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Stealth Mode routes your scrape and crawl requests through a network of residential proxies, making them appear to come from real users in real locations. Use it when a site blocks direct requests, requires a specific country IP, or shows different content based on location.

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When to Use It

  • The target site returns CAPTCHA pages or blocks automated requests
  • You need to see prices, content, or search results from a specific country
  • The site detects and blocks datacenter IPs
  • You’re scraping a site that uses bot-protection services like Cloudflare or Akamai

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How to Enable It

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In the Playground

Toggle Stealth Mode in the Advanced Configuration section. Once enabled, a country selector appears — pick a specific country, choose Europe Mix to rotate across EU member states, or leave it on Worldwide for no preference.

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Via API

Add "useProxy": true to any scrape or crawl request. Optionally add "proxyCountry" to target a specific location. 
{
  "urls": [{"url": "https://amazon.de/dp/B123456"}],
  "prompt": "Extract the product price in euros",
  "output": "json",
  "useProxy": true,
  "proxyCountry": "de"
}

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Country Targeting

Pass "proxyCountry" with any of the values below. Omitting proxyCountry (or setting it to "global") lets Spidra pick the best available exit node with no location preference. Setting it to "eu" rotates randomly across all 27 EU member states on each request — useful when you need a European IP but don’t care which specific country. For a specific country, use its two-letter ISO code:
CodeCountryCodeCountryCodeCountry
usUnited StatesdeGermanyjpJapan
gbUnited KingdomfrFranceauAustralia
caCanadabrBrazilinIndia
nlNetherlandssgSingaporeesSpain
itItalymxMexicozaSouth Africa
ngNigeriaarArgentinabeBelgium
chSwitzerlandclChilecnChina
coColombiaczCzech RepublicdkDenmark
egEgyptfiFinlandgrGreece
hkHong KonghuHungaryidIndonesia
ieIrelandilIsraelkrSouth Korea
myMalaysianoNorwaynzNew Zealand
pePeruphPhilippinesplPoland
ptPortugalroRomaniasaSaudi Arabia
seSwedenthThailandtrTurkey
twTaiwanuaUkrainevnVietnam

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Examples

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Scraping geo-restricted content

{
  "urls": [{"url": "https://example.com/pricing"}],
  "prompt": "Extract the pricing tiers and amounts",
  "output": "json",
  "useProxy": true,
  "proxyCountry": "us"
}

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Crawling with a European IP

{
  "baseUrl": "https://example.eu/products",
  "crawlInstruction": "Find all product pages",
  "transformInstruction": "Extract product name and price in EUR",
  "maxPages": 10,
  "useProxy": true,
  "proxyCountry": "eu"
}

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No country preference

{
  "urls": [{"url": "https://example.com"}],
  "prompt": "Extract the main content",
  "output": "json",
  "useProxy": true
}

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Billing

Stealth Mode is billed against your bandwidth quota, not your credit balance. Each request routed through the proxy network consumes bandwidth (measured in MB) based on the size of the pages fetched. There is no extra per-URL credit charge for enabling useProxy. Monthly bandwidth included per plan:
PlanIncluded bandwidth
Free50 MB
Starter500 MB
Builder2 GB
Pro5 GB
If you run out of bandwidth mid-cycle, proxy requests are paused until your quota renews or you purchase a top-up. You can monitor your bandwidth usage from the Usage page in the dashboard.

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Crawl API reference

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