Proxies for web scraping

What a web scraping proxy does — and why per‑GB billing punishes scrapers

Websites rate‑limit and block by IP address. A scraper that sends thousands of requests from one datacenter IP is identified within minutes. A scraping proxy puts a real residential or mobile IP in front of every request, so the site sees ordinary visitors from ordinary connections. Spread the work across several proxies and each IP stays under the radar.

Scraping is traffic‑heavy: HTML, images, scripts, API responses. With per‑gigabyte proxy plans the price grows with every page you fetch — a 100 GB crawl costs hundreds of dollars before you have parsed a single row. Socks Market charges per proxy, per day, with unlimited traffic. A proxy that moves 100 GB costs the same as one that moves 100 MB.

Which type to pick: residential (WiFi) proxies for most targets — they are fast, stable and look like a home visitor; mobile (LTE) proxies for the few sites that block everything except carrier IPs. Both are SOCKS5, so they work with curl, Python, Node.js, Scrapy, Playwright, Selenium and any headless browser.

Connect your scraper to a SOCKS5 proxy

Replace HOST, PORT, LOGIN and PASSWORD with the details from the My Proxies page in your account. The socks5h scheme resolves DNS through the proxy, which keeps the target from seeing your real resolver.

# curl
curl -x socks5h://LOGIN:PASSWORD@HOST:PORT https://api.ipify.org
# Python — pip install "requests[socks]"
import requests
proxy = "socks5h://LOGIN:PASSWORD@HOST:PORT"
r = requests.get("https://api.ipify.org", proxies={"http": proxy, "https": proxy}, timeout=30)
print(r.text)
# Node.js — npm install axios socks-proxy-agent
import axios from "axios";
import { SocksProxyAgent } from "socks-proxy-agent";
const agent = new SocksProxyAgent("socks5h://LOGIN:PASSWORD@HOST:PORT");
const { data } = await axios.get("https://api.ipify.org", { httpAgent: agent, httpsAgent: agent });
console.log(data);