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Proxy Fundamentals

Pay Per Crawl and the Licensed Web: When Access Becomes a Transaction

A 402 Payment Required in your crawl logs is a status code most engineers have never seen in production. Cloudflare wired it up in 2025 to let publishers charge crawlers per request, and the mechanics say a lot about where web access is heading. This post explains the signalling flow, the standards work behind machine-payable HTTP, the arguments against it, and how the cost of licensed access compares to running a crawl.

August 26, 2026 · 8 min read

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Proxy Fundamentals

Web Bot Auth: Cryptographic Identity for Crawlers and AI Agents

Aug 24, 2026 · 8 min read

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Network Performance

Self-Hosted n8n: What Changes When Your Workflows Have One IP Address

Aug 21, 2026 · 9 min read

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Scraping Techniques

n8n Web Scraping: Which Node, Which Mode, and What It Costs

Aug 21, 2026 · 10 min read

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Setup Guides

Using Proxies in n8n: The HTTP Request Node, Sessions and Rotation

Aug 21, 2026 · 10 min read

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Setup Guides

Build a Scraping MCP Server in n8n With the MCP Server Trigger

Aug 21, 2026 · 11 min read

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Setup Guides

n8n and MCP: Four Different Things With the Same Name

Aug 21, 2026 · 9 min read

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Access Challenges

__cf_bm, _abck, datadome: A Field Guide to Anti-Bot Cookies

Aug 19, 2026 · 8 min read

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Proxy Fundamentals

How Proxy Traffic Gets Detected: The Network-Layer Signals

Aug 17, 2026 · 8 min read

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Access Challenges

CAPTCHA Solver Farms: The Economics and Ethics Nobody Puts in the Docs

Aug 17, 2026 · 8 min read

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Proxy Fundamentals

AI Agent Traffic Is Not Crawler Traffic: The Distinction Sites Are Learning to Make

Aug 14, 2026 · 8 min read

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Scraping Techniques

Verified Bots: How Googlebot Proves It's Googlebot

Aug 12, 2026 · 8 min read

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Tool Guides

13 Proxy Scrapers & Free Proxy Lists (2026)

Aug 11, 2026 · 14 min read

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