To put it simply residential proxies are proxies that allow your scrapers to appear to come from a residential address in a specific geographic location.
This can be useful to access data that is locked to a location, or where data centre IPs are being blocked/banned.
Using residential proxies with Zyte is as setting a variable in a config, or even easier in Zyte API our AI will even do this for you.
Residential proxies are significantly more expensive than regualar proxies, and as such you should only use them when they are absolutly needed.
That is why we made Zyte API always try to use the cheapest anti-ban tech, tools and techniques possible to be lean and save you money.
Dedicated residential proxies are great at helping gather data from domains with stricter thresholds towards bots and tasks that require location-specific IPs. But not all web scraping projects need residential proxies. Most of the times smart rotating datacenter IP proxies work just the same and give the cost benefit. In these cases, all you need is a smart IP rotation service like Zyte Smart Proxy Manager.Residential proxies are significantly more expensive than regualar proxies, and as such you should only use them when they are absolutly needed.
That is why we made Zyte API always try to use the cheapest anti-ban tech, tools and techniques possible to be lean and save you money.