Technical field notes

Make the capacity decision from measured work.

These guides turn request volume, browser complexity, retry policy, session behavior, and target sensitivity into decisions you can test. Each one includes formulas, worked examples, and an operational checklist.

ScrapeBudget guides

10 min read

How Many Scraping Requests Do You Need Per Month?

Calculate monthly page loads, retry overhead, browser-request complexity, and a practical capacity tier for a recurring web data workflow.

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9 min read

Rotating vs Static Proxies for Web Data Workflows

Choose between per-request rotation, static dedicated IPs, and static ISP proxies by matching IP persistence to the workflow rather than treating one proxy type as universally best.

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11 min read

How to Size Proxy Capacity for Ecommerce Price Monitoring

Turn products, competitors, countries, freshness targets, rendering overhead, and retries into an auditable monthly capacity estimate for public price monitoring.

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10 min read

How to Reduce Web Scraping Credit Usage Without Losing Useful Data

Reduce credits per useful record by choosing lean endpoints, controlling browser assets, caching, deduplicating work, and applying evidence-based retry and freshness policies.

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