This is a good callout - I’ve tried my best thus far to limit the use of proxies unless absolutely necessary and then focus on reputable providers (even though these are a bit more pricey).Definitely going to give this more thought though, thank you for the comment

&gt; Some are sourced from bandwidth sharing SDKs for games with user consent...The notion that most people installing a game meaningfully consent to unspecified ongoing uses of their Internet connection resold to undeclared third parties gave me a good, hearty belly laugh. Especially expressed so matter-of-factly.Thank you.

&gt; bandwidth sharing SDKs for games with user consentWhat games are you aware of that do this? I want to make sure I have none of them installed.

There&#x27;s a lot of variety in the residential proxy market. Some are sourced from bandwidth sharing SDKs for games with user consent, some are &quot;mislabeled&quot; IPs from ISPs that offer that as a product and then there&#x27;s a long tail of &quot;hacked&quot; devices. Labeling them generally as sketchy seems wrong.

Residential proxies are sketchy at best. How can you guarantee that your service&#x27;s infrastructure isn&#x27;t hinging on an illicit botnet?

Shoot me your site and I can blacklist it

As a site owner, how does one opt out of this, since it obviously ignores robots.txt?

Thank you for the feedback - agreed.It’s an extraction pattern for a certain site, so you can reuse it. Think a pattern to extract all forum posts - then using that on different pages with the same format. Like show new, show, new posts on HN.

What is a strategy? You need to elaborate that in pricing.

I appreciate the response! I also agree - happy to add some clarity to this stuff.Bot protection - this is handled in a few ways, the basic form bypasses most bot protections and that’s what you can use on the site today. For tougher sites, it solves the bot protections (think datadome, Akamai, incapsula).The consistency part is ongoing, but it’s possible to check the diffs and content extractions and notice if something has changed and “reindex” the site.100k URLs is a lot! It could support that, but the initial indexing would be heavy. It’s fairly resource efficient (no browsers). For scale, it’s doing about 40k&#x2F;scrapes a day right now.Appreciate the comments, happy to dive deeper into the implantation and I agree with everything you’ve said. Still iterating and trying to improve it.

Writing a scraper isn&#x27;t the hard part, that is actually fairly trivial at this point in time. Pulling content into JSON from your scrape is also fairly trivial - libraries exist that handle it well.The harder parts are things like playing nicely so your bot doesn&#x27;t get banned by sysadmins, detecting changes downstream from your URL, handling dynamically loading content, and keeping that JSON structure consistent even as your sites change their content, their designs, etc. Also, scalability. One customer I&#x27;m talking to could use a product like this, but they have 100K URLs to track, and that is more than I currently want to deal with.I absolutely can see the use case for consistent change data from a URL, I&#x27;m just not seeing enough content in your marketing to know whether you really have something here, or if you vibe coded a scraper and are throwing it against the wall to see if it sticks.

lol it probably does unless their filtering is great

this must wreck their google analytics stats

Here’s how it works:1. Paste a URL in, describe what you want2. Define an interval to monitor3. Get real time webhooks of any changes in JSONLots of customers are using this across different domains to get consistent, repeatable JSON out of sites and monitor changes.Supports API + HTML extraction, never write a scraper again!

&quot;AntiBot bypass&quot;.I see we continue to aim for high ethical standards throughout the industry.

So with APIs, it adjusts. For HTML layouts, it looks at the previous diffs to catch potential errors and then re-indexes.

So what happens when the website layout updates, does the monitoring job fail silently?

Self hosted option with live changes coming soon: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mulberry.bot" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mulberry.bot</a>

Yeah, like open a disputed article and turn on the plugin. Suddenly wikiedits, videos and forums&#x2F;notes annotate a page. The structured data is used to organize it and when&#x2F;if it changes the editors can update links.Probably use a graph database and RAG type references.

This is actually a really interesting though - like an embedder with live data?

I recommend a pivot: take your structured data approach and build a browser plugin that allows users to pin forums, wiki edits and adverts on any web content they like.

Turn any website into a live, structured data feed