Examples
A common production setup is to use ISP proxies for targets that block datacenter IPs quickly but do not require full residential rotation.
- Good fit: ecommerce pages, search result pages, account-less browsing flows
- Less ideal: heavily fingerprinted consumer flows that expect real household traffic patterns
curl "https://www.scraperouter.com/api/v1/scrape/?url=https://example.com" \
-H "Authorization: Api-Key $api_key"
In practice, teams often route traffic like this:
- Datacenter: cheap bulk jobs where some blocking is acceptable
- ISP: medium-to-hard targets where you need better IP reputation without residential cost
- Residential: hardest targets, login flows, aggressive bot systems
Practical tips
- Don't treat ISP proxies as magic. They help with IP reputation, but they do not fix bad headers, broken session handling, or obvious automation patterns.
- Use them when datacenter IPs burn too fast and residential is too expensive for the volume.
- Watch the tradeoff: ISP IPs are often more stable and faster than residential, but the pool is smaller, so overusing the same ranges can still get you flagged.
- Pair better IPs with basic scraping hygiene: realistic headers, cookie continuity, sane request pacing, retry logic.
- If you're running mixed workloads, route by target difficulty instead of paying ISP rates for everything.
- If you use ScrapeRouter, this routing logic is the whole point: you don't want application code deciding proxy type one target at a time forever.
Use cases
- Price monitoring: product pages where datacenter IPs get blocked fast, but full residential traffic is overkill
- SERP collection: search pages that need cleaner IP reputation and consistent performance
- Marketplace scraping: category and listing pages with rate limits and moderate anti-bot controls
- Session-based browsing: flows where you want the same IP to persist longer without the churn of residential networks
- Cost control in production: workloads that need a better success rate than datacenter, without paying residential pricing across the board