Need Help Using Proxy with Scrapy: Best Practices and Common Pitfalls?

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Wow, thanks so much for all the suggestions! I didn’t expect so many helpful replies.

I’ve already tried Scrapy-Rotating-Proxies based on one of the comments, and it’s working way better than what I was doing before. Still getting a few blocks, but I’ll tweak the delays and user-agents like you all suggested.

Quick question: anyone know if there’s a way to handle CAPTCHAs automatically? I’m hitting a few sites that throw them at me, and it’s slowing things down.

Thanks again, you guys are awesome!

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