Web scraping without proxies is like driving without a seatbelt — you might get away with it for a while, but eventually it will catch up with you. Modern websites employ sophisticated anti-bot measures that can detect and block scrapers within minutes.
Never send multiple requests from the same IP in quick succession. Use a rotating proxy pool to distribute requests across thousands of IPs. SpyderProxy's residential proxies automatically rotate IPs with each request.
Even with proxies, space out your requests to mimic human browsing patterns. A good rule of thumb is 1-3 seconds between requests per IP.
Set realistic User-Agent strings, Accept headers, and referrer information. Rotating these alongside your IPs makes your traffic indistinguishable from real users.
Implement retry logic with exponential backoff. If an IP gets blocked, rotate to a new one and retry after a delay.
For scraping protected sites (Amazon, Google, social media), use residential proxies. For less protected targets, datacenter proxies offer better speed and cost efficiency.
A production-grade scraping setup should include: a proxy management layer, request queue, error handling, data validation, and monitoring. SpyderProxy's API makes it easy to integrate proxies into any scraping framework — whether you use Python (Scrapy, BeautifulSoup), Node.js (Puppeteer, Playwright), or any other language.
