Stop Retry Storms in Scraping Agents

Your Scraper Works. Your Bill Doesn't.

Scraping pain patterns we detect:

🔄 Same request repeated 10x in <1min — Apify retry loop
📈 Exponential backoff loops — SerpAPI 429 storms
🔁 Serial retries after transient failures — Firecrawl timeout loops
💀 Pagination stuck on same page — scraping budget control gone

🔄 agent.retry() in infinite loop

while True: scrape() — except you didn't write that. The LLM did.

💸 SerpAPI: $50/1000 × retry_count

429 → exponential backoff → backoff too aggressive. $89 in 20 minutes.

😱 No kill switch

Ctrl+C doesn't work when it's running on a server. You notice at 3am.

"Every scraping dev has that 3am moment when an agent loops and the bill explodes."

— The problem ProceedGate solves

Block Retries Before `scrape()` Runs

1

gate.check() before scrape()

One check before each API call.

2

Detect: same_request > 10x/min

Patterns tracked in real-time. No config needed.

3

Return 429 → Agent stops

Retry storm blocked. Your wallet survives.

{
  "allowed": false,
  "error": "loop_detected",
  "pattern_count": 12,
  "reason": "Same scraping request repeated 12x in 47 seconds",
  "action": "firecrawl_scrape"
}

💰 Estimated savings: $8.40

10×/min

Threshold — anything above this gets blocked instantly

Copy-Paste Integration

3 lines of code to protect your scraping budget.

        scraper.ts
      

import { ProceedGate } from '@proceedgate/sdk';

const gate = new ProceedGate({ apiKey: 'pg_ws_...' });

// Before your scraping call
async function scrapeWithProtection(url: string) {
  const check = await gate.check({
    user_id: 'agent-1',
    action: 'firecrawl_scrape',
    cost: 1,  // 1 credit per scrape
    metadata: { url }
  });

  if (!check.allowed) {
    console.log(`🚫 Blocked: ${check.error}`);
    console.log(`💰 Saved: $${check.cost_saved}`);
    return null;
  }

  // Safe to proceed
  return await firecrawl.scrape(url);
}
      

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Works With Your Scraping Stack

Built for scraping agents. Also works for research & web automation.

🐝

Apify

Actor retries = $$$

Why Not Just Use Rate Limiting?

	Generic Rate Limiting	ProceedGate
Detects retry loops	❌ No	✅ Yes
Tracks cost saved	❌ No	✅ Yes
Per-agent budgets	❌ No	✅ Yes
Webhooks on blocks	❌ No	✅ Yes
Works across tools	❌ Tool-specific	✅ Universal
Setup time	Hours/days	5 minutes

Stop building your own scraping budget control. We did it for you.