Route through real homes.
Residential proxies on 215M+ IPs assigned by ISPs to actual households across 199 countries. Websites see a regular person browsing from their couch.
- Residential98%
- ISP82%
- Datacenter38%
Acceptance rates across 500+ protected websites
- Residential IPs
- 215M+
- Countries
- 199
- Avg latency
- 150ms
- Success rate
- 95%+
Why residential IPs work.
Sites weigh traffic by where it comes from. Residential IPs are ordinary household connections, so pages that refuse datacenter and ISP ranges still load through them.
IP registry lookup
Registered to ISPs like Comcast, BT, Deutsche Telekom. Not flagged as hosting or cloud.
ASN reputation
Shares ASN with millions of real broadband subscribers. Clean history, no bulk abuse flags.
Geo consistency
IP geolocation matches a real city and postal code. Consistent with browser timezone and language.
Browser consistency
Paired with Spider's native browser, the network and the browser both match a person browsing from home.
What residential proxies are built for.
E-commerce price monitoring
Amazon, Shopify stores, and marketplaces actively block datacenter IPs. Residential returns the same prices and availability real shoppers see.
Ad verification
Verify ad placements as they appear to real users in specific cities. Detect fraud, check creative rendering, validate geo-targeting.
Brand protection
Monitor for counterfeit listings, trademark violations, and unauthorized resellers across marketplaces. Check region-locked content for local compliance.
Travel fare aggregation
Airlines and hotels price by visitor location and browsing history. Residential IPs from target countries return accurate local pricing without rate limits.
One request, end-to-end.
$ curl -X POST api.spider.cloud/scrape \ -d '{"url":"https://store.example.com", "proxy":"residential", "country_code":"us"}' [1] selecting IP from US residential pool (47M available) provider: pool-A · ASN: AS7922 (Comcast) · city: Denver, CO [2] routing request through 73.xxx.xxx.42 TLS: Chrome 124 · headers: residential profile [3] target responded 200 OK in 187ms content-length: 48.2KB · no challenge detected → residential proxy complete · IP rotated for next call
Use it now.
from spider import Spider
client = Spider()
# Scrape with residential proxies in Germany
result = client.scrape_url(
"https://store.example.com/products",
params={
"proxy": "residential",
"country_code": "de",
"return_format": "markdown",
}
)
print(result[0]["content"])Three numbers.
Residential proxy questions.
What makes residential proxies different from datacenter proxies?
Residential IPs are assigned by internet service providers to real households. They share the same address space as regular internet users, so websites treat them as legitimate traffic. Datacenter IPs come from cloud hosting providers, and sites that limit automated traffic refuse them more often.
How does Spider source residential IPs?
Spider aggregates residential IPs from multiple ethically sourced peer networks. Using multiple upstream providers means no single point of failure and broader geographic coverage than any single provider can offer.
When should I use residential vs ISP proxies?
Use residential when the target site is strict about where traffic comes from (e-commerce, social media, ticketing). Use ISP proxies when you need speed and volume on less strict sites (SERPs, news, public directories). Residential costs more per request but has significantly higher success rates on protected targets.
Do residential proxies rotate automatically?
Yes. Every request gets a fresh IP by default. If you need the same IP for a multi-step flow (login, pagination), set a session ID to pin the IP for up to 10 minutes.
What is the success rate for residential proxies?
Residential proxies achieve 95%+ success rates on most websites. Success rates vary by target, but residential consistently outperforms other proxy types on heavily protected sites.
Can I combine residential proxies with headless browsers?
Yes. Set proxy to residential and use Spider's browser rendering together. The request goes out through a residential IP and runs its JavaScript in Spider's native browser, so the network and the browser both match a real person at home.
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