Avoid IP Bans & Blacklisting
Hundreds of requests from one IP get flagged and blocked fast by a target's security systems. Spreading traffic across a wide IP pool removes the single-source pattern that triggers a ban.
Data Scraping Proxies
Collecting data from target sites at volume without tripping IP bans or rate limits takes the right pool. Our residential, rotating, and datacenter proxies spread your requests across thousands of exits so you scale without getting blocked.
- Rate-Limit & IP Ban Protection
- Geo-Targeting Across 194 Countries
- Residential, Rotating & Datacenter Pools
- Unlimited Concurrent Threads
- HTTPS & SOCKS5 Protocol Support
- Self-Service Panel & Instant Delivery
Recommended Proxies for Data Scraping
ISP Proxy
Dedicated, stable IPs for long-running enterprise scraping sessions.
Datacenter Proxy
The lowest-cost option for high-volume scraping of static HTML sites.
Residential Proxy
Real user IPs for safely scraping bot-protected, JS-rendered targets.
Mobile Proxy
The highest trust score for the most aggressively-guarded targets, like Cloudflare or Akamai.
Why Use a Proxy?
Why do you need a proxy for data scraping?
A rotating pool, geo-targeting, and high concurrency.
Get Past Rate Limits
Most sites cap how many requests one IP can send per minute. Distributing traffic across many IPs raises that ceiling from per-IP to pool-wide, letting you pull far more data per minute.
Collect Geo-Accurate Data
Pricing, stock, and content vary by country and even city on many sites. Without a real IP from the target location, the data you collect can differ from what an actual local user sees.
Cut CAPTCHAs & Bot Detection
Datacenter IPs are often flagged by a target's bot-detection systems. Traffic from genuine home or mobile carrier lines reads as ordinary user activity instead.
Run Thousands of Requests in Parallel
Unlimited concurrent threads plus a wide IP pool let you crawl thousands of pages at once. Collection time drops from hours to minutes compared to sequential requests from a single IP.
Keep Your Own Infrastructure Hidden
Your scraping traffic exits through the proxy pool, not your own server or office network. Your real infrastructure never appears in the target site's logs.
Cut Cost at Volume
For high-volume, lightly-guarded targets, datacenter proxies cost far less per GB or per IP. Switch to residential on tougher targets and manage budget by how sensitive the job actually is.
Rotate or Stay Sticky, By Job
Per-request rotation is most efficient for one-off jobs like pagination; flows that need a login or a cart require the same IP held for a while. Run both modes under the same Proxynet account.
Data Scraping & Proxy Infrastructure
What is Data Scraping?
Data scraping (web scraping) is the process of using automated tools to collect content from websites and turn it into structured data — prices, catalogs, stock levels, search results. Instead of copying pages by hand, a bot or script visits target pages on a schedule and extracts the data.
Why You Need a Proxy: Target sites recognize and block heavy traffic from a single IP, apply rate limits, or serve CAPTCHAs. Many pages also show different prices and content by country. Without a proxy, your scraper stalls after a handful of requests or pulls the wrong data entirely.
Which Proxy, and When: Session mode, IP source, and pricing all change with the task:
| Task Type | Session Mode | IP Source | Pricing |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pagination, bulk crawling | Rotating Proxy | Residential or Datacenter | Per GB or per IP |
| Login, cart tracking | Sticky Proxy | Residential | Per GB |
| High-volume, lightly-guarded targets | Rotating | Datacenter Proxy | Per IP (monthly) |
| Aggressively-guarded targets (Cloudflare, Akamai) | Rotating, low concurrency | Mobile Proxy or the highest-trust residential | Per GB |
The Proxynet pool unifies 160 million+ residential and mobile IPs across 194 countries in one dashboard. Route traffic over HTTPS Proxy or SOCKS5 Proxy, and reuse the same infrastructure for market research and SEO/SERP research projects as well.
Which sites are easy, which are hard? A quick difficulty guide
Difficulty tracks how a site renders and how hard it fights back — from static HTML with no bot defenses to JS-rendered pages behind Cloudflare or Akamai:
| Difficulty | Example Sites | Recommended Proxy | Extra Requirement |
|---|---|---|---|
| Easy | News sites, simple corporate pages, real estate portals | Datacenter proxy | None |
| Medium | React/Vue SPAs — modern e-commerce, listing sites | Residential proxy | Headless browser (Playwright, Puppeteer) |
| Hard | Cloudflare/Akamai-protected sites — large retailers, ticketing, social platforms | Mobile proxy or highest-trust residential | Low concurrency + realistic browser behavior |
Setup Steps & Boundaries
How is data scraping done?
