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...

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I started collecting public web data for model pre-training at the end of last year. At first I went with some cheaper providers. Once concurrency went up, success rates dropped below 60%, and IPs were frequently flagged. After several rounds of switching, things gradually stabilized. I tried...

After the project data volume increased, the proxy pools I was using before started dropping frequently and the success rate kept falling. Retry logic was getting more and more complicated. Recently tried Helodata’s residential proxies. The pool is decent size, supports city-level targeting...

Been messing around with a couple of autonomous agents that need to pull fresh pages for RAG. Datacenter proxies get flagged way too fast, so I moved the residential traffic over to Helodata last week. So far the sessions look cleaner and I’m not hitting as many CAPTCHA walls. Still figuring out...

AI agents are becoming more capable, but one challenge is often overlooked: access to real-world information. When an AI agent needs to collect information from different websites, it faces the same problems as traditional crawlers: * Geographic restrictions * Rate limits * Bot detection...

I have tried several proxy providers over the past few years, and the biggest problems were always the same: unstable connections, poor IP quality, and unexpected blocks. Recently I started using Helodata for some web data projects. What impressed me most was the consistency. The...

Over the past few months I've been working on AI data collection and web scraping projects, and honestly, finding a reliable proxy provider has been harder than building the scraper itself. I tested several providers, but most of them had one or more of these issues: * IPs getting blocked...

I’ve been working with web data, automation tools, and scraping-related projects for several years. Most of my work involves collecting, processing, and analyzing online data from different sources, so choosing the right proxy provider has always been an important part of my workflow. Over...

I used to think that scaling a web data project was mainly about improving crawler performance and server resources. But after working on larger projects, I realized that network stability can become a much bigger challenge than expected. A crawler can be well optimized, but unstable access...

I’ve recently been working on projects involving automation and data, and I’ve realized that choosing the right proxy solution is far more important than I initially thought. At first, I focused mainly on price, but in practice—especially for long-term projects—stability, speed, and ease of...

Over the past few years, the rapid growth of AI applications has significantly shifted the demand for web data. In the past, teams primarily collected data for SEO, price monitoring, or market research. Today, an increasing number of use cases rely on real-time data access: AI agents...

I have been testing different proxy providers for AI data collection, web automation, and market research projects. Some common issues I experienced with previous providers: * Unstable IP performance * Connection failures under higher concurrency * Limited geo coverage * Slow technical...