Web scraping lets you automatically collect data from websites, but there’s a catch: most sites will block you after just a few requests. The solution is proxy servers, which act as intermediaries between your scraper and the target website, rotating your IP address with each request so you appear as multiple different visitors instead of one bot hammering their server.
Key Takeaway: Proxies rotate your IP address so websites don’t detect and block your scraping activity, letting you gather data continuously without interruption.
Think of it like shopping in disguise. If you walked into the same store 500 times in…