Proxy vs Reverse Proxy in Web Crawling Infrastructure
Forward proxies route your outbound traffic; reverse proxies block inbound access to servers.
Forward proxies route your outbound traffic; reverse proxies block inbound access to servers.
Keep scrapers running by catching silent failures before they corrupt your data.
Agents need scraping APIs designed for their failure modes, not developer-friendly DIY tools.
Stale caches make agents answer with false confidence.
Event-driven triggers keep AI agents reasoning about current data instead of stale snapshots.
Cleaning HTML for LLM processing cuts token usage by 80 percent and reduces hallucinations.
Clean HTML before sending it to an LLM to save tokens and prevent hallucinations.
Choose the right tool based on your constraints, not ideology.
Legal risk from scraping stacks differently depending on what data you take and how you access it.
Authentication and personal data are the true legal dividing lines in scraping.
Library choice matters less than matching your fetch, parse, render.
Parallel requests matter more than bandwidth—pick the right concurrency model for your workload.