What are the best US proxies for web scraping public e-commerce and travel data?

Should a scraper rotate its IP on every request?

Rotate for independent page fetches, and hold a sticky session for anything that spans several requests, such as pagination, search filters or a cart. On Lodestate, each new connection usually gets a new IP. To change IP on every request, send one request per connection with keep-alive turned off.

A sticky session keeps one IP for up to 30 minutes, set with the ttl parameter. Use it when a site ties a search or a chosen location to the visitor's IP.

Which US targets need residential IPs, and which need mobile?

Residential IPs cover nearly all public US data; a dedicated carrier port is the exception for mobile versions of a site. Choose the session type by how the target builds its pages.

How much does it cost to scrape 1 TB through US residential proxies?

At Lodestate, 1 TB costs $520, or $0.52/GB: 65% less per GB than the $1.50/GB 1 GB plan. According to Lodestate's price check of 29 October 2026, the median shown price at 1 TB was $1.50/GB across 11 sellers, and Rayobyte showed the lowest at $0.70/GB. Failed connection attempts that never reach the target are not billed. We do not claim to be the cheapest at every size.

How do I connect a scraper to the US gateway?

Send traffic to gw.lodestate.com on port 7777 for HTTP(S) or 7778 for SOCKS5, with targeting written into the username. The examples below check the exit IP first. Before you point them at a real site, read its robots.txt and terms.

curl -x http://USERNAME-country-us:[email protected]:7777 \
  https://api.ipify.org?format=json

import requests

# Same IP for up to 10 minutes (session + ttl)
user = "USERNAME-country-us-session-job42-ttl-10"
proxy = f"http://{user}:[email protected]:7777"
r = requests.get("https://api.ipify.org?format=json",
                 proxies={"http": proxy, "https": proxy}, timeout=30)
print(r.json())

Which data can I scrape through Lodestate proxies?

Public data only: pages anyone can open without logging in, such as prices, product details, fares, search results and business listings. Personal data is off limits, including profiles, contact details and posts tied to a person.

• Follow robots.txt and each site's terms.
• Keep request rates low enough not to slow the site down.
• Never log in to accounts that are not yours.
• Banking, government and payment-portal sites, plus SMTP (email-sending) ports 25, 465 and 587 are blocked.

The full rules are in what is allowed on Lodestate proxies.

Which related jobs share this scraping setup?

Price monitoring and local rank tracking are scraping jobs with a location twist. See best US proxies for price monitoring and best US proxies for local SEO. Providers are ranked on price, KYC and targeting in best US residential proxies in 2026.