Why Proxies Are Essential For Web Scraping And Automation

Most scraping projects do not fail because of bad code.
They fail because the internet starts noticing them.

If your scripts keep running into 403s, 429s, CAPTCHAs, unstable sessions, and inconsistent data, the problem may not be your parser at all. It may be your network layer.

In this article, I break down why proxies are one of the most important — and most underestimated — parts of modern web scraping and automation.

https://medium.com/code-your-own-path/why-proxies-are-essential-for-web-scraping-and-automation-c63a1eaa7bee?sk=7ef5acfab928fc90328514b18381aca6