6 Best Proxies for Price Monitoring in 2026
Disclosure: Proxying publishes this comparison. We’re one of the 6 providers ranked in it. Every spec below, ours included, came from the vendor’s own current pricing or product page on the date shown. No provider paid for placement, and this piece has no affiliate links. Full ranking method in “How We Selected These,” near the […]
Is Web Scraping Legal? Answer: It Depends
Is web scraping legal? Sometimes. There is no single rule that makes all web scraping legal or illegal. The answer depends on what you access, how you access it, what you collect, and how you use it. Scraping a publicly accessible page is different from accessing a private account or bypassing authentication. Collecting product prices […]
LinkedIn Job Scraping With Python: A Step-by-Step Tutorial
I built my first LinkedIn scraper for a client. They wanted to track hiring trends. They wanted to know which companies were quietly hiring before the news broke. It worked well for four days. Then every request hit a login wall. Even pages that don’t normally need a login started blocking me. That’s when I […]
How to Unblock Steam on Any Network (2026 Guide)
I lost an entire lunch break trying to figure out why Steam wouldn’t load on the wifi. Browser said “connected,” Steam client said nothing at all, just spun on the login screen forever. Turned out the network admins had the whole platform blacklisted at the firewall level, probably to stop people gaming instead of working. […]
Proxies for AI Agents: Managing IP Rotation, Blocks, and Agentic Web Access
Key Takeaways Agentic AI traffic is booming. HUMAN Security’s 2026 State of AI Traffic & Cyberthreat Benchmark Report found agentic traffic grew about 7,851% year over year. Automated traffic now grows roughly 8x faster than human traffic. If your agents browse, research, or buy things on the open web, you’re already part of that growth. […]
Data Mining vs Machine Learning: What’s the Actual Difference?
A few years back, I sat in a meeting where a product manager asked the data team to “just run some machine learning on it” to figure out why churn had spiked the previous quarter. What they actually needed was someone to dig through the historical account data and find the pattern that already existed […]
Amazon Review Scraper: A Beginner’s Guide to Extracting Product Reviews
If you’ve never scraped anything before, “Amazon review scraper” probably sounds more intimidating than it needs to be. It isn’t. By the end of this guide, you’ll understand what one actually does, how to build a simple one yourself, and how to keep it running without getting blocked halfway through. No prior scraping experience required. […]
How to Crawl a Website Without Getting Blocked
Three hundred requests in, my crawler went quiet. Not an error, not a crash, just page after page of the same generic “Access Denied” template where product data used to be. I’d been so focused on the parsing logic that I never stopped to think about how the request itself looked from the other side. […]
HTTP 505 Error Code: What It Means and How to Fix It
I was running a scraper against a client’s site last month when it stopped dead. No data, no timeout. Just a blunt response: HTTP Version Not Supported. Great. I’ve seen enough of these to know what’s going on the second they show up. The HTTP 505 error code turns up in scraping, automation, and API […]
Gemini Web Scraping: A Practical Python Guide
I rebuilt the same scraper three times last year. Not because I wanted to, but because the target site kept shuffling its div classes every few weeks and my CSS selectors kept snapping in half. That’s what pushed me toward Gemini web scraping in the first place. Not hype. Maintenance fatigue. A model that reads […]