Sometimes you may get blocked by a site that your are scraping because you are identified as a scraper, and sometimes this happens because the webmaster sees the scrape requests coming from a uniform IP, at which point they simply block access to that IP.
To help prevent this problem, it is possible to use proxy randomization middleware within Scrapy. There exists a library, scrapy-proxies, which implements a proxy randomization feature.
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