Guides, Tutorials & Insights
Learn about residential proxies, web scraping, data collection strategies, and industry best practices from the Shifter team.
Residential Proxies for News and Media Monitoring
News coverage is regional, geo-gated, and bot-defended, so you only see it as a real local reader. How residential proxies make media monitoring accurate.
James Meadow · July 12, 2026 How to Cut Proxy Bandwidth Costs When Scraping at Scale
Residential proxies bill by the gigabyte, and a naive scraper wastes most of its bytes. Nine practical ways to cut proxy bandwidth costs without losing data.
Matt Brown · July 11, 2026 Residential Proxies for Recruiting and Job Market Data
Job postings, salaries, and hiring trends are served by location and heavily defended. How residential proxies make recruiting and job market data accurate.
Chris Collins · July 10, 2026 Residential Proxies for Digital Shelf Analytics
Your digital shelf, rank, content, availability, reviews, is geo-personalized per retailer and market. How residential proxies measure it as a real shopper.
James Meadow · July 9, 2026 How to Scrape Local Business Data (Google Maps and Directories) with Proxies
Local listings, ratings, and rankings are served by location, so you only see them right from inside the city. How proxies fix local business data collection.
Matt Brown · July 8, 2026 Residential Proxies for Alternative Data
Investment firms trade on web-sourced signals, but only if the data is accurate. How residential proxies make alternative data complete, geo-true, unblocked.
James Meadow · July 7, 2026 How to Use Residential Proxies with Playwright
A hands-on guide to residential proxies in Playwright: auth, per-context rotation, geo-targeting, cutting bandwidth, and the Chromium gotchas.
Chris Collins · July 6, 2026 Residential Proxies for Threat Intelligence and OSINT
Malicious infrastructure cloaks and geo-fences to hide from investigators. How residential proxies let security teams observe threats as a real local user.
Chris Collins · July 5, 2026 Monitoring AI Search and Google AI Overviews with Proxies
AI Overviews and answer engines vary by location. How residential proxies let you monitor your AI search visibility accurately, per market.
James Meadow · July 4, 2026