Why Your Web Scraper Gets Blocked (And How to Fix It)
A web scraper that gets blocked after a few requests can often be fixed by routing traffic through a residential proxy with country-specific credentials, which rotates fresh IPs and avoids rate limits while collecting regional product prices.
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- A scraper was blocked after about 10 requests due to rate limiting.
- The project collected product prices from UK, Germany, and US storefronts.
- Adding a residential proxy with country suffixes changed the exit region and rotated IPs.
- The proxy setup allowed all prices to be retrieved without triggering blocks.
TAKEAWAYS
- Residential proxies can help scrapers appear more like normal users.
- Country-specific proxy credentials enable region-targeted scraping.
- Rotating IPs per request reduces the chance of rate-limit blocks.
- Simple configuration changes can dramatically improve scraping reliability.