🆕 New article – Astro API: documentation and request examples

If you work with a large number of proxies, the API lets you manage them directly via HTTPS requests, without the website.

In the new article:
▪️ What a proxy service API is and why it's needed;
▪️ Astro API commands – retrieving account balance, the list of ports and renewing a port;
▪️ How to get a new external IP for a port;
▪️ Retrieving available countries, cities and operators;
▪️ Calculating port cost via the API.

📖 Full documentation and request examples

🎬 The same YouTube search can return different results depending on your location.

If you're researching a foreign market from your own country, you're not seeing what local users see.
Use residential IPs in your target location to collect accurate YouTube data.

With Astro proxies you get:
▪️ 50M residential and mobile IPs across 150 countries;
▪️ Сountry, city, and ISP-level targeting;
▪️ Сontrolled IP rotation for large-scale research.

🌐 Run your YouTube research from the right location.

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🆕 New case study: a working Instagram parser in Python with Astro proxies

A ready-to-use solution for anyone who wants to run Instagram scraping without the usual rate limits and blocks.

In this case study we show how to:
▪️ set up a Python parser with Astro proxies;
▪️ handle Instagram's redirects and restrictions;
▪️ avoid common mistakes, including HTTP 429;
▪️ pull profile data with BeautifulSoup.

Inside – ready-made code examples you can drop straight into your own project.

📖 Read the guide

🆕 New guide: how to get recommended on TikTok and get millions of views

A complete guide to TikTok promotion in 2026.

We cover everything that affects reach:
▪️ how the For You algorithm works;
▪️ how to increase retention, engagement, and TikTok SEO;
▪️ how to scale accounts through proxies;
▪️ which mistakes kill views.

🎯 Checklist inside – check your video before publishing and increase your chances of getting recommended on TikTok.

📖 Read the guide via the link

💸 A banned account never sends you an invoice, but if it did, the total would surprise most teams.

The obvious line is the account itself. The expensive ones are the lines nobody tracks: the ad budget already burned on it, the weeks of reputation and warm-up gone overnight, the audiences and history lost with the login, the team hours spent on appeals and rebuilds.

An IP per account is one predictable line on the balance sheet. A ban is an open-ended one.

Protect your accounts before the bill arrives.

Get a $3 free test credit through Astro support

🆕 New guide: Building an AI Agent Together – A Step-by-Step Guide

The only thing standing between you and your first AI agent is getting started. In this guide, we cover:
▪️ how is an AI agent different from a regular chatbot and what it's made of;
▪️ how to turn an idea into a fully functional solution in eight practical steps – using a research agent that monitors competitor prices as a running example;
▪️ the most common beginner mistakes;
▪️ why an AI agent needs proxies and how to match the proxy type to the task.

Inside – an "AI Agent Pre-Launch Checklist" to verify everything is ready before you launch.

📖 Read the guide

🕵️ Before a page decides whether you're a person or a script, it reads a stack of signals and assigns a trust score.

It checks where your connection comes from, and a residential or mobile IP reads very differently from a datacenter range. It looks for network overlaps, because one IP shared across many "separate" accounts is a giveaway. It watches rhythm: people browse in uneven bursts, scripts move like clockwork. It cross-checks your fingerprint against your IP and geo, so a US profile on a European address becomes a contradiction.

⚠️ No single check bans you. The score does.

A residential or mobile IP, consistent geo and controlled rotation keep every signal pointing to the same user.

🔥 – Want a breakdown of which signal trips people up most

🆕 New guide: API proxies for AI agents – why they matter and how they help scale AI applications

For everyone building and scaling AI agents:
▪️ what API proxies are;
▪️ why AI agents need API proxies;
▪️ the key benefits API proxies;
▪️ common use cases;
▪️ what to look for in an API proxy provider.

📖 Read the guide

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New guide
Internal vs. External Proxy IP Address: What's the Difference?

When working with proxies, users often see two IP addresses – an internal IP and an external IP. They serve different purposes, and understanding the difference will help you configure your connection more quickly and avoid common mistakes.

In the guide:
▪️ what Is an Internal Proxy IP address;
▪️ what Is an External IP Address;
▪️ how IP rotation works in Astro;
▪️ how to change your external IP using the Rotation Link.

Read the guide

🆕 New guide
Dynamic vs. static proxies: what’s the difference and which should you choose?

It may seem that a static IP address is more reliable. But modern requirements for security, automation, and working with online services have changed the rules of the game. We look at which proxies handle anti-fraud systems best.

📖 Read on the Astro blog

🚀 Introducing a new series – Case Breakdown.

Running into an unusual issue with your proxies that you can’t figure out? Message our support team and include «Case Breakdown» in your request.

🔍 We’ll investigate the issue, identify the root cause, and suggest the best solution. The more details you provide (platform, software you’re using, what you’ve already tried, and the results), the faster we can help.

📚 We’ll also share the most interesting cases (with all personal and account details removed) on this channel so the community can learn from them. Your case might help others avoid the same issue.

Submit your case

#AstroCaseBreakdown

🌱 The first days decide how long an account lives. Rush them, and a new profile behaves like a seasoned bot.

Think in pace, not in actions:

▪️The first hours are for browsing: open the app, scroll, read, close it. Let the account run before it does anything useful.

▪️The first days are for routine: log in at human hours, from one region in a repeatable pattern.

▪️Only then comes the real work, posting, following, launching, and even then it ramps up gradually, never all at once.

⚠️ The fastest way to burn a fresh account is a spike: full activity from minute one, or a sudden jump in location.

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🆕 Astro proxies now work via Xray 

Is your provider blocking your proxy connection? There's a solution.

Try Xray if standard protocols aren't working. Our step-by-step guide walks you through it, using two apps – v2RayTun and Happ.

Read the guide

🚀 Case study:

Accounts got banned in batches, even though each had its "own" proxy

💬 A media buying team assigned a separate residential IP to each of its 40 profiles. Right type, matching geo, unique addresses. A few days into the campaign, mass bans.

🔍 What we found:

The problem was behavior, not the IP. Every port ran on the same rotation interval, and all profiles were launched at the same time – IPs changed in sync, actions ran from the same script. To an antifraud system, 40 accounts changing IPs at the same moment read as automation, not 40 real people.

⏩ What we did:
▪️ set a separate rotation interval for each port;
▪️ staggered profile launches over time.

💡 Takeaway: a separate IP per account is half the solution. The other half is making sure accounts don't behave identically.

Submit your case

#AstroCaseBreakdown

🆕 New guide
How to choose a proxy rotation mode

Your parser stalls halfway through a session, and your accounts get banned?
It's not the proxy's fault  – it's the wrong rotation mode.

📖 Find the right mode for your task