Web ScrapingIntermediate
IP Rotation
The practice of automatically cycling through multiple IP addresses so successive requests appear to originate from different users.
Full Definition
IP rotation is the technique of sending each request (or a batch of requests) from a different IP address drawn from a pool, so that from the target website's perspective, traffic looks like it originates from many different users rather than one source. This prevents IP-based rate limiting and bans from triggering. Rotation can happen on every request (high rotation), every N requests, on a time interval (e.g. every 10 minutes), or on failure. Backconnect proxy providers handle rotation transparently on their infrastructure; DIY setups maintain a proxy list and cycle through it in the scraping code.