The four stages of setting up a scraping workflow from scratch:
- Defining the Target and Data Model: Decide which pages to crawl and which fields to extract — price, title, SKU, stock. Check the target site's robots.txt and terms of use at this stage.
- Choosing the Proxy Type and Targeting: Use automatic IP rotation for one-off jobs like pagination, and a fixed IP for flows that need a session. As the source, reach for real home-user IPs on hard targets, datacenter IPs at high volume, or a 4G/5G mobile line for mobile-first targets, and set your country/city targeting at the same time.
- Tool Integration: Point Scrapy, Playwright, Selenium, or your own HTTP client at a single backconnect host:port. Set the concurrent thread count to match what the target site can handle.
- Rate Limits, Retries, and Validation: Add backoff and retry logic for 429/403 responses. Spot-check the data you collect to confirm it's real content and not a block page or CAPTCHA.
What It Is Not
- It is not a tool for collecting personal data covered by GDPR or similar regulations.
- It is not a method for accessing authenticated or private areas without authorization.
- It does not override a target site's terms of use; scope should stay limited to publicly accessible pages.
A Proxy Alone Isn't Enough
- Solving CAPTCHAs isn't the proxy's job — you may need a separate CAPTCHA-solving service.
- Browser fingerprinting (canvas, WebGL, user-agent consistency) needs to be managed separately.
- Sites requiring JavaScript rendering need a headless browser — the proxy only solves the network layer.
Connect Your Scraper in One Line
Whatever tool you use, the same gateway works: one host:port and a username:password pair.
- Gateway
- gate.proxynet.io
- Port
- 8000
- Protocols
- HTTP · HTTPS · SOCKS5
- Authentication
- user:pass or IP whitelist
In Scrapy, set it via DOWNLOADER_MIDDLEWARES; in Playwright or Selenium, pass the same proxy server in the browser launch options.
# Fill in the username and password from your panel
curl -x "http://KULLANICI:SIFRE@gate.proxynet.io:8000" https://api.ipify.orgimport requests
# HTTPS traffic is also given as an http:// URL; the tunnel is set up with CONNECT.
proxy = "http://KULLANICI:SIFRE@gate.proxynet.io:8000"
r = requests.get(
"https://api.ipify.org",
proxies={"http": proxy, "https": proxy},
timeout=15,
)
print(r.text.strip())import { ProxyAgent, fetch } from "undici"
// A single agent is enough for both HTTP and HTTPS requests.
const agent = new ProxyAgent("http://KULLANICI:SIFRE@gate.proxynet.io:8000")
const res = await fetch("https://api.ipify.org", { dispatcher: agent })
console.log(await res.text())package main
import (
"fmt"
"io"
"net/http"
"net/url"
)
func main() {
proxy, _ := url.Parse("http://KULLANICI:SIFRE@gate.proxynet.io:8000")
client := &http.Client{Transport: &http.Transport{Proxy: http.ProxyURL(proxy)}}
res, err := client.Get("https://api.ipify.org")
if err != nil {
panic(err)
}
defer res.Body.Close()
body, _ := io.ReadAll(res.Body)
fmt.Println(string(body))
}<?php
$ch = curl_init("https://api.ipify.org");
curl_setopt_array($ch, [
CURLOPT_PROXY => "http://gate.proxynet.io:8000",
CURLOPT_PROXYUSERPWD => "KULLANICI:SIFRE",
CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
]);
echo curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);using System.Net;
var proxy = new WebProxy("http://gate.proxynet.io:8000")
{
Credentials = new NetworkCredential("KULLANICI", "SIFRE"),
};
using var client = new HttpClient(new HttpClientHandler { Proxy = proxy });
Console.WriteLine(await client.GetStringAsync("https://api.ipify.org"));Use Cases
Data Scraping Industry Use Cases
From SEO tracking and e-commerce price monitoring to academic datasets and labor-market analysis — the fields data scraping powers.
