FAQ: Getting started
Find out everything you need to know about using Decodo's proxy and web scraping solutions.
More questions are covered here: FAQ: Billing and Decodo overview.
Topics
- Proxy location: country / city
- Domain:port vs IP:port format
- Proxy authentication: user:pass authorization & IP whitelisting
- Proxy server: filter right proxy pool
- Proxy address: choosing location endpoint
- Proxy ports: sticky and rotating sessions
- Using domain:port format in cURL
- Single backconnect proxies entry node and cURL examples
- Public API
- What is changing in traffic calculation?
- Configure proxies on a browser (extension), laptop or mobile device
- Integrate proxies with 3rd party software, bots and automation tools
- Error codes, warnings. Why proxies might not work or connect
- Usage statistic and used traffic (GBs) tracking
- Unused GB (traffic): what will happen
- Fair usage policy
- How was the IP quality determined?
- Updating your scraping route
- How does the 50% discount work?
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