proxy-finderlisted

# Proxy finder Works out what a specific site actually requires, prices every route to the data including the ones that are not proxies, and tells you the cheapest thing that genuinely works. **Scope note, because "check the site's security" is ambiguous.** This examines a site's **bot-defence posture** — what will block an automated client, how it responds to plain requests, what its robots.txt permits, how heavy its pages are. That is a scraping-feasibility question. It is not a vulnerability assessment, and this skill does not probe for weaknesses, test inputs, or look for exploitable flaws in someone else's site. If that is what you need, it is a different job requiring the site owner's written authorisation. ## The one idea that organises everything below **The cheapest proxy is the weakest one that is not blocked — and quite often the answer is not a proxy at all.** Two failures follow from getting this wrong, and they are not symmetrical: - **Under-buying is loud.** Datacenter IPs against a protected site fail immediately, you see it, you fix it. Annoying, cheap, self-correcting. - **Over-buying is silent.** Residential proxies work on everything, so nobody ever discovers that datacenter IPs at a tenth of the price would have worked fine. The bill just arrives, forever. Almost everyone lands on the expensive side, because the expensive option is the one that always works and nobody gets fired for buying it. The job here is to find the floor rather than confi