Proxies for web scraping, a new IP on every request

Why scrapers get blocked, and how rotation fixes it

Almost every anti-bot system starts with one signal: how many requests are coming from a single IP. Send a few hundred page loads from one address in a short window and you hit a rate limit, a CAPTCHA wall, or an outright ban. The fix is not to scrape slower. The fix is to spread the same volume across many IPs so no single one looks abnormal.

That is exactly what a rotating proxy does. You point your crawler at one gateway endpoint and we assign a different exit IP to each request. From the target site's point of view, your thousand requests look like a thousand different visitors instead of one aggressive bot. You never build rotation logic, maintain IP lists, or retire dead addresses, because the gateway handles all of it.

For the hardest targets, IP type matters as much as rotation. Sites that block obvious server ranges still let through ordinary home and carrier connections, which is why residential and mobile IPs get past defenses that datacenter ranges cannot. Because all four types live in one plan, you can start cheap on datacenter and step up to residential only on the domains that need it.

Match the proxy type to the target

There is no single best proxy for scraping. The right choice depends on how aggressively the target defends itself:

• Datacenter for open APIs, sitemaps and lightly defended sites where speed and cost per request matter most.
• Residential for ecommerce, travel, search and any site that filters server IP ranges or fingerprints heavily.
• Mobile for the toughest mobile-first platforms, where carrier-grade NAT makes a single IP look like many real users.
• IPv6 for huge, cheap address space on targets that accept IPv6 traffic.

Mixing types is normal. A typical pipeline scrapes the bulk of pages over fast datacenter IPs and routes only the few domains that block them through residential or mobile IPs, keeping your average cost low while still getting the data.

Rotating versus sticky for crawlers

Most scraping wants a new IP per request, because each page is independent and you want maximum IP spread. But some flows need the same IP for several steps in a row: logging in, paginating behind a session, or adding items to a cart before reading a price. For those, a sticky session holds one IP for a set duration so the site keeps treating you as the same visitor. You get both modes on the same account, so a single crawler can rotate for listing pages and stay sticky for the steps that need continuity.