Used For

• +**Your BeautifulSoup scrapers fail on JavaScript-heavy e-commerce sites** → Decodo renders the page completely, waits for content to load, gets the actual prices
• +**You're spending 3 hours writing custom code to bypass each site's anti-bot system** → 100+ pre-built templates handle the hard sites so you just plug in what you want
• +**Your IP gets banned after 50 requests and you start over** → 115 million real residential IPs rotate automatically, sites think you're different people
• +**Feeding raw HTML to your AI and it chokes on the mess** → AI Parser converts messy HTML into clean JSON your tools can actually use
• +Handles CAPTCHAs automatically - no more paying humans to solve puzzles or building your own solver

Best For

• >Your scrapers keep dying on React sites and you're tired of playing whack-a-mole with anti-bot systems
• >Tracking 50+ competitors manually because your intern quit after week two
• >Managing multiple social accounts without getting banned every other Tuesday

Not For

• -Solo projects scraping less than 1000 pages per month — you'll pay $400+ for residential proxies you barely use
• -Anyone wanting a simple VPN for browsing — this is built for data collection, not hiding your Netflix location
• -Teams expecting it to work perfectly out of the box — even with templates, you'll spend time tweaking for your specific needs

Pairs With

• *Python or Node.js (where you write the actual scraping logic that calls Decodo's proxies)
• *PostgreSQL or MongoDB (to store all the scraped data instead of losing it in CSV files)
• *Zapier or Make (to automatically trigger scrapes and send alerts when competitor prices change)
• *Google Sheets or Airtable (where non-technical teammates can actually see the scraped data)
• *Slack (for alerts when your scraper breaks or finds something important)
• *Tableau or Looker (to turn your scraped competitor data into charts executives will actually look at)

The Catch

• !Residential proxy pricing is brutal — $400 for 50GB means you're paying $8 per gigabyte of data
• !The datacenter plans seem cheaper but cap you at tiny IP pools (3 IPs for $7.50 won't cut it for serious scraping)
• !Templates save setup time but sites change their layouts constantly, so you'll still need someone to maintain the scrapers

Bottom Line

Premium proxies with templates that actually work on the annoying sites that break your homemade scrapers.