Guides, Tutorials & Insights
Learn about residential proxies, web scraping, data collection strategies, and industry best practices from the Shifter team.
How to Scrape Pagination and Infinite Scroll Reliably at Scale
Pagination is where scrapers silently lose data: skipped pages, double counts, stopping early. How to get every item once, and know when you're done.
Chris Collins · August 6, 2026 How to Use Residential Proxies in Puppeteer (Including page.authenticate)
Proxies in Puppeteer: the proxy goes in launch args, credentials in page.authenticate, per-page geo rotation through one gateway, and resource blocking.
Chris Collins · August 5, 2026 Monitoring a Scraping Pipeline: The Metrics That Tell You It's Breaking Before Your Data Does
A scraper fails silently: the cron fires, the logs say 200, the data goes wrong. The metrics and alerts that catch it in the pipeline, not the boardroom.
Chris Collins · August 4, 2026 The State of Web Scraping in 2026
AI made data collection strategic, anti-bot went network-level, blocks turned invisible, pricing shifted to bandwidth. Where web scraping stands in 2026.
James Meadow · August 3, 2026 How to Use Residential Proxies in C# with HttpClient
Proxies in C#: WebProxy with NetworkCredential, SocketsHttpHandler and PooledConnectionLifetime, IHttpClientFactory, and per-identity clients for geo rotation.
Chris Collins · August 2, 2026 Build vs Buy: Should You Run Your Own Scraping Infrastructure?
A demo scraper takes an afternoon. Running it at scale is a product. A framework for what to build, what to buy, and the one layer to always rent.
Chris Collins · August 1, 2026 How to Tell When a Site Is Serving You Fake or Blocked Content
The dangerous scraping failure is not the 403 you can see, it is the 200 OK full of junk. How to detect soft blocks, honeypots, and poisoned data.
Chris Collins · July 31, 2026 Introducing Automatic Wallet Top-Up
Set a threshold and refill amount, and your Shifter wallet refills itself so usage-based charges never pause your proxies. Monthly cap, off anytime.
James Meadow · July 30, 2026