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If a video or a Reddit thread sent you here and you have never pointed code at a proxy, read these first. They cover the one decision that costs money (which proxy type) and the one habit that saves it (measuring before you buy).
7 min readStart here, Picking a proxy type

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 →8 min readStart here, Billing and the meter, Code you can paste

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 →7 min readPicking a proxy type, Start here

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 →9 min readStart here, Code you can paste

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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