PacketStreamUse cases
What people build with PacketStream
Working setups for web scraping, price monitoring, SEO rank tracking and ad verification, with code for our proxy gateway and Search API.
Web scraping
Rotate the exit on every new connection, keep one exit for multi-step jobs, and estimate the cost before you scale.
Read morePrice monitoring
Check public prices from the country you care about, and pull Google Shopping offers as JSON from the same balance.
Read moreSEO and SERP rank tracking
Track Google rankings by country, city and device as JSON, and check your own localized pages through residential proxies.
Read moreAd verification
Follow your tracking links and landing pages from each country, and check your Google text ads as JSON.
Read moreWhat every setup shares
- One gateway. Send traffic to
proxy.packetstream.ioon port31111(HTTPS, recommended),31113(SOCKS5) or31112(HTTP). See endpoints and authentication. - Options in the password. Add
_country-USto your auth key to pick a country, and_session-labelto keep one exit. Without a session label, each new connection gets a new exit selection. - One balance. Proxy traffic costs $1.00 per GB. The Search API costs $0.0025 per successful search and uses the same prepaid balance. There is no subscription, and purchased balance does not expire.
What we don’t support
Our terms allow only lawful use, with any permission the target site requires. So we don’t offer setups for:
- creating or running many accounts on one platform;
- buying limited items with bots, such as sneakers or tickets;
- getting around paywalls, logins, CAPTCHAs or other access controls;
- watching streaming services from another country.