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Instant search results data
Gather top 10 organic search results for AI agents in milliseconds.
Video & audio data
Collect massive volumes of multimodal video and audio data for model training.
Web data from any website
Scrape rich and structured web data for model training or RAG pipelines.
Browser automation
Let AI agents navigate, automate, and extract web data from the toughest targets.
Web index data
Retrieve up-to-date, pre-indexed web content for RAG and agentic workflows in sub-second.
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Latest fixes and features.
A 502 Bad Gateway error indicates that Cloudflare received an invalid response from the origin server. By emulating browser behavior, proxy servers and scrapers can help reduce the frequency of this error, but they are not a guaranteed fix.
Some of the most common causes of 502 Bad Gateway error message include the server being down, server overload, firewall interruptions, or scraping activity that triggers rate limits. Sending too many requests too quickly – especially without proper headers or delays – can lead Cloudflare to hinder traffic, resulting in this error.
If you’re sending too many requests from a single IP, Cloudflare may flag this activity as suspicious and return a 502 error page. Rotating proxies help by distributing requests across a pool of IP addresses, reducing the load per IP and lowering the chances of triggering rate limits or other interruptions.
By using IP addresses from real devices, residential proxies make your scraping traffic look more legitimate. This helps navigate Cloudflare's protection layer, which is often triggered by unnatural request patterns. Learn more about proxy error codes and how to address such cases on our blog.
Using low-quality or overused IPs can increase the chances of triggering common error codes like 502. Best proxy providers offer ethically-sourced IPs, smart rotation, and geographic flexibility, all of which can help maintain stable connections and reliable web scraping performance.
Oxylabs’ Web Scraper API is specifically designed to handle most common error codes like Cloudflare 502 by managing proxy rotation, retries, headers, and everything else for you. Forget about interruptions and extract large volumes of public data from even the most complex targets hassle-free.
Proxy management
Let ML-driven infrastructure handle proxies from a pool of 195 geo-locations for specific targets.
Custom parameters
Customize API behavior for your specific needs with custom headers and cookies.
AI-powered fingerprinting
Outsmart complex web systems with AI-picked IPs, headers, cookies, and WebRTC properties.
Automatic retries
Improve and simplify your processes with automatic retries of failed requests with different scraping parameters.
Custom parser
Define custom parsing instructions and retrieve parsed data in JSON format.
Custom browser instructions
Render JavaScript-reliant pages with a single code line and perform browser actions like clicking, scrolling, and more.
Web crawler
Crawl any site from top to bottom, select useful data, and fetch it in bulk.
Scheduler
Have your scraping projects run at any schedule, automatically deliver scraped data, and get notifications.
