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Best Facebook Scraper Tools in 2025: Scrape Without Blocks
Struggling to scrape Facebook? Learn why scraping breaks, if the API helps, which tools work, when to use proxies, and what Facebook's ToS says.
10 minutes
Introducing Live Network Activity: a real-time debugging interface.
Live Network Activity launches today—a real-time debugging dashboard that shows detailed breakdowns of every proxy request, eliminating guesswork with live updates.
2 minutes
Mastering cURL Follow Redirect: A Guide for Command-Line Users
Having trouble with cURL not following redirects? Learn how to use -L flag, handle methods, trace & debug chains, and find out what cURL can’t handle
8 minutes
Top 5 Amazon Scrapers: Best Tools to Extract Product Data in 2025
Struggling to scrape Amazon without blocks? Discover top 5 scraping tools, challenges, proxy uses, legal considerations and tips to extract structured data
8 minutes
How to Set Up Proxy in Octo Browser: Anti-Detect Browser
New to Octo Browser? Proxies help create unique profiles and stable sessions. This guide shows how to set up proxies on Octo Browser and avoid errors
10 minutes
Residential Network Improvements in US East
Announcing upgrades to our US East residential proxy network where 40% of traffic originates. Experience 61% faster speeds & 4X capacity near major cloud hubs.
5 minutes
Undetectable Browser (Undetectable.io) Proxy Setup Guide 2025
Want to add proxies to the Undetectable browser? Learn how to set up and manage proxies on Undetectable.io using Byteful the right way.
10 minutes
SOCKS Protocol Deep Dive
As part of our in-house proxy solution - Ancelotti - we implemented our own Rust-based sans-IO SOCKS5 library. In the near future we will be releasing a three part blog series discussing how to implement the entirety of the SOCKS5 protocol using different methods for representing state machines (using enums, using typestates, using coroutines).
15 minutes
Piecing together SOCKS5 Fragmentation
We take a look at SOCKS5 Fragmentation to try to understand the reason it exists and is in the RFC. It turns out we couldn't...but we found some interesting things along the way.
10 minutes
