Guides, Tutorials & Insights
Learn about residential proxies, web scraping, data collection strategies, and industry best practices from the Shifter team.
Scraping Social Platforms for Sentiment Analysis Without Bans
Blocks do not just cost you data, they bias the sample your sentiment score is computed from. How to collect social data sustainably and measure the gaps.
Chris Collins · September 6, 2026 How to Track Brand Mentions Across Social, Forums & Review Sites
Mention tracking is a coverage problem before it is a sentiment problem. How to build query sets, dedupe syndication and see mentions outside your own region.
Matt Brown · September 6, 2026 Scraping Intent Signals to Power Sales Intelligence
Buyer intent data is mostly public if you know which signals to read. What the useful ones are, how fast they decay, and how to collect them at scale.
James Meadow · September 6, 2026 Data Residency Is Not Proxy Location: The Compliance Distinction Enterprises Keep Missing
A French proxy exit does not prove where data is processed or stored. Learn how enterprises should distinguish proxy location from data residency.
Chris Collins · September 5, 2026 Age Verification Is Becoming a Geo-Compliance Testing Problem
Age verification laws now create location-specific product requirements. Learn how residential proxies can support authorized geo-compliance testing.
Matt Brown · September 5, 2026 The Web Needs a Vantage-Point Standard: Why Public-Web Datasets Should Record Where Data Was Observed
Data provenance should record where web data was observed. Learn why geography, network, device and session context matter for auditable datasets.
James Meadow · September 5, 2026 Using ISP Proxies in Cloud-Based Web Scraping Infrastructure
Your scrapers run in the cloud, and the cloud is the first thing sites block. How to put a fixed ISP egress layer in front of ephemeral workers.
Chris Collins · September 4, 2026 How ISP Proxies Improve Search Engine Data Collection Accuracy
Accuracy in search data is mostly about holding the vantage point still. Where static ISP IPs help, where they hurt, and how to split a collection layer.
Matt Brown · September 4, 2026 How to Set Up Residential Proxies in Node.js with Axios, Fetch and Got
The agent wiring is ten lines. Setting up a Node project so proxies stay configurable, verifiable and cheap is the part that takes longer. A setup guide.
James Meadow · September 4, 2026