.io	yes	from $45	4-50 GB	5 - 12	yes	yes		Eg. 200 IPs with 4 GB for $70.00, for 30 Days limit
Mango Proxy	yes	from $12	1-50 GB	8.5-12 "pay-as-you-go" - 12.5		yes

See more exensive and detailed comparison in here.

Undetectable’s proxy partners.

Post author By Igor Savinkin
Post date January 18, 2023

Development Guest posting

Scrape ‘Ticketmaster’ using Selenium with Python

We’ve got some code provided by Akash D. working on ticketmaster.co.uk. He automates browser (Chrome as well as Edge) using Selenium with Python. The rotating authenticated proxies are leveraged to keep undetected. Yet, the site is protected with Distil network.

Post author By Igor Savinkin
Post date August 30, 2022

Challenge SaaS

Web Scraper IDE to scrape tough websites

Recently we encountered a new powerful scraping service called Web Scraper IDE [of Bright Data]. The life-test and thorough drill-in are coming soon. Yet now we want to highlight its main features that has badly (in positive sense, strongly) impressed us.

Post author By Igor Savinkin
Post date November 10, 2021

Development

Backconnect Proxy Service with authorization in JAVA

Working with a Backconnect proxy service (Oxylab.io) we spent a long time looking for a way to authorize it. Originally we used JSoup to get the web pages’ content. The proxy() method can be used there when setting up the connection, yet it only accepts the host and port, no authentication is possible. One of the options that we found, was the following:

Post author By Slava Mihaschenko
Post date December 25, 2020

Review

Oxylabs.io at a glance

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Oxylabs.io is an experienced player in the proxy market. In the past few years, they have significantly expanded their proxy pool.

Right now they have a residential proxy pool with over 60M IPs and over 2M datacenter proxies. Their residential proxies cover every country in the world (!) and offer city-level targeting. Oxylabs datacenter proxies come from 82 locations and feature 7850 subnets.

Oxylabs is mainly focused on businesses and it is reflected in their product subscription plans. But recently they have introduced a Fast-Checkout feature, where customers can purchase residential proxies in a few clicks. Together with a recently added smaller plan ($300/month for 20GB of traffic) Oxylabs becomes much more attractive for smaller customers as well.

Post author By Igor Savinkin
Post date May 18, 2020

Review

NetNut.io Review

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The most successful enterprises are always the ones which manage to stay a step ahead of their rivals. And to remain ahead, you have to be able to access the industry information faster and more consistently than anybody else. This is especially true for e-commerce and online retail industries, where the pricing contest is extremely fierce. Thus, the smallest developments in information processes can result in large changes in the outcomes.

Post author By Igor Savinkin
Post date April 16, 2020