Smartproxy provides a proxy server rental service that offers access to over 65 million high-quality IP addresses from 195 locations, enabling users to bypass geo-restrictions and IP blocks. This platform facilitates efficient web data collection and scraping, allowing businesses to gather public data quickly and cost-effectively while maintaining anonymity.
Funding
Funding not disclosed
Founders
Product
Problem
Many businesses require access to web data for market research, price monitoring, and other purposes, but are hindered by geo-restrictions, IP blocks, and CAPTCHAs. These obstacles make it difficult to efficiently collect data at scale while maintaining anonymity.
Solution
Smartproxy, now Decodo, provides a comprehensive proxy and web scraping infrastructure designed to facilitate efficient web data collection. The platform offers access to a large pool of ethically-sourced IP addresses from numerous locations, enabling users to bypass geographical restrictions and IP blocks. Decodo's solutions include residential, static residential, mobile, and datacenter proxies, as well as a Site Unblocker tool, catering to various use cases. The platform also offers scraping APIs for eCommerce, web data, SERP, and social media, providing structured data extraction without the complexities of manual coding.
Target Audience
Decodo's primary customers include businesses, data scientists, and researchers who require reliable and scalable web data collection for market analysis, SEO monitoring, ad verification, and other data-driven applications.
Features
- Access to over 65 million ethically-sourced IPs across 195+ locations
- Residential, static residential (ISP), mobile, and datacenter proxy types
- Site Unblocker to bypass CAPTCHAs and IP bans
- Proxy setup tools for easy configuration of authentication, location, and session types
- Web Scraping API for general web data extraction
- SERP Scraping API for collecting search engine results data
- eCommerce Scraping API for structured product data from online marketplaces
- Social Media Scraping API for extracting data from social media platforms
- Free tools including X Browser, Chrome Proxy Extension, Firefox Add-on, and Proxy Checker
- 99.99% uptime and average proxy speed under 0.3 seconds