Proxy Bastion vs Scrapoxy

Last checked 2026-09-10

Scrapoxy was built to aggregate proxy capacity for scraping: put a set of upstream proxy sources and cloud provider instances behind it, and it presented one gateway that rotated and managed them for scraping workloads.

As of this writing, Scrapoxy's own GitHub repository states plainly that the project has been discontinued: its README says so directly, the main branch has seen very little further commit activity, and there are no open pull requests. Proxy Bastion is not being compared here as a head-to-head feature swap; the honest comparison for anyone still evaluating or running Scrapoxy has to start from that maintenance status.

Scrapoxy: side by side

Dimension	Proxy Bastion	Scrapoxy
What problem it solves	Distribution: taking proxy access you already have and handing separate, accountable, revocable pieces of it out to separate people.	Aggregation: combining upstream proxy sources and cloud instances behind one gateway for scraping traffic to rotate through.
Current maintenance status	Actively maintained; this page and the rest of the site are updated on an ongoing basis.	Discontinued, per Scrapoxy's own repository README. The main branch shows minimal further commit history and no open pull requests, meaning new bugs or compatibility breaks are unlikely to be fixed upstream.
Per-person accountability	Every issued link is tied to one person and can be revoked on its own without touching anyone else.	Scrapoxy managed and rotated proxy capacity for a scraping job; it was not built to issue a separately accountable, revocable credential per downstream person.

Where this page draws the line

Proxy Bastion does not compete with what Scrapoxy did while it was active; it solves the distribution side, not the aggregation side, of the proxy stack, and Scrapoxy is no longer being developed to compare feature-for-feature against in any case. This page exists so anyone searching for a Scrapoxy alternative gets an accurate picture of its status rather than a fabricated feature comparison.

When Scrapoxy is the right choice

If you already have Scrapoxy running for a scraping pipeline and it still passes traffic the way you need, there is no urgent reason to rip it out on the strength of this page alone. Before it was discontinued, it did solve a real problem: aggregating several proxy and cloud instance sources into one rotating gateway for scraping. The honest caveat is that its own repository says it will not receive further fixes, which is worth weighing before building anything new on top of it.

Sources

The public scrapoxy/scrapoxy GitHub repository README states that Scrapoxy has been discontinued, and at fetch time the main branch showed only 3 commits with no open pull requests, alongside 2.4k stars and 278 forks accumulated during its earlier active period. This supports the claim that Scrapoxy is no longer maintained, without asserting anything beyond what the repository itself states. https://github.com/scrapoxy/scrapoxy (checked 2026-09-10)