Proxy

Datacenter proxies: when to use them and how to make the most of them

The ultimate guide to datacenter proxies. Learn how to fix common problems with datacenter proxies, use cookies and headers, and create human-like proxy sessions that are hard to block.

15 min read Jan 23, 2023

Web Scraping

What's the future of web scraping in 2023?

Natasha Lekh, Petr Pátek

Let’s see what web scraping was like in 2022 from technical, legal, business, and trending perspectives, as well as try predicting what 2023 holds.

18 min read Jan 20, 2023

Proxy

The 7 best proxy providers for web scraping in 2023

Theo Vasilis

Improve your web scraping performance with these top 7 proxy providers.

5 min read Jan 6, 2023

Open Source

Web scraping: how to solve 403 errors

Natasha Lekh

Why am I getting 403 error status code when web scraping? And what can I do to make it vanish? 3 answers: user agents, HTTP headers, and proxies.

13 min read Dec 28, 2022

Proxy

7 best proxy scraper services in 2022

Dávid Lukáč

Finding the right proxy for your use case can be a real challenge. Proxy scraping tools take this burden off you by extracting and testing IP addresses from free proxy lists available online.

6 min read Jul 5, 2022

Tutorial

How to scrape free proxy lists and find working proxies

Matt Stephens

Get a dynamic list of usable proxies. Proxy Scraper will automatically test and output working public proxies from 17 free proxy websites and APIs.

5 min read Mar 1, 2022

Proxy

4 ways to authenticate a proxy in Puppeteer with Headless Chrome in 2022

Matt Stephens

Quick guide to 4 different fast and effective (and very simple) ways to help you authenticate your proxy in Puppeteer with Headless Chrome.

5 min read Feb 18, 2022

Proxy

What are the different types of proxies?

Dávid Lukáč

What’s the difference between a residential and datacenter proxy, or a forward and reverse proxy? Learn all about the various types of proxies and how you can differentiate them based on location of IP address, direction of traffic flow, service, and level of anonymity.

5 min read Feb 8, 2022

Proxy

How anti-scraping protections work and how they get bypassed

Percival Villalva

Websites have protections to stop malicious bots. But not all bots are created equal. Find out about the methods used to avoid being blocked while scraping the web legally and ethically.

9 min read Feb 1, 2022

Proxy

How do proxies affect digital freedom?

Mariachiara Faraon

Proxies and VPNs can affect internet transparency in many ways. They can unlock geo-restricted content, prevent discrimination, and grant digital freedom under oppressive regimes. Learn more about online openness and censorship.

5 min read Jan 26, 2022

Proxy

What is a proxy server?

Mariachiara Faraon, Theo Vasilis, Dávid Lukáč

Find out everything you need to learn about proxies, what they are, how they work, how to get one, and how Apify Proxy can help, with this quick guide to proxy servers.

5 min read Jan 19, 2022

Tutorial

Tunneling arbitrary protocols over HTTP proxy with static IP address in Node.js

Jarda Hejlek

How to connect from a Node.js application running on a server with a random IP address to an external service protected by a firewall. Learn how to connect from a Node.js application running on a server with a random IP address to an external service protected by a firewall that only allows access

5 min read May 2, 2021