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Scaling social media scraping
The client:
Scrapes public data from a particularly popular social media platform.
The challenge:
They could not scale the number of requests and realized that they needed a proxy network with a rotating IP capability to handle their request scale.
![The challenge](https://main-cdn.smartproxy.com/images/830ea247-3b8a-43ae-bfa8-37b55509dd3e_The.challenge.png?ixlib=gatsbyFP&auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=max&w=310&h=310)
What we offered:
The client chose us because we are focused proxy providers and offered various proxy options: residential and datacenter IP addresses.
![What we offered](https://main-cdn.smartproxy.com/images/5fa06450-f2ae-4187-9656-aa0e6f0b82d5_What.we.offered.png?ixlib=gatsbyFP&auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=max&w=310&h=310)
The result:
Our product removed the limits of requests our client could send. Proxies increased the scale of their business and solved a major problem for the core business. Their number of requests per minute increased 350%.
![The result](https://main-cdn.smartproxy.com/images/7bc4e032-d96f-4cba-b9d4-f4d8589e5218_The.result.png?ixlib=gatsbyFP&auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=max&w=310&h=310)