Craigslist Proxies

Craigslist proxies that keep working

Craigslist is organised entirely by city and bans repeat automated requests quickly. Rotating residential addresses spread your requests across ordinary home connections so collection keeps running, with country targeting when the data you need is regional.

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Why Craigslist needs rotating addresses

Each city has its own subdomain and its own listings, so aggregating across markets means many requests across many regions. Craigslist is unusually quick to block an address that polls, which makes rotation less optional here than almost anywhere else.

The regional dimension

Listings turn over fast, so useful collection means checking often. That frequency is precisely what triggers blocks from a fixed address.

Rotating or sticky for this target

Rotating is essential here rather than optional. Craigslist blocks repeat requests from one address faster than almost any other target, so a fresh IP per request is the baseline.

Practical notes

Work city by city rather than crawling broadly. Each subdomain is effectively a separate site, and pacing per city keeps the request rate per address low enough to stay under the threshold.

One gateway host over standard HTTPS and SOCKS5, authenticated by IP whitelist or user and password. Point your existing scraper at it and nothing else changes. The setup guide covers the common tools.

Where to go next

If you are working across more than one target, these cover the same ground from a different angle.

  • All proxies by site, the full list grouped by the kind of work rather than the brand
  • Amazon proxies, another catalogue that prices and stocks differently by region
  • eBay proxies, another catalogue that prices and stocks differently by region
  • Rotating proxies, a new IP per request, which is what a price sweep wants
FAQ

Craigslist proxies FAQ

Why do I need proxies for Craigslist?
Because collection at any useful volume means many requests in a short window, and that pattern is rate limited or blocked when it all comes from one address. Rotating residential IPs spread requests across many ordinary connections.
Are residential proxies better than datacenter for this?
Usually yes for consumer facing sites, because residential addresses belong to real home connections and are treated with less suspicion than commercial server ranges. Datacenter is faster and cheaper where the target does not scrutinise the network.
Can I choose the country?
Yes. Country targeting is available, which matters here because catalogues, pricing and rankings frequently differ by market.
Rotating or sticky sessions?
Rotating gives a new IP on every request, which suits broad collection. Sticky holds one address for a session, which suits multi step flows that must look like one visitor. Both are on the same gateway.
How much does it cost?
Plans start at $24.95/mo with bandwidth included rather than metered per gigabyte. On the 25 thread plan that works out at roughly $0.13/GB, against $1.75 to $10.50/GB at metered providers.
Is this allowed?
That depends on the site terms and the law where you operate, and it is your responsibility. Proxies change the address a request comes from. They do not change what you are permitted to do.

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