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What Is Web Scraping? A Step-by-Step Python Tutorial

Learn what web scraping is and build a working Python scraper that exports website data to CSV. See when clean proxies improve access and reliability

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Overview

What is web scraping and how does it work?

Automated systems generated more than 53% of web traffic in 2025, according to the Imperva 2026 Bad Bot Report. Many websites now respond to automated requests with rate limits, CAPTCHAs, browser checks, and IP reputation controls.

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A web scraper visits a page and extracts selected information from its HTML. Instead of copying product prices or article headlines manually, the scraper finds each field and saves it automatically.

A basic scraping workflow has six stages:

Platform

Platform capabilities for this workflow

Quality filtering, flexible sessions, geo targeting, and standard HTTPS/SOCKS5 endpoints from one dashboard.

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Residential

Real-user IPs for high-trust scraping and research. From $2.20/GB.

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Mobile

Carrier 4G/5G paths for social and mobile-first flows.

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ISP

Static residential-grade lines from $2.99/IP.

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HTTPS & SOCKS5

Standard protocols for browsers, scrapers, and apps.

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Sticky or rotate

Match session length to logins, carts, or bulk crawls.

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Geo targeting

Country, city, and ZIP options on eligible plans.

Deep dive

How to scrape a website with Python

In short: Website URL -> HTTP request -> HTML response -> CSS selectors -> selected data -> CSV file.

Suppose an online store places a product title inside an h2 element and the price inside an element with the .price class. A scraper can find those elements on every product page and turn them into spreadsheet rows.

Web crawling and web scraping often appear in the same project, but they do different jobs. A crawler discovers pages. A scraper extracts selected fields from them.

For example, a crawler might find 10,000 product URLs. The scraper then collects the title, price, seller, rating, and stock status from each page.

Workflow

Web scraping techniques and tools

Step 1

Create a Gateproxies account and open the dashboard.

Step 2

Choose rotating residential or mobile IPs for the scrape target..

Step 3

Set country or city targeting and sticky vs rotating sessions.

Step 4

Copy the proxy string into your browser, scraper, or antidetect profile.

Step 5

Monitor success and usage, then scale bandwidth as needed.

Step 6

Contact support if a target needs protocol or geo tuning.

Details

What is web scraping used for?

Gateproxies is built for operators who need clean exits and predictable sessions for web scraping workflows. You pick the IP class, set rotation or sticky behavior, and keep auth simple in the dashboard.

Residential pools start from $2.20/GB on high-volume monthly tiers. Mobile follows the same bandwidth ladder. ISP static lines start from $2.99/IP for long-lived logins.

Success rates depend on your target stack, but quality filters reduce weak endpoints before they enter rotation. That keeps scrapers, browsers, and automation jobs more stable over time.

Integrate with Puppeteer, Playwright, AdsPower, Multilogin, Dolphin, and system tools like Proxifier using standard username and password proxy strings.

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Pricing snapshot

Is web scraping legal?

Residential and mobile bandwidth scales from starter packages down to $2.20/GB on high-volume monthly tiers. ISP is priced per IP.

Monthly tier	$/GB	Pay as you go	$/GB
2 GB	$4.25	2 GB	$5.00
20 GB	$3.75	20 GB	$4.50
100 GB	$3.00	100 GB	$3.45
450 GB	$2.60	450 GB	$2.92
1k GB	$2.20	1k GB	$2.45
ISP static		From $2.99/IP

FAQ

FAQs

Yes. Pick residential, mobile, or ISP based on risk and session needs, then point your tool at the proxy host from the dashboard.

Residential and mobile use per-GB packages (billed monthly or pay as you go). ISP is priced per IP. There are no free unlimited plans.

HTTPS works for most browser and scraper stacks. SOCKS5 is available when your tool prefers it.

Yes on eligible products. Hold the same IP for multi-step flows, or rotate per request for bulk collection.

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