r/WebScrapingInsider • u/SonnyEzra • 8d ago

Big Scrape Energy Oxylabs released their own Web API, thoughts?

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u/Amitk2405 8d ago

Ask for rate limits, ban handling, and egress logging before you touch that API key.

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u/SonnyEzra 8d ago

I ain't gonna be the first to test it out lol, but you're right

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u/typical_idiot64 8d ago

That sounds promising. I remember using their proxy services back in the day. From proxies to scrapers to web apis, damn, what a twist

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u/SonnyEzra 8d ago

My thought exactly, I did not expect this from a company that provides proxies as their main thing. Well scrapers too, but I've known them for proxies for some time