Which cities can I target?

City targeting is available on ARC Basic, ARC Fast and ARC Ultra across a published list of metros in twelve countries, including Berlin, Munich, Hamburg, London, Manchester, New York, Chicago, Paris, Milan, Tokyo, Toronto, Sydney, Amsterdam, Warsaw and São Paulo. Country targeting covers 185+ countries. ARC Mobile has no city targeting.

How do I keep a paginated search on one IP?

Add a session handle to the username. The same _session- value returns the same exit IP for the minutes you set in _sesstime-, so pages one through twenty of a search read as one visitor rather than twenty unrelated ones.

Do I need residential IPs for property portals?

Often not. Many listing pages are plain HTML served the same way to any address, and ARC Basic covers those at our lowest price per GB while still targeting the city. Move a specific portal to ARC Fast when you see failures on it that you cannot otherwise explain.

Can I collect images as well as listing text?

Yes, but price it deliberately: billing is per gigabyte, and images are usually an order of magnitude heavier than the HTML around them. The usual pattern is to block images during discovery and fetch them only for records you decide to keep.

Use case · Real estate & jobs

Proxies for real-estate and job-market data

Property portals and job boards rank by where the visitor is, and often refuse to show a national view at all. Collect each metro from an IP inside it so your index reflects the local market rather than your server's postcode.

Get started See pricing

Pay per GB · No subscription · Prices in EUR, excl. VAT

Illustration. The URLs and values are fictional; the connection string is the real grammar.

€0.75
per GB on ARC Basic, excl. VAT: −21%
at 1 TB (€0.59 / GB): 185+
countries, city targeting: Never
expires — no subscription

The problem

What goes wrong without the right IPs

The default view is local, not national

Open a portal from Frankfurt and you get Frankfurt. Building a national index from one location means the long tail of smaller markets is either missing or ranked as an afterthought.

Currency, unit and language switch on you

Square metres become square feet, prices switch currency, and the listing template changes with the locale. Normalising afterwards is guesswork; collecting from the right market avoids it.

Salary bands are shown regionally

Job boards adjust posted ranges, and sometimes whether a range is shown at all, by the visitor's region. A single collection point flattens exactly the variable you wanted to measure.

Refresh cadence is the product

A listing index is only worth what its freshness is. Daily refresh across dozens of metros is a bandwidth question, which is why the price per GB decides whether the coverage is affordable.

Listings vanish

A property goes under offer and the page disappears. If the run that would have caught it queued behind a rate-limited address, the gap is permanent — there is nothing to re-fetch.

Setup

Recommended setup

City targeting is what makes this work, so stay on the rotating pools — ARC Mobile has no city targeting.

Plan	Role	Session	Targeting	Price
ARC Basic Rotating ISP	Default for listing pages Listing and search-result pages are mostly HTML, and ARC Basic carries city targeting at our lowest price per GB. This is where the bulk of a daily refresh belongs.	Rotating	Country + city	€0.75 / GB €0.59 at 1 TB (−21%)
ARC Fast Rotating residential	For portals that need a consumer IP Real residential exits in the metro itself. A sticky handle keeps a paginated search on one IP, so the result set stays coherent from page one to page twenty.	Sticky, 10 minutes per metro	Country + city	€2.00 / GB €1.12 at 1 TB (−44%)

Prices are list prices in EUR, excl. VAT. Volume discounts apply automatically at checkout — full ladder on the pricing page.

Illustration

What daily refresh across 40 metros costs

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Assumptions

Metros: 40
Listings per metro: 2,500
Cadence: once a day
Page weight: 150 KB, images blocked
Bandwidth per month: ≈ 450 GB

On ARC Basic

€292.50per month, excl. VAT

450 GB bought in one purchase at €0.65 / GB (−13% volume rung, applied automatically).

The same 450 GB on ARC Fast: €558.00 at €1.24 / GB. Route only the jobs that need it through the pricier pool.

Images are the whole cost story here. Blocking them on the listing pages and fetching them only for the records you keep is usually the difference between an affordable index and an unaffordable one.

Bandwidth never expires, so a bigger single purchase is only ever cheaper per GB. See the ladder.

Works with anything that takes a proxy URL

Scrapy
Python requests / httpx
Playwright
Crawlee
n8n
Docker

FAQ

Questions

Something not covered? Write to contact@arcproxies.io.

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Web scraping

A second provider that just works — Scrapy, requests, Crawlee or Playwright, self-serve, no sales call, bandwidth that never expires.

AI training data

Collect public web text, images and product data at corpus scale from residential and ISP IPs, paid per gigabyte with no monthly commitment.

Alternative data

Turn public listings, pricing and hiring signals into a time series your models can trade on — collected on schedule, from the market you are modelling.

Price monitoring

See the price a shopper in Berlin, Lyon or Chicago sees. ISP bandwidth at our lowest price per GB for HTML checks, residential where a marketplace is strict.