Residential Proxy

A residential proxy routes internet traffic through real household IP addresses (assigned by ISPs to home users), making requests appear as ordinary human browsing.

Websites are much less likely to block residential IPs than datacenter IPs. They are used by scrapers to bypass geo-restrictions and bot detection on heavily protected sites.

Related Terms

Proxy Rotation

Proxy rotation is the practice of cycling through multiple IP addresses when making scraping requests, so the target server sees different IPs instead of repeated requests from the same source.

Anti-Bot Protection

Anti-bot protection refers to the suite of server-side and client-side defenses websites use to detect and block automated traffic.