Originally Posted by gornyhuy

I usually write my own custom scraper scripts for mainstream data acquisition purposes, but for once I'm up against a system that has good IP activity detection and it is defeating all my tricks.

Does anybody have a reliable proxy service that actually has all working proxies, that I can access from within a script and that I can hit a few times a second without getting banned?

PS: this has nothing to do with spam, email slurping, or anything shady. Its totally legit, but the publishers of the data are total pricks so I have to jump through these ridiculous hoops.