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Premium Proxies

The ScrapeOps Proxy API Aggregator enables you to use higher quality/more expensive proxy providers by adding the premium=level_1 or premium=level_2 parameter to your requests. These premium proxy solutions offer higher and more reliable performance than standard proxy providers.

These premium proxies are usually used as fallback proxy providers by our proxy selection system, however, if you set premium=level_1 or premium=level_2 then all your requests will go through these proxy providers from the start.

Using premium proxies can unlock some websites, increase the success rate, and lower the latency of your requests, so they are good options when scraping more difficult websites or when performance is of top concern.

Usage Examples​

# Use premium level 1 proxies
curl -k "https://proxy.scrapeops.io/v1/?api_key=YOUR_API_KEY&url=http://httpbin.org/anything&premium=level_1"

# Use premium level 2 proxies
curl -k "https://proxy.scrapeops.io/v1/?api_key=YOUR_API_KEY&url=http://httpbin.org/anything&premium=level_2"
  • Using premium=level_1 will consume 1.5 API Credits per request (on large plans, the credit multiple will be increased to maintain a flat rate of $0.1 per thousand requests).
  • Using premium=level_2 will consume 3 API Credits per request (on large plans, the credit multiple will be increased to maintain a flat rate of $0.175 per thousand requests).

Choose premium=level_1 for most use cases where you need higher reliability and performance. Use premium=level_2 for the most challenging targets or when you require the highest possible success rate and lowest latency.

Residential/Mobile Proxies

These proxies aren't residential or mobile proxies, they are higher quality datacenter proxies that offer better performance.

If you would like to use residential proxies then add residential=true to your requests. Or if you would like to use mobile proxies then add mobile=true to your requests.

Combined Usage with Javascript Rendering​

If you use render_js=true in addition to a premium level, the cost per request increases as follows:

  • premium=level_1&render_js=true will consume 15 API Credits per request (on large plans, the credit multiple will be increased to maintain a flat rate of $1 per thousand requests).
  • premium=level_2&render_js=true will consume 30 API Credits per request (on large plans, the credit multiple will be increased to maintain a flat rate of $1.75 per thousand requests).

Example Usage​

# Use premium level 1 proxies with Javascript rendering
curl -k "https://proxy.scrapeops.io/v1/?api_key=YOUR_API_KEY&url=http://httpbin.org/anything&premium=level_1&render_js=true"

# Use premium level 2 proxies with Javascript rendering
curl -k "https://proxy.scrapeops.io/v1/?api_key=YOUR_API_KEY&url=http://httpbin.org/anything&premium=level_2&render_js=true"

These options are useful for scraping sites that require both high-quality proxies and Javascript rendering for successful extraction.