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Run your own scrapers on a network we own, or send us a URL and get the data back. Either way, blocked requests are free.
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For web scraping at scale, Datafuel offers two paths: residential proxies that put your own scraper on a household IP, or the Unlocker API that returns any page as Markdown or JSON with CAPTCHAs handled. Both bill only successful requests.
Why web scraping is hard to do at scale
Scraping in 2026 is a different job from scraping in 2020. Over half of all page requests are now automated, and sites respond accordingly: the number of commercial bot-management vendors has nearly doubled in four years.
IP quality is no longer enough. A clean residential IP with a default browser fingerprint passes roughly a third of requests on a protected site; the same IP with realistic fingerprinting and human-paced behaviour passes almost all of them. The difference is engineering most teams do not want to own.
And then there is maintenance. A layout change breaks a scraper. Multiply by a hundred targets and the team spends its time fixing extractors instead of using the data.
How Datafuel handles web scraping
Two paths, one platform, one balance.
If you run your own scrapers, Datafuel's proxy networks give you residential, mobile, ISP and datacenter IPs on infrastructure we own, with targeting down to city, ASN and OS, and traffic that never expires.
If you would rather not, the Unlocker API takes a URL and returns the data. Network selection, rendering, fingerprinting and CAPTCHAs are handled inside the request. You are charged only when a page comes back.
Keep your collector and fix the network, or hand us the URL. Same IPs, same billing rule.
| Residential proxies | Unlocker API | |
|---|---|---|
| You bring | your own scraper and parser | a URL, and a schema if you want JSON |
| You get | the raw page from a local residential IP | Markdown or structured JSON, past any protection |
| Targeting | country · region · city · ASN · OS | country and city, per request |
| CAPTCHAs | handled by your scraper | handled inside the request |
| Billing | per GB, traffic never expires | per successful request, credits never expire |
| Best when | you already run a working scraper | you 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 web scraping
Same price on every use case. Failed requests are free and purchased traffic never expires.
- 46M+ consent-based household IPs
- Rotating or sticky up to 24h
- Region, city, ASN targeting
- HTTP(S) & SOCKS5
- Traffic never expires
- Any page past any protection
- CAPTCHAs handled inside the request
- Markdown, JSON, HTML or screenshot
- Failed requests are free
- MCP ready
How it works
- 01Choose your path: your scraper with our proxies, or our API with your URL.
- 02Send requests. Datafuel picks the network, renders where needed and clears protection.
- 03Data returns. Failed requests cost nothing.
What to watch for
- Start with the cheapest network that works. Datacenter for open sites, residential for protected ones, mobile only where nothing else passes.
- Respect rate limits and terms where your use case requires it; the compliance mode helps with that.
- Store what you collect responsibly. Pages can contain personal data.
Web scraping — frequently asked questions
Should I use proxies or the API?
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Can I target a specific city or carrier?
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