Introduction to Residential Proxies

ZenRows® provides an extensive residential proxy service that includes a pool of over 55 million residential IPs from more than 190 countries. Our premium residential proxies deliver 99.9% uptime and an average response time of 0.35 seconds, ensuring reliable and efficient connections.

With features like IP auto-rotation and flexible geo-targeting, ZenRows Residential Proxies helps you avoid rate limits and bypass geo-restrictions on a large scale.

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Key Applications

Proxies are critical for web scraping and data extraction, but their applications extend beyond just avoiding IP blocks. Below are the primary benefits of using residential proxies for data extraction:

• Bypassing Anti-Bot Systems: Many websites deploy anti-bot mechanisms to block suspicious IP addresses. Proxies allow you to rotate IP addresses with every request, making your scraping operations undetectable. However, it’s important to note that only premium rotating proxies can effectively handle sophisticated anti-bot systems. Free proxies or manual switching will provide a different level of protection.

• Geolocation Targeting: Some websites restrict access based on your geographic location. With residential proxies, you gain access to IP addresses from precise regions worldwide, allowing you to retrieve localized data and avoid geo-restrictions.

• Boosted Performance: Residential proxies enhance your scraping performance by enabling you to send more requests while minimizing errors, blocks, and timeouts. The result is a higher success rate, leading to more efficient data extraction.

• Maintaining Anonymity: Proxies conceal information about your device and identity, ensuring that your web scraping activities remain anonymous and secure.

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Parameter Overview

When using ZenRows Residential Proxies, you can customize your scraping requests with the following parameters to enhance control over proxy usage, geolocation targeting, and response behavior:

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Pricing

The pricing starts at $69 monthly charging $5.50 per GB and we offer several other plans that go to $2.80. For lower price per GB, you could go to Enterprise plans.

The service charges per used bandwidth. For more detailed information, please refer to our pricing page.

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Troubleshooting Guide

When using ZenRows Residential Proxies, you might encounter some common issues. Here’s how to diagnose and resolve them:

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Connection Issues

Problem: Unable to connect to the proxy server

Solutions:

1. Verify authentication credentials are correct
2. Check for network restrictions or firewalls
3. Test proxy connection using a simple curl command:

curl -x "http://username:password@superproxy.zenrows.com:1337" https://httpbin.org/anything

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Slow Response Times

Problem: Proxy connections are taking too long

Solutions:

1. Try a different region that might be closer to your target
2. Set appropriate timeouts in your HTTP client:

import requests

timeout_seconds = 30
proxy_url = "http://username:password_country-us@superproxy.zenrows.com:1337"
proxies = {
    "http": proxy_url,
    "https": proxy_url
}

try:
    response = requests.get("https://httpbin.org/anything", proxies=proxies, timeout=timeout_seconds)
    print("Success:", response.status_code)
except requests.exceptions.Timeout:
    print("Request timed out - try a different country/region or increase timeout")

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Regional Restrictions

Problem: Unable to access region-specific content

Solutions:

1. Verify you’re using the correct country parameter
2. Try explicitly setting the language header to match the region:

import requests

country = "fr"  # France
proxy_url = f"http://username:password_country-{country}@superproxy.zenrows.com:1337"
proxies = {
    "http": proxy_url,
    "https": proxy_url
}

headers = {
    'Accept-Language': 'fr-FR,fr;q=0.9,en-US;q=0.8,en;q=0.7'  # French language preference
}

response = requests.get("https://httpbin.org/anything", proxies=proxies, headers=headers)