
Web Scraping Proxies: Datacenter vs Residential vs Mobile
Datacenter proxies cost under $1 per GB, residential $1.40 to $8. But 1,000 full page loads use about 1.8 GB and the same pages as HTML use 22 MB, so how you fetch decides the bill.
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Datacenter proxies cost under $1 per GB, residential $1.40 to $8. But 1,000 full page loads use about 1.8 GB and the same pages as HTML use 22 MB, so how you fetch decides the bill.

Build an n8n web scraping workflow that runs on a schedule and writes clean rows to Sheets or Supabase. We ran it: 60 rows in 4.3 seconds. Plus the JavaScript trap that returns 'success' with nothing.

Scrape Google Maps for local business leads with Apify: inputs that avoid the 120-place cap, about $5 per 1,000 places with website emails, the free-plan add-on trap, CRM import and GDPR.

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