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@byteful

Unblock the web. Ethical proxy infrastructure for AI agents and web scrapers.
Manchester, UK byteful.com Joined September 2018
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Give an automation only the API access it needs 🔑

Byteful API actions can be scoped individually. A script that generates proxies gets a key that only generates proxies, with an expiry date if you want one.

If a key leaks, the damage stops where its permissions do.
Unrestricted vs. fine-grained API keys. Two key types, and which one fits each job.
Setup: unrestricted keys work straight away with nothing to configure. Fine-grained keys need permissions chosen individually or by group. Unrestricted wins on convenience.
If a key leaks: whoever has an unrestricted key can do what the workspace can. With a fine-grained key, the damage stops where its permissions do.
Which key should you use? Fine-grained for a proxy-generating script, a checkout agent or a contractor with an expiry. Unrestricted for an integration you have not revisited.
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Measure the workload before you buy data 📊

Counting requests gives a rough guess. Measuring data per successful result is what to size a tier on, since payload, rendering and retries are already in it.

Residential and mobile data does not expire on Byteful.
Measure the workload before you buy the data. Two ways to estimate how much data a job will use. Slide to explore.
Counting requests: multiply your request count by a typical page size. Quick, but it misses response weight, page rendering and the retries behind each result.
Measuring per result: run a sample of the real workload and divide the bytes transferred by the usable results, with payload, rendering and retries already included.
Size your tier on real traffic. Live Activity shows bytes per request, the dashboard shows data over time, and residential and mobile data does not expire. dashboard.byteful.com
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Test a proxy from where you will actually use it 🌍

Our proxy tester runs the same proxies from servers across the US, Europe and Asia at once, against a target you choose. Results per region, with status codes.

Works on any provider's proxies. Free, no account needed.
Test from more than one region. Any proxy, tested from the US, Europe and Asia at once: a diagram of one proxy linked to three test servers. Free without an account. byteful.com/proxy-tester