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All about residential proxies

Residential proxies route traffic through IPs associated with consumer broadband. They are a practical default when you need many locations and the target is not specifically mobile-only.

How they differ from mobile and datacenter

Residential sits between mobile (carrier) and datacenter (hosting). Use residential for public websites that filter obvious hosting ranges but do not require a mobile ASN.

Location targeting

Set the country in the dashboard before you collect. Tag every stored record with that location so later comparisons stay valid.

Credentials

Use the dashboard values in any client that supports HTTP or SOCKS5. Do not commit passwords to git; load them from environment variables.

Instructions

  1. 1. Choose residential on pricing

    Select bandwidth and billing period, then complete checkout.

  2. 2. Set the market

    Open the proxy and pick the location that matches the pages you will request.

  3. 3. Run a canary URL

    Fetch one public page and confirm language, currency, or layout for that market.

  4. 4. Scale the job

    Keep session policy documented: sticky for pagination, rotate between independent batches.

Residential canary request
Replace USERNAME, PASSWORD, HOST, and PORT with values from your dashboard.
curl -x http://USERNAME:PASSWORD@HOST:PORT https://example.com

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