Best Practices for Using Proxy with Scrapy: How to Avoid Getting Blocked?

Using proxy with scrapy is a game of patience, my friend. 😅

I’ve had the best luck with rotating residential proxies and setting a random user-agent for each request. Oh, and don’t forget to handle CAPTCHAs—some sites are brutal.

I use Oxylabs for proxies. It’s not cheap, but it’s rock-solid.