Proxy Server recommendations for Web Scraping

To scrape data anonymously and to avoid getting your IP blocked by web servers, it is recommended that you use proxy servers to access internet during web scraping. Most web scraping software allow you to use proxy servers for web scraping.

Free v/s Paid Proxies

There are free as well as paid proxy servers available in the internet. Free proxies are slow, unreliable and insecure. Using them often result in incomplete data during web scraping. For this reason, we do not recommend using free proxies for web scraping.

Proxy Recommendations

The following are the proxy services which we recommend for web scraping and data extraction. These services work well with WebHarvy as well as with other web scraping software.

  1. 1. Bright Data

    Bright data (formerly Luminati Networks) is a proxy network that requires consent from its residential peers, has tight compliance procedures for its customers and serves Fortune 500 enterprises. You can easily switch between shared proxies, data-center private proxy, residential IPs and mobile IPs. IPs are available in every country, city, ASN and carrier with 99.9% uptime.

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  2. 2. Private Proxy

    Private Proxies provide HTTP(S) anonymous proxies which allows you to hide your computer's IP address by entering them in your Browser or Web Scraping Software. Only private dedicated proxies from a unique pool of proxies are provided. They offer a free monthly swap option whereby you can resolve blocked proxies.

    PrivateProxy.me

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  3. 3. Trusted Proxies

    Trusted Proxies provide high-speed reliable proxies for web scraping and SERP (Google, Bing etc.) extraction.

    Trusted Proxies

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  4. 4. Looking for a free proxy server?

    When you use a proxy server, your computer, instead of communicating directly with the website, communicates with the proxy server which in turn communicates with the website and relays down its response to you. So, the proxy server becomes a crucial component in your connection which determines the connection speed, security and reliability. Which is why paid proxy servers are recommended. While using free proxy servers you have a higher chance of getting blocked, missing data and aborting the web scraping process. If you still would like to try, please check the following links.

    1. https://iproyal.com/free-proxy-list/
    2. https://geonode.com/free-proxy-list
    3. https://github.com/TheSpeedX/PROXY-List
    4. https://free-proxy-list.net/

Scrape data anonymously using WebHarvy

WebHarvy is an easy to use, visual web scraping software which can scrape data from any website, without limits. WebHarvy can scrape text, images, phone, email/website addresses etc. from multiple pages of websites and save the data in spreadsheet format to files or databases. If you are interested in knowing more, we highly recommend that you download and try the FREE 15 days evaluation version of WebHarvy.