Articles, guides, and tool docs for Bytesflows — dynamic residential proxies and free scraping tools. This repo is the Markdown source for what you see at bytesflows.com/en/blog.
→ Read on the site: Blog · Proxies · Pricing
Bytesflows provides dynamic residential proxies — real household IPs that rotate per request or per session so your scrapers look like normal users. That means fewer blocks, better success on protected sites, and the ability to scale.
- Rotating residential IPs — Lower block rates than datacenter proxies; ideal for Cloudflare and other anti-bot environments
- Geo-targeting — Choose country or city for local prices, inventory, SERP, and region-specific data
- Free tools — Proxy Checker, Scraping Test, User-Agent Generator, Robots.txt Tester, Proxy Rotator, and more on the site
The content in this repo is written to help you learn web scraping, choose the right proxies, and run more reliable crawls. Explore the guides on the live site and try Bytesflows proxies when you’re ready to scale.
| Where | What |
|---|---|
| Live site | bytesflows.com/en/blog — all articles, landing pages, and tool pages |
| This repo | content/ — Markdown source that syncs to the site |
Internal links in the content follow the live sitemap (e.g. /en/blog/..., /en/proxies). For the best reading experience, use the blog index and categories on the website. Below is a content map for this repository.
| Folder | Description | Example slugs (live URL: https://bytesflows.com/en/blog/<slug>) |
|---|---|---|
content/blog/ |
Long-form articles, guides, comparisons | what-is-web-scraping-beginner-guide, ultimate-guide-web-scraping-2026, best-proxies-for-web-scraping |
content/landing/ |
Topic pages (residential proxies, Cloudflare, Python) | residential-proxies, cloudflare-scraping, python-scraping-proxy |
content/tools/ |
Docs for on-site tools | proxy-checker, http-header-checker, scraping-test, user-agent-generator, robots-tester, proxy-rotator |
Articles use a category in frontmatter. Use these to find or organize content:
| Topic | What you’ll find | Example articles (slug) |
|---|---|---|
| Getting started | What is web scraping, first scraper, tools for beginners | what-is-web-scraping-beginner-guide, ultimate-guide-web-scraping-2026, how-to-build-first-web-scraper, web-scraping-tools-beginners |
| Web scraping basics | Workflow, vs API, vs crawling, at-scale practices | web-scraping-workflow-explained, web-scraping-vs-api, web-scraping-vs-web-crawling, web-scraping-at-scale-best-practices |
| Python | Tutorials, libraries, Scrapy, Requests, performance | python-web-scraping-guide, python-web-scraping-tutorial-beginners, best-python-libraries-web-scraping, scrapy-framework-guide, using-requests-web-scraping |
| Proxies | Residential vs datacenter, rotation, pools, best proxies | datacenter-vs-residential-proxies, proxy-rotation-strategies, rotating-proxies-web-scraping, best-proxies-for-web-scraping, how-many-proxies-need-scraping |
| Playwright / browser | Headless browser, Playwright vs Selenium/Puppeteer, proxy config | playwright-web-scraping-tutorial, headless-browser-scraping-guide, playwright-proxy-configuration-guide, using-proxies-playwright |
| Anti-bot & bypass | Cloudflare, fingerprinting, captchas, detection | bypass-cloudflare-web-scraping, browser-fingerprinting-explained, how-websites-detect-scrapers, handling-captchas-in-scraping |
| Legal & ethics | Legality, ethical practices | web-scraping-legal-considerations, is-web-scraping-legal, ethical-web-scraping-best-practices-2025 |
| Use cases | E‑commerce, jobs, SERP, real estate, travel, etc. | scraping-ecommerce-websites, scraping-job-listings, scraping-serp-data, scraping-real-estate-data |
| AI & advanced | AI/LLM for extraction, pipelines, agents | ai-web-scraping-explained, using-llms-extract-web-data, future-of-ai-web-scraping |
- Blog: bytesflows.com/en/blog
- Dynamic residential proxies: bytesflows.com/en/proxies
- Pricing: bytesflows.com/en/pricing
New to web scraping? Start with the beginner guide on our blog.
content/
blog/ # Long articles (slug → /en/blog/<slug>)
landing/ # Topic landings (residential-proxies, cloudflare-scraping, python-scraping-proxy)
tools/ # Tool docs (proxy-checker, scraping-test, etc.)
scripts/
upload-blog-to-notion.js # Sync content to Notion (site pipeline)
fix-internal-links-sitemap.js # Normalize internal links to /en/blog/... and /en/proxies
# ... other utilities
- Internal links: Use only paths that exist on the live sitemap (bytesflows.com/sitemap.xml), e.g.
/en/blog/<slug>,/en/proxies. Runnode scripts/fix-internal-links-sitemap.jsto fix old-style links. - New posts: Add a
.mdfile undercontent/blog/,content/landing/, orcontent/tools/with frontmatter (title,slug,summary,category,tags,language). Then run the upload/sync script as used in your pipeline.
This repo is the single source of truth for Bytesflows blog and tool content in Markdown. Articles are published at bytesflows.com and linked from the sitemap so readers can discover guides on web scraping, proxies, and best practices. The goal is to provide practical, technical content that helps you build and run better scrapers — and when you need reliable IPs at scale, Bytesflows dynamic residential proxies are there to help.
- Reading content: Visit bytesflows.com/en/blog for the full experience.
- Contributing or syncing: Use the structure and scripts above. To set the repo description and topics on GitHub, see .github/REPO_SETUP.md. For more on content and discovery, see docs/content-and-discovery-tips.md.