Guides, Tutorials & Insights
Learn about residential proxies, web scraping, data collection strategies, and industry best practices from the Shifter team.
How Does a Web Scraping API Work?
How does a web scraping API work? Learn how requests, proxy rotation, rendering, parsing, and anti-bot handling power reliable data collection.
Chris Collins · May 22, 2026 Best ISP Proxies for Scraping in 2026
Find the best ISP proxies for scraping with practical criteria on speed, uptime, sticky sessions, geo-targeting, and cost at scale.
Chris Collins · May 21, 2026 What Are Residential Proxies?
What are residential proxies? Learn how they work, why teams use them for web data collection, and where they fit in large-scale proxy infrastructure.
James Meadow · May 20, 2026 Introducing the New Shifter Residential Proxies
A new gateway model with improved speed, 205M+ residential IPs, bandwidth-based pricing, and precision targeting by country, region, city, and ASN.
James Meadow · May 18, 2026 AI Agents on the Web: The New Traffic Shape
Browser-using AI agents are a different kind of visitor: bursty, multi-step, latency-sensitive, geographically specific. The infrastructure question.
Chris Collins · May 14, 2026 The Anatomy of a Residential IP: What Target Sites Actually See
Residential, ISP, datacenter. The labels are familiar, the mechanics aren't. A technical walkthrough of what a target site looks at when it decides whether to serve you the real page.
Matt Brown · May 10, 2026 ISP Proxies: The Middle Ground Between Datacenter and Residential
Pinned IPs from real ISPs are neither residential rotation nor raw datacenter. The third option that solves a specific class of problem most teams underuse.
Matt Brown · May 6, 2026 Why LLMs Need Residential Proxies for AI Grounding
Modern AI systems retrieve from the live web at inference time. The reliability of that retrieval depends on whether the upstream IP is one sites trust.
Chris Collins · May 2, 2026