Web scraping is collecting structured public data from websites with software instead of a browser. Residential proxies make that possible when the target treats datacenter IPs as bots: each request leaves through a real household ISP address, so rate limits and CAPTCHAs fire less often. Teams use Aethyn Premium for high-volume crawls that rotate an IP per request, and Elite when the site runs Cloudflare, Akamai, or DataDome and needs a higher-reputation exit. You pay per byte with bandwidth that does not expire, then point your scraper at one gateway. Implementation detail lives in the how-to guides; this page is the buying decision — which pool, which session mode, and when to start.
Key Benefits
The Challenges We Solve
How It Works
Your scraping bot sends a request to Aethyn's edge.
Aethyn assigns a high-reputation residential IP from the target location.
The request is forwarded to the target website, appearing as a real user.
Data is returned to your bot instantly, with the IP rotating for the next request.
Premium or Elite for this job?
This use case usually needs Elite — higher-reputation exits plus city and ISP targeting. Premium still works for volume on easier hosts.
Premium for volume. Elite when anti-bot is the job.
| Premium | Elite | |
|---|---|---|
| Targeting | Country | Country, city, ISP |
| Session | Rotating or sticky | Rotating or sticky |
| Best for | Scale crawls, SEO, pricing | Cloudflare, Akamai, DataDome |
