Terms

  • Client: Your machine running the scraping code. It connects to the Super Proxy to request URLs you wish to scrape.
  • Super Proxy: Bright Data Super Proxy that distributes your requests through the Bright Data network to the Bright Data Proxy Peers.
  • Proxy Peer: The final device that sends your URL request to the target website. This is the IP that the website sees, it is a device that is part of the huge Bright Data P2P network. It is a regular home PC, mobile phone or tablet, typically behind DSL, Cable Modem, or WiFi.
  • DC (datacenter) Proxy Peer: The final device that sends your URL request to the target website. This is the IP that the website sees, it is an IP that is part of the huge Bright Data datacenter network.

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