How Crawly Reduced Blocks and Improved Scraping Efficiency with Infatica
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Executive Summary
Founded in 2017, Crawly is a web data extraction company specializing in scalable crawlers for e-commerce, real estate, government, and custom automation projects. As their operations grew to process massive volumes of data – at times exceeding 20 terabytes per month – Crawly needed a proxy provider that could deliver high success rates, low latency, and cost-efficiency at scale.
Infatica became a critical partner during a large-scale airline data project, offering reliable residential proxies that reduced costs and improved data delivery speed and accuracy. Crawly has since shifted a good portion of its traffic – currently around 6TB/month – to Infatica, citing exceptional proxy quality, lower block rates, and responsive support. Today, Infatica continues to power Crawly's data infrastructure, helping them deliver robust, API-based solutions across some of the most demanding verticals in web scraping.
About the Client
Web Data Extraction E-Commerce Real Estate Crawly is a Brazil-based data extraction company founded in 2017, specializing in scalable, automated web crawling solutions. The company builds tailored bots and APIs that allow clients to extract structured data from websites that typically lack accessible endpoints – transforming complex web environments into usable data pipelines.
Serving a diverse set of industries – including real estate, e-commerce, and government – Crawly helps clients gather critical market intelligence, automate regulatory compliance tasks, and power internal systems with real-time or periodic data. Their expertise spans both low-level scraping techniques and emerging AI-based automation, enabling them to take on both high-volume and highly customized projects.
The Challenge
As Crawly scaled its data extraction capabilities, it faced increasingly complex challenges in delivering fast, reliable, and cost-effective results for its clients. Joao Drummond, Crawly's CEO, explains: “Our clients are unable to extract the data from websites themselves – often due to anti-bot protections, IP blocks, or rate limits. We can bypass most of the protections and get the information that we need.”
However, Crawly's own infrastructure began to strain under the weight of high-volume projects. One large-scale airline initiative, for example, pushed the company's proxy usage to over 20 terabytes per month, peaking at 30 to 40 million requests per day. Under their previous proxy providers, success rates dropped, costs surged, and data delivery slowed.
“Prior to Infatica, we were not only paying way too much for traffic, but we also had a lower success rate,” the CEO noted. “It was clear we needed a more reliable and scalable solution.”
The Solution
To meet the demands of high-traffic, anti-bot-resistant targets, Crawly turned to Infatica's residential proxy network. Initially adopted during a high-intensity airline data project, Infatica's solution quickly proved its value by delivering higher success rates, lower latencies, and significantly reduced costs.
“We immediately moved a good portion of our traffic to Infatica,” said Crawly's CEO. “It was a bit of a gamble on our part because Infatica was just getting started. But they actually delivered what was promised.”
By using Infatica's ethically sourced residential proxies, Crawly was able to bypass restrictive IP filters and maintain stability across projects involving millions of requests per day. Today, over 6 terabytes of Crawly's monthly traffic flows through Infatica, powering web crawlers for real estate, e-commerce, government, and custom automation use cases.
Support also played a key role in their decision. “Volodymyr Khrinenko, Infatica's VP of Global Partnerships, is very responsive,” the CEO shared. “When I send a message, I get a response back real quick – even across time zones.” The proxy integration process was simple, requiring just a login and port configuration, which enabled Crawly to deploy quickly without engineering overhead.
The Results
Partnering with Infatica brought measurable improvements across Crawly's web data operations. By switching to Infatica's residential proxies, Crawly saw a significant boost in efficiency and reliability, especially on high-volume projects that required stable, block-free access to target websites.
Faster data access Lower-cost information delivery
“Infatica enabled us to get the information faster at a lower cost,” noted Crawly's CEO. “The quality went up and the cost went down.”
Noticeably higher success rates Fewer failures on challenging targets
Previously, Crawly dealt with high traffic expenses and frequent request failures, particularly on challenging targets like airline and e-commerce websites. After migrating to Infatica, their success rates increased noticeably, even when sending tens of millions of requests per day.
Fewer blocks and retries Reduced operational overhead
The company also reduced overhead by avoiding captchas and minimizing the need for retries due to blocked or broken IPs. Infatica's premium proxies helped Crawly avoid the blocks that datacenter IPs usually face.
Operationally, this translated into smoother client delivery. Crawly was able to run ongoing crawlers across real estate and retail platforms in Brazil, delivering weekly and even hourly updates without interruption. As of today, over 6 terabytes of monthly traffic are routed through Infatica, supporting both standard and custom scraping workflows with consistent performance. “Infatica proxies are really premium. They usually don't get the blocks that datacenter IPs do,” the CEO added. “Compared to other providers, we either pay more and get the same – or worse – results.”
Joao Drummond emphasized the strength of the partnership with Infatica, highlighting the consistent performance and trust built over years of collaboration. For Crawly, Infatica is not just a service provider – but a core part of its data delivery infrastructure.
Infatica is our main proxy provider. We run six terabytes – that's a quite hefty volume – and Infatica still delivers what was promised. The quality went up, the cost went down, and we've trusted them ever since.
This trust is so strong that Crawly has considered becoming an Infatica reseller – underscoring not only satisfaction with the service but also belief in its broader value to the web scraping industry.
Future Outlook
As Crawly continues to expand its data extraction and automation capabilities, Infatica remains a key infrastructure partner. With the rise of AI-driven agents, custom crawlers, and high-volume data pipelines, the need for reliable, high-quality proxies has never been more critical.
According to Crawly's CEO, even traditionally more lenient sectors like e-commerce are now stepping up their anti-scraping defenses – adding captchas, rate limits, and IP blocks. “We're seeing a trend,” he noted, “where more e-commerce websites are starting to protect their data more aggressively. That makes premium proxies even more essential.”
Crawly plans to maintain – and potentially grow – its monthly traffic through Infatica. By combining Crawly's technical expertise with Infatica's robust proxy network, the partnership is well-positioned to meet the escalating demands of industries like retail, real estate, and public-sector automation.
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