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Signals you can act on, from a feed you can audit

Complete, consistent collection from protected sources, on the cadence the signal needs, with a lineage your compliance team can sign off on.

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A signal you can act on, with a lineage you can show.

Key takeaway

Alternative data feeds need pages collected on a schedule without gaps. Datafuel offers residential proxies for the collectors you already run, or the Unlocker API that returns each page as clean data. Only successful requests are billed.

Why alternative data feeds is hard to do at scale

Web-scraped data is now the largest single category of alternative data spending. It is also the one most likely to fail quietly.

The failure looks like this. A source starts rate-limiting or blocking. The scraper keeps running, returns fewer pages, and the feed keeps updating. Nothing errors. The time series just gets thinner, and every signal built on it drifts. By the time someone notices, decisions have already been made on it.

Freshness is the second problem. Pricing and news signals decay in hours; a feed that arrives a day late is history, not data. And diligence on data lineage is now standard in the mandates funds operate under. A dataset you cannot explain the origin of is a dataset you cannot use.

How Datafuel handles alternative data feeds

Datafuel collects from protected sources through networks it owns, so coverage does not degrade when a site tightens its defences. Requests that fail are free, which means a coverage drop shows up in the bill and the success-rate dashboard, not silently in the data.

Collection runs on the cadence you set, from hourly pricing pulls to weekly job-posting sweeps. And every residential IP is sourced by consent and documented under the GDPR, so when diligence asks where the data came from, the answer is written down.

Signal half-life
Two paths

Keep your collector and fix the network, or hand us the URL. Same IPs, same billing rule.

Residential proxiesUnlocker API
You bringyour own scraper and parsera URL, and a schema if you want JSON
You getthe raw page from a local residential IPMarkdown or structured JSON, past any protection
Targetingcountry · region · city · ASN · OScountry and city, per request
CAPTCHAshandled by your scraperhandled inside the request
Billingper GB, traffic never expiresper successful request, credits never expire
Best whenyou already run a working scraperyou want pages without maintaining a parser

Many teams use both: the API for the pages that block, proxies for the collectors they already run.

Products for alternative data feeds

Same price on every use case. Failed requests are free and purchased traffic never expires.

If you run your own scraperResidential Proxies $4.50per GB46M+ consent-based household IPs, 195+ countries, city and ASN targeting.
  • 46M+ consent-based household IPs
  • Rotating or sticky up to 24h
  • Region, city, ASN targeting
  • HTTP(S) & SOCKS5
  • Traffic never expires
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If you want clean data backUnlocker API $0.042per 1KAny page past any protection, returned as Markdown or structured JSON.
  • Any page past any protection
  • CAPTCHAs handled inside the request
  • Markdown, JSON, HTML or screenshot
  • Failed requests are free
  • MCP ready
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How it works

  1. 01Define your sources, schema and cadence.
  2. 02You run the collection on your schedule, with the proxy tier and rendering set per source.
  3. 03Structured data lands in your warehouse or bucket, with success rate per source reported alongside it.
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What to watch for

  • Match cadence to the signal. Collecting job postings hourly wastes budget; collecting prices weekly wastes the signal.
  • Normalise at the edge. Field names, currencies and formats differ between sources; clean before the data reaches the model.
  • Collect public data only and strip personal data you do not need. Lineage documentation is easier to produce if there is less to explain.

Alternative data feeds — frequently asked questions

Can I see coverage per source?
Yes. Success rate, cost and request volume are reported per domain in the dashboard.
How do you handle sources that change layout?
Extraction logic is regenerated when a source changes, with the failed requests refunded in the meantime.
Can data go straight into Snowflake or S3?
Not directly yet. Results come back from the API, as a task or a job you poll, and your pipeline loads them into storage or a warehouse.
What can you tell my compliance team about sourcing?
Residential IPs come from devices whose owners opted in through the Datafuel SDK. ISP and datacenter ranges are on infrastructure Datafuel owns. Documentation is available on request.
Do you offer this as a managed feed?
Ask us. For defined source sets we can run collection and deliver the dataset on a schedule.
Sources. Figures on this page come from 2026 reports by Cloudflare, HUMAN Security, Neudata, PromptCloud, Nasdaq, Forrester, MarqVision, Bitsight and Kadoa.Last updated .
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