Proxies and Rotation

Proxies route your requests through different IP addresses, helping you avoid IP-based blocking and scale your scraping.

What Are Proxies?

Types of Proxies

Using Proxies with Requests

Proxy Rotation

Proxy Pool Class

Proxy Services

Validating Proxies

Proxies with Selenium

Handling Proxy Failures

Free vs Paid Proxies

Key Takeaways

• Proxies hide your IP and prevent blocking
• Datacenter proxies are cheap but easily detected
• Residential proxies are harder to detect but more expensive
• Rotate proxies to distribute requests across IPs
• Build a proxy pool class for better management
• Validate proxies regularly as they fail often
• Use try/except and retry logic for robustness
• Paid proxies are worth it for serious scraping