Byteful
@byteful
Oct 22
AI agents count on us for web access. We count on you for uptime 🤝
DigitalOcean
@digitalocean
Oct 22
@PicapLatam @ProbablyDatabot @byteful hosts its website and dashboard on App Platform, with managed Postgres replicated near the edge and automatic failover behind it. digitalocean.com/customers/ping…
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Byteful
@byteful
Oct 22
One missing colon can stop a proxy list importing 🔧

Our proxy formatter converts a whole list at once. Paste or upload, it works out the source format on its own, you pick the output, then copy or export.

It rewrites the list. It will not tell you which proxies are live.
Byteful free tool. One missing colon can stop a proxy list importing. The proxy formatter converts a mixed list to socks5h in one go, without testing it. byteful.com/proxy-formatter
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Byteful
@byteful
Oct 22
Replying to @byteful
Free, no account needed: byteful.com/proxy-formatter
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Byteful
@byteful
Oct 20
The Byteful Startup Program is live🚀

Free residential data for three months, then up to 50% off for two years. Three tiers for bootstrapped, VC or accelerator backed, and Y Combinator companies.

Plus a Slack channel with a senior Byteful developer.
Free data for startups. Three months on residential, then founder pricing. A Byteful Startup Program banner shows three tracks: bootstrapped, VC or accelerator, and Y Combinator.
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Byteful
@byteful
Oct 20
Replying to @byteful
Full eligibility and the application forms: byteful.com/startup-program
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Byteful
@byteful
Oct 16
Ten questions worth asking any proxy provider before you buy 📋

How are they billing you, and what counts?
Does unused data expire?
How long does a sticky session really last?
What is the P95, not the average?
When a request fails, are you told why?

Five more in the carousel.
Cover slide for ten questions to ask a proxy provider before you buy, some of them uncomfortable to answer.Questions one to five: how they bill you, whether unused data expires, how long a sticky session really lasts, what the P95 is rather than the average, and whether failures tell you why.
Questions six to ten: whether you can see pool size before committing, what triggers limits, which independent benchmarks they have been in, what targets are blocked, and how IPs were sourced ethically.Closing slide asking which question you would add to the list.
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Byteful
@byteful
Oct 14
A scraping job that works at 100 requests does not automatically work at 100,000 📋

1️⃣ Data consumption at volume
2️⃣ Your timeout
3️⃣ Your concurrency ceiling
4️⃣ Retry strategy, with backoff
5️⃣ Whether you can tell why something failed
Five things worth checking before you scale: data consumption, timeout, concurrency ceiling, retry strategy, and knowing what broke.
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Byteful
@byteful
Oct 12
Introducing TCP/IP Fingerprint Emulation, now live in beta on datacenter and ISP proxies!

Your browser says Windows. Does the TCP handshake agree? 💻

Windows, macOS, Linux, Android or iOS, set per request in your proxy username or once when you export your list.
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Byteful
@byteful
Oct 12
Replying to @byteful
Full details: byteful.com/blog/introduci…
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Byteful retweeted
Zyte
@zytedata
Oct 8
Your TCP handshake can give away which OS you run, whatever your User-Agent says. Joe Dye of @byteful takes #ExtractSummit2026 down to the packets. #WebScraping #Proxies
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Byteful
@byteful
Oct 8
Day two of @zytedata's Extract Summit is underway, and Byteful is here in Austin, Texas!

Today at 12:00pm, our founding engineer Joe Dye takes the stage at Brazos Hall for a talk on TCP/IP fingerprint emulation🫆

Come and say hello before or after👋
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Byteful
@byteful
Oct 1
Byteful accounts now support organizations 👥

A shared workspace for your team with its own proxies, billing and API keys. Each member gets a role, so no more sharing one password.

API keys can be scoped to specific actions with an expiry date, which is what you want when an agent holds the key.
Byteful Organizations launch. Shared team workspaces with member roles and scoped API keys, shown in the dashboard workspace switcher.Creating an organization gives a team its own proxies, billing and members, while your personal account stays independent.
API keys can be unrestricted with full access, or fine-grained with selected permissions and an expiration date.Existing accounts are already personal workspaces, with billing, proxy users and API keys intact. Nothing to migrate.
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Byteful
@byteful
Sep 30
Scheduled maintenance from 9 to 11am BST today 🛠

During this window, API services will be intermittently accessible and the dashboard may be temporarily unavailable. Existing proxies will continue to work as normal.

