Web Scraping Proxy Playbook: From "Works Locally" to Surviving Cloudflare in Production
Your web scraping proxy setup works flawlessly on your laptop. You ship it to a cloud server, and suddenly you're drowning in 403 errors, CAPTCHAs, and mysterious timeouts. This is the "works locally, fails in production" trap—and it catches nearly e...
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