Robertas Lisickis

Error 429 can hit anyone on YouTube, whether you’re looking for what to watch or collecting video analytics with automated tools. While the causes are different, the frustration of getting blocked is all the same. We'll dive into what this error means, why it happens to both everyday users and professional scrapers, and how to fix it.

A mobile proxy is an intermediary that routes your traffic through a cellular network. This alone sets them apart from other proxy types in terms of anti-detection, geo-targeting granularity, and content exclusivity. This guide will cover how mobile proxies work under the hood, how they stack up against residential, ISP, and datacenter alternatives, and how you can configure one for yourself.

A residential proxy network routes your traffic through real ISP-assigned home IPs. But how routing actually happens, which proxy types you end up using, and how IPs are sourced have a much bigger impact on success rates. This guide breaks down how residential proxy networks work, including ASN-level routing, the different types of IPs, and the protocols they support.

You can’t get any more "real" than mobile and residential proxies. Both are sourced from genuine user devices, with mobile drawing from phones on carrier networks and residential from homes with broadband. In this blog post, we’ll tackle the difference between the two, explaining how each proxy type affects trust, speed, and cost, and how to decide which one belongs in your projects.

CAPTCHAs love to show up right when your scraper's getting somewhere. They exist to sort humans from bots, and if you're seeing them constantly, it's usually triggered by a mix of strict website security policies and a drop in your IP's trust score. That's why CAPTCHA bypass only works long-term if you treat it as a trust fix, not a workaround.

A rank tracker API gives you concrete data on where a page sits in search results for a given keyword, location, and device. This guide walks through how rank trackers work, how to get your requests running, and what you'll realistically pay per tracked keyword.

ShieldFont is an open-source web font that swaps some of a page's words in the HTML source for different ones and redraws the originals on screen through the font's own rendering rules. The idea is to make the writing harder to use in AI training without permission. In this blog post, we'll tackle how the mechanism works and where it stops.

Cloudflare offers an anti-bot system that protects over 25% of all websites to date (W3Techs, 2026), and can shut your scraper down in seconds. This is where a Cloudflare scraper, a tool that gets past those defenses to pull data from protected sites, comes in handy. This guide breaks down how Cloudflare spots bots, why most scrapers fail, and how to scrape with Decodo's Web Scraping API.