Why proxies for ScrapeBox decide the outcome of every harvest
The ScrapeBox harvester fires dozens of parallel queries at Google, Bing and Yandex within seconds. The engine notices the burst immediately: one subnet, identical rhythm, zero human pauses. Datacenter addresses get throttled in minutes, and the harvester starts returning empty result pages instead of URLs.
Mobile IPs behave differently at the network layer. They belong to a cellular operator's ASN, and carriers place hundreds of subscribers behind a single public address through CGNAT — typically 500 to 5000 users per IP. Banning that address would cut off real paying subscribers, so platforms lean on captcha and rate limiting instead of a permanent block.
What the search engine sees behind your connection
| Proxy type | ASN type | Typical fraud score | Harvest stability |
|---|
| Datacenter | hosting | 75–100 | Low |
| Residential (someone else's category) | isp | 25–60 | Medium |
| Mobile | mobile | 0–15 | Highest of all proxy types |
Threads, timeouts and one honest limitation
A cellular channel is slower than a wired one: latency sits around 50–300 ms, and one device comfortably serves only a few simultaneous connections. Copying guides that recommend 100 threads on a single port is the fastest way to ruin a scraping operation.
- Keep 1–5 connections per port and scale by adding ports, not threads.
- Raise the harvester timeout to 30–60 seconds — retries cost less than lost keywords.
- Add a small random delay between requests so the pattern looks human.
Pro tip: match rotation to the job. Position tracking for one city and one operator needs a sticky IP for the whole cycle; blind URL harvesting benefits from frequent changes.
Lite or Regular for your scraping task
OnlineProxy bills per port for 1, 7 or 30 days, with a 24-hour minimum period and unlimited traffic — that means no per-GB metering, unlike residential plans priced by gigabyte.
- Lite — a shared device, up to five users per port, automatic IP change every 2–5 minutes with no manual control. Fits wide harvesting where sessions don't matter.
- Regular — the whole device for the rental period: sticky sessions, rotation by link or timer, device reboot, priority support. This is the option for SERP checks tied to a city and operator, and for anything session-bound.
How to check ScrapeBox proxies before a big run
Verification takes five minutes and saves hours of garbage output. Run the built-in proxy test first, then confirm the network origin externally.
- Confirm the ASN type is mobile via whois, Spur.us or IPQualityScore; a hosting or corporate label is a substitution.
- Keep the fraud score under 25 and verify the address is absent from DNSBL and Spamhaus.
- Align geography: proxy country, interface language and timezone must tell the same story.
Pro tip: keep a canary keyword list with known results. If a single datum in that control set changes shape, you're being served altered pages, not blocked ones — and silent distortion is worse than an error.
ScrapeBox proxies solve the network layer only; behavior and footprint stay your responsibility. Support works around the clock with a four-hour target for the first reply, cashback is credited as promo balance after a completed rental, and refunds follow the published refund and replacement policy.