Data Solutions & Practices
Data is the fundamental resource that powers business operations and drives strategic decisions. We cover modern data practices and the tools, platforms, and approaches organizations use to manage, transform, and get value from their data.
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How to Use SOCKS5 Proxy: Mac, Windows & Mobile
Entering a host and port for SOCKS5 in Windows or iPhone settings can cause loss of internet access. The operating system does not know the endpoint uses SOCKS5. A SOCKS server needs a SOCKS request. An HTTP proxy needs an HTTP request or a CONNECT tunnel. Sending the wrong request type will fail. Some platforms…
Proxy Cost Calculator: Discounts & Prices
Residential proxies typically range from $3 to $15 per GB, while datacenter proxies start at approximately $0.50 per IP. We evaluated providers with volumes from 10GB to 10TB. Below is the average proxy pricing by type: Lines higher up represent cheaper prices (more data per $1). Decodo offers the lowest cost across all residential volume…
No-Code Financial Data Scraping: Tools & Compliance Tips
While official financial data providers do offer APIs, these are often limited in scope, access, or flexibility for real-time or niche data needs. Financial data scraping has become a common approach to collecting such information, typically using technologies such as web scrapers, headless browsers, and open-source crawlers, which can be paired with proxy/unblocking services when…
How to Bypass an IP Ban: Methods Compared
An IP ban blocks requests from your IP address, so the fix is to access the site from a different IP address or remove the cause. Changing your IP is not illegal in itself, but bypassing a ban can breach a site’s terms of service, so confirm your use case is legitimate first. Residential proxies…
Best Rotating Proxies: Residential & Mobile
We benchmarked major rotating proxies (residential, datacenter, and mobile) using over 200,000 requests, including 100,000 parallel requests, for major e-commerce and social media sites. See the top solutions based on our tests and follow the links to learn more from these vendors: To avoid detection, use IP signatures that resemble those of genuine mobile users.…
7 Best Amazon Scrapers Ranked by Performance
Amazon’s anti-scraping technology keeps getting harder to bypass. To find out which tools actually hold up, we benchmarked the leading 5 Amazon scraper APIs over 2,750 requests across 11 Amazon domains, scoring every provider on success rate and end-to-end completion time. Read Amazon scraping benchmark methodology for more details about our testing process. You can…
Best Twitter (X) Scrapers: Benchmarked
We benchmarked the top Twitter (X) scrapers across 1000 URLs, for a total of 5000 requests. To help you choose the right tool for your Twitter scraping projects, we have categorized the top performers below. Since all providers reached 100% success rate, we compared their completion time. See our benchmark methodology for more details. When…
We Tested the Best SOCKS5 Proxies
SOCKS5 providers differ in which proxy types carry it, which ports they allow, and whether UDP works. We benchmarked the top SOCKS5 provider against Amazon, Bing, eBay, and YouTube on residential IPs. A request is successful if the page loads fully. A 200 server response does not count. The full methodology is below. * Residential…
We Benchmarked the Best Datacenter Proxy Providers
We evaluated top datacenter proxy providers with 15,000 requests to assess speed, reliability, and cost across search, e-commerce, and social media sites. Review the performance of leading datacenter proxies by success rate and response time. Results update every 15 minutes for major sites. More info in the methodology. The table includes both shared datacenter proxies…
Best TikTok Scrapers: Scrape Video & Profile Data
A TikTok scraper collects public data from TikTok, including video metadata, profile details, engagement metrics, and comments, without using TikTok’s official API. We tested Bright Data, Apify, and Decodo by running 500 unique TikTok video URLs per provider. We measured two dimensions: validation success rate and the breadth of available metadata fields. See our methodology…