Track Google and Yandex rankings from different country and city IPs, collecting real search results stripped of personalization.
Monitor competitor pricing, assortment, and regional campaigns from real location IPs, so your samples match exactly what a local user sees.
Collect hashtag and engagement data from public Instagram, TikTok, and X (Twitter) profiles.
Collect price, news, and company data from public market pages in real time.
Build large, structured datasets from public web pages — clean input for machine learning and statistical research.
Pull headlines and summaries from multiple news sources to power your own aggregation platform.
Track listing price, size, and location data across real estate portals at scale.
Collect role, skill, and salary-range data from job boards to power labor-market analysis.
What customers say
Rated 4.4 out of 5 — "Excellent" on Trustpilot.
Trustpilot
Support and proxy quality
When you take the quality of the proxies they sell together with pre-sales and after-sales support, I can say they are among the best on the market. I want to work with them for a long time — thank you.
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Çağlar
Trustpilot · 5.0/5 · Aug 2022
Trustpilot
One of the best customer support teams you will see
I was using a proxy from another company and could not get support. I was already registered on proxynet.io before buying; when a customer-service email arrived on Saturday I decided to try. So far I can say their fast replies and problem-solving approach really impressed me.Read on Trustpilot
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Kemal
Trustpilot · 5.0/5 · Sep 2023
Trustpilot
Technical support is fast, ISP proxies work
Technical support is fast. I was very happy with the ISP proxies; you could make prices a bit more affordable, mobile is unfortunately expensive, but ISP speeds and subnet quality are solid.Read on Trustpilot
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Andre James
Trustpilot · 5.0/5 · Dec 2023
Frequently Asked Questions.
Everything you need to know about Data Scraping.
Have a different question, or need high-volume scraping infrastructure? Our expert team is available 24/7.
Data scraping is the process of using an automated bot or script to collect content from web pages and turn it into structured data — a table, JSON, or database. The script requests target pages over HTTP, parses the HTML, and extracts the fields you want (price, title, stock, and so on). Doing this at volume from one IP gets detected and blocked fast, which is why a proxy pool is used.
Rotating and residential answer different questions: rotating is the session mode that decides whether the IP changes on every request, while residential is the source type describing where the IP comes from — a genuine home-user line. In practice you usually combine both: rotation turned on over a residential pool, so every request exits from a different real user IP. For heavily-guarded targets, residential plus rotating is the fit; for high-volume, lightly-guarded targets, datacenter plus rotating is more economical.
Residential proxies come from real ISP lines and read as ordinary user traffic on the target, carrying a high trust score — but they're billed per GB. Datacenter proxies come from server farms, cost far less, and offer high bandwidth, but are easier for some tightly-guarded sites to detect. Use datacenter for high-volume, lightly-guarded targets, and residential where bot detection is aggressive.
All three support the backconnect endpoint format — host:port plus username:password — natively. In Scrapy you set it via DOWNLOADER_MIDDLEWARES; in Playwright or Selenium you pass the proxy server in the browser launch options. You never need to maintain a proxy list or write rotation logic in your own code — one address is enough.
Collecting data from publicly accessible web pages is generally legal, but collecting personal data covered by GDPR or similar law, accessing authenticated areas without authorization, and violating a target's terms of use are separate legal risk areas. Proxynet provides infrastructure for legitimate use within those boundaries — check the target site's robots.txt and terms of use before you scrape.
No. A proxy solves IP-based blocking and rate limits, but CAPTCHAs are usually triggered by browser fingerprinting, behavior patterns, or IP reputation. Using a high-trust residential or mobile IP cuts CAPTCHA frequency significantly, but may not eliminate it — you may still need a separate CAPTCHA-solving service alongside it.
How to Buy a Data Scraping Proxy
Three steps, a few minutes end to end.
Top up your balance
Add funds to your wallet first: on ISP, datacenter, residential, mobile and gaming the balance you hold also sets your unit price — the higher it is, the less you pay per IP or per GB.
Create your proxies
Pick the product and where it exits: a quantity of IPs on the per-IP products, one gateway on the per-GB ones. Either way it is live at once, with no order to wait on.
Connect and manage
Authenticate with user:pass or whitelist your server's IP, then point your tools at what the panel gives you: an exported list of addresses, or the gateway's single host:port.