Social platforms and marketplaces are built mobile-first and hostile to datacenter traffic. We build and run the scraper on real dedicated 4G/5G carrier IPs - the network these platforms actually expect their users to arrive from - and deliver the public fields you scope as structured data on a flat monthly retainer.
Public data only - and we prove it before you commit. Point us at your single hardest social or marketplace target and we will return real extracted rows in a paid pilot before you sign a retainer. We decline anything requiring account-takeover or ToS-violating authentication.
Social platforms and marketplaces are the most mobile-native properties on the web - and their defenses are tuned accordingly. Datacenter traffic is treated as hostile by default, and some endpoints are effectively app-only: the data simply is not served the way a desktop scraper on a datacenter range expects to fetch it.
General-purpose scraping APIs benchmark poorly on these targets - some fail hard social and marketplace targets outright - because their pools exit through exactly the IP classes these platforms ban first. The result is the familiar cycle: credits burned on blocked responses, feeds that quietly go stale, and an engineer on your team babysitting retries.
Benchmark observations as of mid-2026 - verify against your own targets; the pilot exists precisely for that.
Data Works takes the whole problem off your desk: we build the scraper, run it on the right network, watch it, and repair it when the platform changes - you just receive the data.
The public fields you scope, at your cadence, in the format your stack already speaks.
The public fields you scope - posts, prices, seller, ratings, availability - defined together on the scoping call, extracted exactly as agreed.
On your schedule. The pipeline runs on real mobile IPs that match how the platform expects to be accessed, so the feed keeps flowing instead of rotting.
Structured data lands where you want it - JSON, CSV, Google Sheet, S3, webhook, or straight into your DB. Markup changes are our problem to fix, not yours.
Mobile-native platforms trust mobile networks - that is where their real users live. Their anti-bot stacks decide on IP reputation before any challenge or fingerprint check, and datacenter IPs are the first thing they ban. Residential ranges fare little better once they have been bought, abused and burned across the pools that resell them.
A real carrier CGNAT IP is different in kind, not degree: it is shared with millions of ordinary phone users, so the platform cannot blocklist it wholesale without blocking its own customers. Your requests exit through our dedicated 4G/5G modems - traffic that looks like a phone because it is one. That is the mechanism, and we explain it in full in our anti-bot deep dive. It is not a trick, and we will not promise "bypass anything" - we prove it on your target instead.
We are honest about the trade: our owned, dedicated modems - 500+ we operate ourselves on real carriers - live in ~6 core countries, and our SDK peer network of real devices extends reach across 100+ countries and growing, over 1M IPs in total. So geography is no longer the gap. What we still concede to a Bright Data (72M IPs) or Oxylabs (~20M IPs) is raw pool size, SOC2/ISO certifications and a mature data marketplace - if your project turns on those, they are the right call and we will say so. Our lane is hard social and marketplace targets, delivered as data.
No case studies to name-drop yet - so we prove it instead. Point us at your single hardest social or marketplace target: the mobile-gated marketplace your current tool keeps failing, the platform feed that silently went stale. Before you commit to a retainer, we run a paid pilot and show you real extracted rows, typically within days of scoping - not a multi-week statement of work.
If we cannot crack it, you do not proceed. And if your target turns out to be trivial, we will tell you to use a cheaper tool and save your money.
Public data only. This page - and this service - is squarely about legitimate collection of publicly available data. Private accounts, closed groups and DMs are out of scope, full stop.
No auth you do not own. We decline anything requiring account-takeover or ToS-violating authentication. If collecting the data needs credentials you do not legitimately hold, we will not take the project.
Two coverage tiers, labeled honestly. Owned, dedicated modems - 500+ we operate ourselves - in ~6 core countries; an SDK peer network of real devices across 100+ countries and growing for breadth. If you need Bright Data-scale IP volume or SOC2/ISO certifications, we will point you to a provider who has them rather than pretend.
Compliance confirmed up front. Scope and your right to collect the data are confirmed on the scoping call, before any pilot runs.
Every Data Works retainer is custom-quoted per project on target difficulty, number of sources and volume - one flat monthly number. Just want the raw proxies? The same real carrier IPs are available self-serve from $4/GB (down to $2.40 at volume) - start here.
Proxy pricing verified July 2026. Retainers are custom-quoted per project via the scoping form.
No. This service is strictly for publicly available data. We decline anything that requires account-takeover, borrowed logins, or ToS-violating authentication - if collecting it needs credentials you do not legitimately own, we will not take the project.
These platforms are mobile-first: most of their real users arrive over carrier networks, so their anti-bot stacks trust mobile IP ranges and ban datacenter ranges first. A real carrier CGNAT IP is shared with millions of ordinary phone users, so it cannot be blocklisted wholesale without blocking real customers.
The public fields you scope - posts, prices, seller, ratings, availability - at your cadence, delivered as JSON, CSV, Google Sheet, S3, webhook, or straight into your database. When the platform changes its markup, fixing the pipeline is our problem, not yours.
We prove it before you commit: a paid pilot on your single hardest social or marketplace target, returning real extracted rows within days. If we cannot crack it, you do not proceed to a retainer.
Two tiers. For the hardest targets we run 500+ physical 4G/5G modems we own and operate on real carriers in ~6 core countries - dedicated and single-tenant. For breadth, our SDK peer network of real devices reaches 100+ countries and growing, over 1M IPs in total, so in-country, residential-grade coverage is rarely the blocker on social or marketplace work. Where a Bright Data or Oxylabs still wins is raw IP volume and compliance certifications like SOC2/ISO - if your project turns on those, we will say so.
Yes. The same dedicated 4G/5G carrier IPs are available self-serve from $4/GB (down to $2.40 at volume) if you would rather build and run the pipeline yourself.
We build pipelines for publicly available data and expect you to have the right to collect it - scope and compliance are confirmed on the scoping call. Public data only, no exceptions.
From running it yourself on our proxies to a fully managed pipeline - honestly compared.
Best when: You have engineers and 1-2 easy targets
Best when: Light, unprotected pages at low volume
Best when: 1-3 hard, defended targets like a social or marketplace target
We crack it in a paid pilot and show you real rows before you commit to a retainer. Public data only - if we cannot, you do not proceed.