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Which proxy type do I need? A flowchart for broke people
Four questions that pick between residential, ISP, datacenter and no proxy at all, with what each answer costs at today’s prices.
Read →How much bandwidth will my scrape eat? Measure it before you pay
Measure what one page costs on the wire from your own connection, multiply it out, and know the gigabytes before you buy any.
Read →Residential vs datacenter: stop buying the expensive one
Most people reach for residential proxies when datacenter would have done the job. How to tell which one a target needs, in five minutes.
Read →Your first scraper with Python and rotating proxies
A working scraper in about forty lines: requests, rotating proxies, retries that do not hammer the target, and a byte counter so you see what you spend.
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