There are a number of reasons why proxies are important for data web scraping:
1.Using a proxy (especially a pool of proxies - more on this later) allows you to crawl a website much more reliably. Significantly reducing the chances that your spider will get banned or blocked.
2.Using a proxy enables you to make your request from a specific geographical region or device (mobile IPs for example) which enables you to see the specific content that the website displays for that given location or device. This is extremely valuable when scraping product data from online retailers.
3.Using a proxy pool allows you to make a higher volume of requests to a target website without being banned.
4.Using a proxy allows you to get around blanket IP bans some websites impose. Example: it is common for websites to block requests from AWS because there is a track record of some malicious actors overloading websites with large volumes of requests using AWS servers.
5.Using a proxy enables you to make unlimited concurrent sessions to the same or different websites.
There are two main benefits to using proxies for your web scraping project:
1.Hiding your source machine’s IP address
2.Getting past rate limits on the target site
