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I slowed my scraper down 10x and it finally stopped getting banned

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Faster is not better. I spent two weeks squeezing every millisecond out of my Playwright scraper, and every speedup bought me a new IP ban. The fix was throttling it down to a tenth of the speed — bans dropped to zero. The number that made me stop and re-read my logs I was running a headless Playwr…

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  1. 2026-10-01 17:06 · DEV Community — AI
    I slowed my scraper down 10x and it finally stopped getting banned

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