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As a proud member and the co-founder of the Ethical Web Data Collection Initiative (EWDCI), we’re taking all the necessary steps to ensure our services meet all the highest legality, ethics, ecosystem engagement, and social responsibility standards.

One of the most important steps that allow us to provide high-quality publicly available data collection services is ID verification. It’s a crucial step for users seeking to unlock additional features and targets.

Explore how ID verification can help you access popular target groups, particularly with residential proxies.

Whether you call yourself a seasoned proxy user or just starting to leverage the power of proxies, it's always good to learn a thing or two. And this time, we're talking about backconnect proxies. In short, backconnect proxies allow you to remain anonymous while accessing the internet by constantly rotating your IP address. These proxies are useful for individuals or companies who need to navigate internet restrictions, monitor competitors, or run web scraping tools.

In this guide, we'll explore everything you need to know about backconnect proxies, how they work, and what benefits you're in for. Shall we begin?

Standards are a means to clear and define communication between people and things in the world. For example, the human language, USB sockets on computers, or the fact that you must add cereal before pouring milk. When it comes to computer applications and systems, one standard stands out above the rest as the most popular choice for developers – XML (eXtensible Markup Language). In this article, we’ll explore how you can parse data from XML files using Python’s built-in libraries, see the best methods to do so, and understand the importance of effectively reading information.

CAPTCHAs love to show up right when your scraper's getting somewhere. They exist to sort humans from bots, and if you're seeing them constantly, it's usually triggered by a mix of strict website security policies and a drop in your IP's trust score. That's why CAPTCHA bypass only works long-term if you treat it as a trust fix, not a workaround.

Artificial intelligence is transforming various fields, ushering in new possibilities for automation and efficiency. As one of the leading AI tools, ChatGPT can be especially helpful in the realm of data collection, where it serves as a powerful ally in extracting and parsing information. So, in this blog post, we provide a step-by-step guide to using ChatGPT for web scraping. Additionally, we explore the limitations of using ChatGPT for this purpose and offer an alternative method for scraping the web.

A residential proxy network routes your traffic through real ISP-assigned home IPs. But how routing actually happens, which proxy types you end up using, and how IPs are sourced have a much bigger impact on success rates. This guide breaks down how residential proxy networks work, including ASN-level routing, the different types of IPs, and the protocols they support.

A rotating proxy is a proxy server that automatically assigns a new IP address at regular intervals or after each connection. In this guide, we'll delve into how rotating proxies work, the different types available, and the most common use cases where they offer a clear advantage.

Residential and datacenter proxies both act as intermediaries that hide your real IP address, allowing you to access restricted websites and geo-blocked content. However, they differ in IP origin, stability, speed, and how websites perceive them. This residential vs. datacenter proxies guide breaks down their key differences.

Scraping projects usually start simple: a Python script, the Beautiful Soup parsing library, and a list of URLs. That's enough for small jobs. Once you're past a few hundred thousand pages, you start hitting problems: timeouts, IP bans, parsers returning empty fields because someone changed a div to a span. At that point, it's not a coding problem anymore, it's an infrastructure problem. This guide covers the architecture, proxy management, anti-bot evasion, pipelines, costs, compliance, where the industry is headed, and build vs. buy decisions.