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Vishwas Batra
Vishwas Batra

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Day 4 of building ScrapeForge 🛠️

Day 4 was slow but informative.

I completed the remaining SERP scraping logic and then moved on to implementing proxy rotation. To understand the real cost of free solutions, I decided to test free proxies.

I manually collected around 2000 proxies and wrote a script to validate them. After nearly two hours of testing, only 139 were usable.

This exercise clearly showed why most production systems rely on paid proxy providers.
Lesson learned: free solutions often shift the cost from money to time.

Day 5 will continue from here.

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