Rotating Proxy
A proxy that automatically assigns a different IP address from a pool for each request or on a set interval, spreading traffic to avoid blocks.
Full Definition
A rotating proxy is any proxy setup that automatically switches the outgoing IP address either on every request, after a fixed number of requests, or after a time interval. The rotation can be handled by the scraping code (cycling through a list of proxies) or by a backconnect gateway that rotates internally on each connection. Rotating proxies are essential for high-volume scraping because they prevent any single IP from accumulating enough requests to trigger rate limiting or blocks. The two modes — rotating (new IP every request) and sticky (same IP for a session) — serve different use cases: rotating for single-page data extraction, sticky for multi-step workflows.
