Rotating residential proxies are the best choice for most web scraping tasks. They provide the highest success rates because their IPs come from real ISP connections. For sites with minimal anti-bot protection, datacenter proxies are more cost-effective. For persistent sessions (login, navigation), ISP proxies offer stable, trusted IPs.

Use rotating residential proxies, set 1-5 second intervals between requests, rotate user agents and headers, respect robots.txt, handle CAPTCHAs with retry logic on different IPs, maintain same IP for multi-page navigation, and monitor success rates. Combining these strategies yields 95-99% success rates on most targets.

With Hex Proxies rotating residential proxies, you access the entire 10M+ IP pool — the question is bandwidth, not IP count. Each request automatically gets a different IP. For aggressive anti-bot targets, plan for 1 proxy per 10-50 requests per hour.

Yes, but you need a headless browser like Puppeteer, Playwright, or Selenium. Configure it to route traffic through your Hex Proxies connection. The proxy handles IP rotation while the browser handles JavaScript execution. Note that headless browser scraping consumes more bandwidth per page.

Retry requests on different IPs — CAPTCHAs are often triggered by IP reputation. If they persist, reduce request rate, improve headers, and consider using a headless browser. For unavoidable CAPTCHAs, third-party solving services can be integrated. Our high-quality residential IPs minimize CAPTCHA encounters.

HTTP requests (Requests, axios) are fast and bandwidth-efficient but cannot execute JavaScript. Headless browsers (Puppeteer, Playwright) handle SPAs and dynamic content but use 5-20x more bandwidth. Start with HTTP requests for static sites, use headless browsers only when content requires JavaScript.

Scale concurrency gradually using async programming. Distribute across multiple servers or cloud functions. Hex Proxies gateway handles proxy management automatically — scaling up just means increasing your bandwidth plan. Monitor requests per second, success rate, and bandwidth consumption.

Scraping publicly available information for research, price comparison, and competitive analysis is generally permissible. Scraping personal data, copyrighted content, or data behind login walls may violate laws. Always review target site terms of service and consult legal counsel.

HTML pages: 50-200 KB each. With images: 500 KB-5 MB. Headless browser with full rendering: 1-10 MB. API endpoints: 1-50 KB. Disable image loading in headless browsers when you only need text data.

Yes, with rotating proxies each request gets a different IP, so activity on one site does not affect access to another. Rotating residential proxies are ideal for multi-site scraping because constant IP rotation prevents behavioral profiling.

Use sticky sessions by including a session parameter in your proxy configuration. Log in through the proxy, then maintain the same session for subsequent requests. Use a headless browser for complex login flows. Only scrape accounts and data you are authorized to access.

At minimum: User-Agent (rotate between common browsers), Accept, Accept-Language, Accept-Encoding, and Connection. Optionally include Referer and DNT. Avoid default tool user agents like python-requests. Rotate user agents alongside proxy rotation.