Web Scraping with Proxies — Beat Anti-Bot at Scale
Modern sites defend their data with CAPTCHAs, IP-reputation bans, rate limits and geo-walls. ProxyGen gives scraping teams the rotating residential and mobile IPs needed to collect public data reliably across 195+ countries, without tripping those defences.
Why scrapers need proxies
Send enough requests from one IP and a site will throttle or ban it. Proxies spread your traffic across many real IPs so each request looks like a different ordinary visitor, keeping collection running at volume.
The anti-bot signals proxies help with
- IP bans & rate limits: rotate residential IPs so no single address is hammered.
- Geo-walls: target a specific country or city to see the local version of a page.
- Datacenter detection: use real consumer IPs that pass reputation checks.
- DNS / geo mismatch: ProxyGen resolves hostnames through the same exit IP, removing a common fingerprint.
Best practices for reliable scraping
Match the proxy type to the target — residential or mobile for strict sites, datacenter for tolerant ones. Rotate sensibly, throttle your request rate, set realistic headers, and always honour each site's terms of service and robots directives along with our acceptable-use policy.
Web scraping FAQ
Which proxy type is best for scraping?
Rotating residential for most protected targets, mobile for the strictest, and datacenter for high-volume public data on tolerant sites.
Is web scraping legal?
Collecting publicly available data is broadly permitted, but you must respect each site's terms of service, applicable law and our acceptable-use policy.