Residential Proxy
A residential proxy routes your web requests through an IP address that belongs to a real home internet connection — the kind an ISP like Comcast or Vodafone hands out to an ordinary household. To the website receiving the request, it looks like a genuine person browsing from their living room, because technically the address is one.
That is the contrast with datacenter proxies, whose IPs trace back to server farms and cloud providers. Datacenter IPs are cheap and fast but easy for a site to recognize and block in bulk. Residential IPs are scarcer and pricier, but they blend in, so requests routed through them are far less likely to be treated as automated traffic.
Providers build residential proxy pools from large numbers of consenting devices, and requests are usually distributed across them so each address only carries light traffic. The result is data collection that looks like a scattering of normal visitors rather than one machine hammering a single server. For a scraper, that reliability is the whole point — the closer a request resembles routine human browsing, the more consistently it comes back with data instead of a block.
What it means for 1Scrape users
You never have to think about residential proxies — 1Scrape handles the network layer so runs come back complete and reliable. The benefit shows up as results, not settings: a hashtag pull or a Google Maps sweep finishes cleanly instead of stalling on blocks, and you spend your time filtering the CSV, not sourcing and managing an IP pool.
Frequently asked questions
Are residential proxies legal?
Using proxies is legal in itself — they are a standard networking tool for privacy, testing, and reliable data collection. What matters is what you collect and how you use it. 1Scrape only gathers public data, and you are responsible for using it lawfully. This is general information, not legal advice.
Do I have to pay for residential proxies separately?
Not with 1Scrape. The network side is bundled into the flat rate of $8 per 1,000 results — there is no proxy subscription to buy or top up on the side.