How I scraped 4M product pages in 36 hours without getting my IPs burned
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Last year I had to pull 4M product pages from 28 retailers in 36 hours for a price-intelligence client. On hour six I was already losing half my requests to bot protection. The classic stack didn't survive contact: Scrapy, datacenter proxies, max concurrency. TLS fingerprinting got us first, then C…
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- 2026-08-27 02:40 · DEV Community — AI
How I scraped 4M product pages in 36 hours without getting my IPs burned