Live status: status.byteful.com
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Byteful
@byteful
Sep 30
Replying to @byteful
We've extended this window by one hour, to midday BST today⏰ This change is to ensure as minimal disruption as possible to our API.

Proxy network services remain unaffected during the window.
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Byteful
@byteful
Sep 30
Unlimited concurrent sessions means there is no concurrency tier to buy 🔓

No plan-level cap to hit, no upgrade to reach for. You pay for data or for IPs, not for how many requests run at once.

Fair usage safeguards still exist for traffic that threatens stability. Rarely triggered.
Cover slide on unlimited concurrent sessions at Byteful, and what unlimited actually means.Byteful sells no concurrency tier on residential, ISP or datacenter. You pay for data or for IPs, not for how many requests run at once.
Unlimited concurrency means no tier and no plan-level cap. It does not mean no safeguards: fair use protections cover traffic that threatens network stability.Unlimited concurrency across residential, ISP and datacenter, with fair use safeguards for genuine abuse rather than normal scaling.
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Byteful
@byteful
Sep 24
Smartpath decides in under 10ms whether a request actually needs a residential IP.

If it does, it uses residential. If it does not, the request can go through datacenter instead without consuming residential data.

Most request latency comes after that routing decision.
Smartpath saved over 40% of residential data consumption on average in a Byteful test across 10,000 pages in July 2025.The test covered 10,000 real pages across Amazon, Reddit, Footlocker, ASOS, Target, Redfin, Trustpilot and Bloomberg.
Smartpath assesses each request in under 10ms. Requests needing residential stay on residential; the rest route through datacenter without consuming residential data.A page loads more than its main HTML request, the routing decision happens per request in under 10ms, and savings depend on what each page actually needs.
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Byteful
@byteful
Sep 22
SOCKS5 has been standardised since 1996 and defines three commands 🔌

CONNECT for TCP. BIND when the client needs to accept a connection back. UDP ASSOCIATE for UDP datagrams.

It can also pass a hostname to the proxy for proxy-side DNS resolution instead of resolving locally.
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Byteful
@byteful
Sep 10
OS Targeting is live on residential and mobile proxies 💻

Route your traffic through a Windows, Linux or Android device. Add os_windows, os_linux or os_android to your username, or pick it in the dashboard.

Live IP counts per OS, same as the location filters.
OS Targeting in beta. Append an os parameter to your proxy username to route through a Windows, Linux or Android device, on residential and mobile proxies.
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Byteful
@byteful
Sep 9
Every response carries its own debugging trail 🔎

A Byteful status code for what happened, and a request ID you can search in the live activity viewer to pull up the request details.

For HTTPS we can't surface the target's own status code. TLS keeps it encrypted, so you get the failure we observed.
Cover slide for Proxy 101 episode six, on what happens when a proxy request fails and the debugging trail it leaves behind.Every Byteful response carries two debugging headers: x-byteful-status-code for what happened, and x-byteful-request-id to find the request in Live Activity.
Six failure buckets on a request path. Five point to a specific cause, from credentials through to the target refusing. The sixth is a broader server or network error.TLS keeps an HTTPS target's response encrypted, so Byteful reports the failure it observed while connecting or transmitting rather than the target's own HTTP status code.
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Byteful
@byteful
Sep 3
More precise targeting isn't always better 🎯

Country-level targeting gives you a broader pool. Add city, state, ZIP or ASN filters and you further limit the eligible IPs.

Our docs recommend country unless you specifically need city, and leaving ASN off unless you need a arrier.
Cover slide arguing that more precise proxy targeting is not always better, since every filter narrows the pool you draw from.Start at country level for the widest pool and fewest surprises. Add a narrower filter only when something actually needs it.
Country level suits almost everything. City, ZIP or ASN is worth adding when content differs by location or you need a particular network or carrier.
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