Web Scraping Proxies: Picking a Pool for Each Data Job
Business intelligence, SEO tracking, market research and price comparison share one raw material: publicly available web data, collected automatically. The team doing the collecting has two questions to answer before it picks a proxy. How hard does the target site defend itself? And how much data does the job need? This guide answers both, then covers rotation and the working habits that keep collection responsible.
The ground rule throughout: public data only, each site's terms of service and robots directives respected, and request rates kept modest. Proxies let a team gather business data within those limits; they never replace them.
We write these guides for e-commerce, marketing and agency teams that pay for proxies by the gigabyte.
Three kinds of target, three pools
Open sites → datacenter
Plenty of sources, from product catalogues and public APIs to news and RSS feeds, use little or no bot-mitigation. Datacenter proxies suit them: our lowest rate (from $3.50/GB), speeds up to 1 Gbps, and the high concurrency that large crawls need.
Protected sites → residential
Once a site's bot-mitigation starts treating server IPs with suspicion, switch that target to residential proxies, from $3.99/GB. Requests from home-ISP addresses look like ordinary visitors, which is also why the results come back geo-accurate.
Demanding sites → premium or mobile
Residential Premium raises the success rate on the hardest targets, and mobile IPs fit collection from platforms built for phones.
Scenario by scenario
The table matches common scraping scenarios with a pool and a rotation mode, weighing cost against success rate.
| Scenario | Pool | Rotation | Reason |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open catalogues & APIs | Datacenter | Per-request | Low cost and high speed at volume |
| Sites with bot-mitigation | Residential | Per-request or sticky | Home-ISP IPs look like a normal visitor |
| Results for one location | Residential | Sticky | Matches the city or country a user sees |
| Phone-first platforms | Mobile (4G/5G) | Carrier rotation | Looks like a genuine cellular user |
| Hardest targets | Residential Premium | Sticky | Higher success rate on demanding sites |
Rotation keeps a crawl within reasonable limits
A crawl that sends thousands of requests from one address looks like a single visitor working at an impossible pace, and it hits rate limits fast. Rotating proxies share the requests out across many addresses, so each one carries only a small part of the load, as normal distributed traffic would. Rotate on every request for stateless jobs where each page is independent. Hold a sticky session when a multi-step flow, such as search, then results, then a detail page, must come from one steady IP.
A responsible-collection policy for the team
Treat sustainable scraping as written team policy rather than a one-off setting. Include these points:
- Public data only, with each site's terms of service and robots directives respected.
- Request rates throttled so the target's servers never carry undue load.
- An honest crawler identity where appropriate, and cached results instead of refetching pages that have not changed.
- The site's official API, whenever it offers one for the data you need.
The same habits reduce friction and the bandwidth bill, and they keep the team's collection legitimate and within each site's terms.
Tools, bandwidth and buying
Our proxies work over HTTP/HTTPS and SOCKS5, with sign-in by username/password or IP whitelist, so they fit the stacks data teams already use: Scrapy, Requests, Playwright, Puppeteer and Selenium. Headless browsers use far more bandwidth than plain HTTP requests, so model both on the proxy calculator before the budget is set.
Then compare tiers on the pricing page or buy now. The use case is covered in more depth on our proxies for scraping page.
Match the pool to the workflow
Every pool is billed per GB and run from the same dashboard, so one team can keep low-cost volume work and high-trust checks side by side.
High-volume collection from unprotected sites, automation, SEO tools
Market research, ad verification and geo-accurate checks on protected sites
Phone-first platforms, app and mobile ad testing
Hard targets where every failed request is costly
Covering several markets in one report? MIX packages combine multi-country residential traffic in a single order. Agencies buying on behalf of clients can apply for the reseller programme.
Get your team running
Per-GB pricing from $3.50 · 55+ countries · instant delivery · 30-day validity · no traffic logs · 24/7 human support
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Size the job
Pick a proxy type in the proxy calculator and enter the gigabytes you expect to use to see the order total.
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Order and pay
Choose the pool on the proxies page and pay by card through Stripe or in crypto through Cryptomus. Each order is billed per GB and does not renew on its own.
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Share access
Credentials appear in the dashboard as soon as payment clears. Add them to each tool with a login or an IP whitelist, then send one test request before the real job starts.
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