web scraping

Guys, I’ve been getting absolutely crushed lately. I’ve been running cross-border e-commerce price monitoring, tracking thousands of SKUs every day. Used to rely on datacenter proxies, but as soon as the QPS went up it was constant 403s and captchas. Hitting 60% success rate was already...

Been building a RAG pipeline that needs fresh web pages in real time. Turns out the model isn’t the biggest bottleneck — the real choke point is how to reliably get clean, unblocked public content. Started with datacenter IPs and got blocked by various protections pretty quickly. Switching to...

Ребята, в последнее время мне приходилось очень туго. Я занимаюсь мониторингом цен в сфере трансграничной электронной коммерции и ежедневно отслеживаю тысячи товарных позиций (SKU). Раньше использовал прокси из дата-центров, но стоило увеличить частоту запросов (QPS), как начинались сплошные...

I’ve been running a batch of multi-country data collection jobs. The proxy pools I used before have been declining in quality, and block rates on some sites have clearly gone up. Recently tried Helodata — mixing residential + ISP. Success rate is noticeably higher than before. Pay-per-GB...

Over the past few months I’ve been running tasks that require real-time scraping of public web pages. I’ve found that proxy quality directly impacts the stability of the entire pipeline. Tried a few providers before — some had heavily polluted IPs, others looked cheap but wasted a lot of...