A practical guide to large-scale data extraction using proxy rotation, smart request management, and anti-detection techniques.

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Introduction

Scraping 100 pages is easy. Scraping 100,000? That's where most scrapers fail — blocked IPs, CAPTCHAs, rate limits, and bans.

Whether you're building a price monitoring system, collecting training data for ML models, or tracking competitor inventory across thousands of product pages — the challenges are the same. Your scraper works perfectly in development, then falls apart at scale.

The root cause is almost always the same: your scraper doesn't look like a real user.…