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How do proxies assist with scraping Reddit data safely?

Hi devs! I’m currently building a sentiment analysis tool to collect comment threads from public subreddits for a research project. What’s the best way to avoid hitting strict IP rate limits when sending frequent HTTP requests?

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Adding random delay intervals between requests along with IP rotation works wonders. It prevents your script from triggering basic rate-limiting rules.

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