Packetstream Scraper
Spider read packetstream.io in 145 ms without a browser and returned 166 lines of clean markdown, including sections like "Common questions" and "Field notes on proxies & scraping".
## Common questions.PacketStream is a peer-to-peer residential proxy network. Real users around the world (“Packeters”) run the desktop app, and businesses route traffic through those household connections with country targeting.How is this different from data-center proxies?Data-center ranges are published, so a site can block an entire provider with one rule — which is why a cheap proxy pool works for a week and then returns nothing but 403s. PacketStream exits are ordinary household connections, so there is no block-the-whole-range shortcut.Proxy bandwidth is metered at $1.00/GB with a $50 minimum purchase and no subscription. Purchased balance does not expire.How do rotating and sticky sessions work?Automatic rotation selects a residential exit for each new proxy connection. Add a session ID to keep the same exit for up to 60 minutes. A sticky session stays tied to that one household for its lifetime, so it ends rather than continuing under a different identity.Can I trust that a response came from the country I asked for?Yes. Country targeting uses ISO two-letter codes, and a response only ever comes back from the country you specified. Where an exit is not available in that country, you get an error rather than a quiet substitution — so the data you collect always matches the location you targeted.Yes. Submit the trial request form or email support with your use case. Support reviews each request; approval and credit amount are discretionary.## Field notes on proxies & scraping.[Jul 17, 2026### How HTTP Connection Pooling Affects Residential Proxy RotationRead article](https://packetstream.io/how-http-connection-pooling-affects-proxy-rotation/)[Jul 9, 2026### How to Estimate Proxy Bandwidth Before Scaling a Scraping ProjectThe same call, in code.
The capture above came back as markdown. These examples add a key, so you get browser rendering, proxies, and concurrency on packetstream.io.
import { SpiderBrowser } from "spider-browser";
const spider = new SpiderBrowser({
apiKey: process.env.SPIDER_API_KEY!,
});
await spider.connect();
const page = spider.page!;
await page.goto("https://packetstream.io");
// No selectors, no schema. Spider reads the page and names the fields.
const data = await page.scrape();
console.log(data);
await spider.close();import { Spider } from "@spider-cloud/spider-client";
const spider = new Spider({ apiKey: process.env.SPIDER_API_KEY! });
const result = await spider.scrapeUrl("https://www.packetstream.io", {
return_format: "markdown",
});
console.log(result);Ready for volume? Get an API key →
Fields you can pull.
Spider names these from the page. The capture above came back as markdown; the same
call with return_format: "json" returns them as keys.
What packetstream.io costs to scrape.
The capture above cost $0.000121 to fetch. Pricing is $1 per GB of pre-transformation bandwidth plus $0.001 per CPU minute, so a page like this one lands at a fraction of a cent. Failed requests are billed at $0.
- Free balance on signup
- No card required to test
- Balance never expires
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Start scraping packetstream.io.
You already have the call. A key raises the rate limit and turns on browser rendering, proxies, and concurrency. Balance never expires, and top-ups go through secure checkout.