--- title: Why Your Web Scraper Gets Blocked (And How to Fix It) description: A short demo shows why scrapers get IP-blocked after a limited number of requests and how routing traffic through a residential proxy service avoids the block.... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/why-your-web-scraper-gets-blocked-and-how-to-fix-it--k1kjk0gvn twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Why Your Web Scraper Gets Blocked (And How to Fix It) | daily.dev og:description: A short demo shows why scrapers get IP-blocked after a limited number of requests and how routing traffic through a residential proxy service avoids the block.... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/why-your-web-scraper-gets-blocked-and-how-to-fix-it--k1kjk0gvn og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/K1KjK0GVN.png og:image:alt: Why Your Web Scraper Gets Blocked (And How to Fix It) og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Why Your Web Scraper Gets Blocked (And How to Fix It) **[freeCodeCamp](https://daily.dev/sources/freecodecamp)** · 1 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A short demo shows why scrapers get IP-blocked after a limited number of requests and how routing traffic through a residential proxy service avoids the block. Using a Node.js project scraping product prices from UK, Germany, and US stores as an example, the walkthrough adds credentials and country suffixes from Data Impulse to rotate exit IPs per request, priced from $1 per gigabyte, letting the scraper run without hitting rate limits. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### Why does my Node.js web scraper get blocked after a certain number of requests? Scrapers get blocked because sites detect repeated requests coming from the same IP address and enforce a request limit, cutting off access after a threshold like around 10 requests. Rotating the IP address for each request avoids triggering this limit, since the site no longer sees a pattern of many requests from one source. _Anyone debugging blocked scrapers can compare proxy and rate-limit fixes discussed around daily.dev._ ### How do residential proxies help avoid getting blocked while web scraping? Residential proxies rotate the exit IP address for each request, so a scraper appears to come from a different location every time instead of one flagged IP. Providers like DataImpulse let you target a specific country by appending a country suffix to the proxy login, and the gateway then selects an exit region and rotates automatically per request. _Developers weighing proxy providers for scraping projects follow pricing and setup comparisons on daily.dev._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Mastering Web Scraping at Scale: How IPHTML Solves IP Blocks, CAPTCHAs, and Geo-Restrictions](https://daily.dev/posts/mastering-web-scraping-at-scale-how-iphtml-solves-ip-blocks-captchas-and-geo-restrictions-jqvzwvxxv) · Medium · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Modern Web Scraping: How to Actually Bypass Anti-Bot Systems](https://daily.dev/posts/modern-web-scraping-how-to-actually-bypass-anti-bot-systems-if8eoonei) · SitePoint · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Building Stable Web Data Collectors in Node.js](https://daily.dev/posts/building-stable-web-data-collectors-in-node-js-ccrgevuvy) · SitePoint · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [How to Bypass Anti-Bot Walls for Production-Ready Apps](https://daily.dev/posts/how-to-bypass-anti-bot-walls-for-production-ready-apps-22kmlotbh) · Medium · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - 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