Distributed scraping
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Web scraping is met with resistance from website owners, who deploy various antibot mechanisms to prevent automated access.
Many antibot mechanisms blacklist known hosting provider IPs (AWS, GCP, DigitalOcean, etc.), because legitimate human users rarely browse websites from data centers.
Hosting provider-based scraping services face issues like:
Blocking: Many sites block IPs from hosting providers.
Shared IP reputation: Even if your scraper behaves ethically, bad actors using the same provider can lead to IP bans.
Easily detectable patterns: Requests from hosting providers often lack natural browsing behavior. This makes them easier to flag.
High latency & costs: Cloud-based scraping requires expensive proxies or VPNs to mimic residential traffic.
Decentralized Physical Infrastructure Networks (DePIN) provide an alternative to traditional cloud-based scraping. They consist of distributed, user-operated nodes that offer infrastructure services in a decentralized way.
This is where UpRock's DePIN network helps your company build a scraping solution superior to others.
Advantages of using UpRock's DePIN over traditional scraping solutions are as follows:
Residential IPs: Unlike cloud hosting providers, UpRock's DePIN infra (Prism) requests through real edge devices, making them harder to detect.
Geographically distributed: UpRock nodes in a DePIN network are spread across different regions. This reduces the risk of IP bans and enabling localized scraping.
More anonymity: Since traffic originates from various devices rather than centralized data centers, tracking and blocking individual scrapers is more difficult.
Cost efficiency: UpRock's DePIN infrastructure ischeaper than traditional proxy solutions because they leverage idle computing resources from hundreds of thousands of participants.
UpRock's solutions are not only for end users, but also for companies leveraging their scraping platform. By connecting your web scraping solution with UpRock, you can bypass many limitations emposed by platforms and CDNs like Cloudflare.
Get in touch with us now to discuss your needs.
