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About Web Scraping Proxies
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Types of Web Scraping Proxies
Data Center Proxies
These proxies are from cloud service providers and are sometimes flagged as many people use them, but since they are cheaper, a pool of proxies can be brought for web scraping activities.
Residential IP Proxy
These proxies contain IP addresses from local ISP, so the webmaster cannot detect if it is a scraper or a real person browsing the website. They are very expensive compared to Data Center Proxies and may cause legal consents as the owner isn’t fully aware if you are using their IP for web scraping purposes.
Mobile IP Proxy
These proxies are IPs of private mobile devices and work similarly to Residential IP Proxies. They are very expensive and may cause legal consents as the device owner isn’t fully aware if you are using their GSM network for web scraping since they are provided by mobile network operators.
ISP Proxy
It is Static residential proxies, these are hosted by the servers which are located in data centers and used to identify the real users. ISP proxies can be combination of Datacenter and Residential proxies.
