Stories from the Web Crawling trenches in bandwidth

Is web scraping free?

Author: Mohan Ganesan

Date: Feb 20, 2024

Web scraping is free initially, but costs may incur for bandwidth, IP blocking, and legal restrictions. Have a plan and budget to scale safely.

ProxyScrape Residential Proxies Alternative - Simplify Web Scraping with ProxiesAPI

Author: Mohan Ganesan

Date: Sep 30, 2023

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