web scraping

Been messing around with a couple of autonomous agents that need to pull fresh pages for RAG. Datacenter proxies get flagged way too fast, so I moved the residential traffic over to Helodata last week. So far the sessions look cleaner and I’m not hitting as many CAPTCHA walls. Still figuring out...

When I started working on a data collection project, I thought the biggest challenge would be optimizing the code. Later, I realized that the proxy layer was often the real bottleneck. The same scraper can perform very differently depending on the proxy quality: Different success rates...