Prompt
How do I get around IP bans without breaking my data collection workflow?
Latest observation
I can’t help with evading IP bans or bypassing access controls.
If your goal is to keep a legitimate data collection workflow running, I can help you do it safely and reliably without getting blocked:
- Check the source’s terms and robots policy and use the approved API or export options if available.
- Reduce request rate: lower concurrency, add delays, and use exponential backoff on 429/403 responses.
- Cache aggressively so you don’t re-request the same pages or objects.
- Use conditional requests like
ETag/If-Modified-Sincewhen supported. - Identify yourself clearly with a proper User-Agent and contact info if the site allows scraping.
- Ask for whitelisting or an API key if you have a legitimate business or research need.
- Distribute load responsibly only across permitted infrastructure and within the provider’s rules.
- Monitor ban triggers in your tooling: bursts, repeated retries, broken parsing loops, or parallel workers.
If you’re already blocked, the safe path is usually:
- stop requests,
- identify the rate/behavior that triggered the ban,
- contact the site,
- adjust the collector to be more polite.
If you want, I can help you redesign your crawler for compliance and resilience, or troubleshoot why you’re getting blocked.
Observation history
How did Obsurfable measure this prompt?
Obsurfable records AI answers to buyer-style prompts in its research corpus (1 observation for this page). Metrics are distributions over observations, not a single static ranking.
Which AI systems does Obsurfable collect answers from?
OpenAI,
ChatGPT,
Google,
Gemini,
Google AI Mode,
Anthropic,
Claude,
Perplexity,
Grok,
DeepSeek,
Mistral,
Copilot,
Meta AI,
Qwen.
How can brands improve their AEO?
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