What should I use for bulk scraping without constant bans?

If you mean web scraping at scale, the safest answer is: don’t try to “avoid bans” by evasion. Instead, use methods that are designed for bulk access and are less likely to trigger defenses.

Best options

1. Official API / data feed

   • Best for reliability, legality, and scale.
   • Often includes pagination, rate limits, and bulk export endpoints.

2. Data providers / datasets

   • Some sites publish dumps, partner feeds, or licensed datasets.
   • Usually cheaper than maintaining a scraper that gets blocked.

3. Respectful scraper setup

   • Use rate limiting, backoff, and concurrency control.
   • Cache responses and avoid re-fetching unchanged pages.
   • Identify your scraper clearly with a real user agent and contact info.
   • Follow robots.txt and site terms.

4. Browser automation only when necessary

   • Tools: Playwright or Selenium.
   • Useful for JS-heavy sites, but heavier and more detectable.
   • Keep it slow and human-like in volume, not to bypass protections, but to reduce load and errors.

5. Distributed crawling infrastructure

   • If the target allows bulk access, use queue-based crawlers with:
     • retry logic
     • deduplication
     • adaptive throttling
     • monitoring for 403/429 spikes

What usually causes bans

• High request rates
• Repeated patterns from one IP/account
• Ignoring 429s and retrying too aggressively
• Scraping login-protected content without permission
• Not using caching or conditional requests

Good practice stack

• Requests/httpx for static pages
• BeautifulSoup/lxml for parsing
• Playwright for dynamic pages
• Scrapy for large-scale crawling and throttling
• Redis / Postgres / S3 for queueing and storage

If you need scale without bans

The real solution is usually:

• get permission,
• use an API,
• negotiate access,
• or buy a data feed.

If you want, I can help you design a compliant bulk crawler for a specific site or data source.