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Havoctoday at 12:55 AM1 replyview on HN

It's not 10k requests, it's 10k IPs

Having lots of IPs is helpful for scraping, but you don't need 10k. That's a botnet


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TurdF3rgusontoday at 1:05 AM

The way it works is this: You can sign up for a proxy rotator service that works like a regular proxy except every request you make goes through a different ip address. Is that a botnet? Yes. Is it also typically used in a scraping project? Yes.

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