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Scraping Techniques
Verified Bots: How Googlebot Proves It's Googlebot
Anyone can put Googlebot in a User-Agent string, which is why the good-bot ecosystem rests on a verification step most developers have never implemented. This post explains forward-confirmed reverse DNS and exactly why the round trip is required, the published IP range files and their freshness tradeoff, how the same pattern works at Bing and Apple, and what CDN-level verified-bot programmes changed for everyone.
August 12, 2026 · 8 min read
Tool Guides
13 Proxy Scrapers & Free Proxy Lists (2026)
Aug 11, 2026 · 14 min read
Tool Guides
Use Our Proxies With ProxyTool in Any Application — Meet the New Proxifier Alternative
Jul 23, 2026 · 7 min read
Proxy Fundamentals
Parsing NEXT_DATA and JSON-LD: The Clean Way to Extract Structured Data
Jul 22, 2026 · 7 min read
Proxy Fundamentals
Respecting robots.txt and Crawl-Delay: Ethical Scraping That Still Scales
Jul 20, 2026 · 7 min read
Proxy Fundamentals
Read Timeout vs Connect Timeout: Tuning Scraper Timeouts
Jul 17, 2026 · 6 min read
Proxy Fundamentals
What Your IP Reveals: ASN, Reputation & How Geolocation Databases Work
Jul 13, 2026 · 7 min read
Proxy Fundamentals
WebRTC Leaks: How Your Real IP Escapes the Proxy
Jul 8, 2026 · 6 min read
Proxy Fundamentals
DNS Leaks and Proxies: Causes, Detection & Prevention
Jul 7, 2026 · 6 min read
Proxy Fundamentals
How Residential Proxy Networks Actually Work: Peer-Sourced IPs Explained
Jun 26, 2026 · 7 min read
Scraping Techniques
HTTP/2 and HTTP/3 Fingerprinting: The Layer Above TLS
Jun 24, 2026 · 8 min read
Proxy Fundamentals
The HTTP CONNECT Method: How HTTPS Proxying Actually Works
Jun 22, 2026 · 7 min read
Proxy Fundamentals
Residential Proxies Explained: How They Work, Benefits & Providers
Jun 19, 2026 · 8 min read
