title: SOAX Vocabulary
description: >-
  Domain vocabulary for SOAX proxy infrastructure and web data extraction platform — covering proxy types, geo-targeting, session management, anti-bot bypass, and data extraction concepts.
created: '2026-05-02'
modified: '2026-05-02'
tags:
  - Proxy
  - Web Scraping
  - Data Extraction

terms:
  - term: Residential Proxy
    definition: >-
      A proxy IP address sourced from a real residential internet user's device. Residential proxies are legitimate ISP-assigned IPs that appear as genuine user traffic to target websites, making them harder to block. SOAX offers 155M+ residential IPs.
    tags:
      - Proxy Types
      - Infrastructure

  - term: Mobile Proxy
    definition: >-
      A proxy IP address from a mobile device using a cellular data connection (3G/4G/5G). Mobile proxies carry mobile carrier attribution, which is useful for mobile-specific geo-targeting and testing. SOAX offers 33M+ mobile IPs.
    tags:
      - Proxy Types
      - Infrastructure

  - term: Datacenter Proxy
    definition: >-
      A proxy IP address hosted in a data center rather than a residential location. Datacenter proxies offer higher speed and lower latency than residential proxies but are more easily detected by anti-bot systems. SOAX offers 300K+ datacenter IPs.
    tags:
      - Proxy Types
      - Infrastructure

  - term: Rotating Proxy
    definition: >-
      A proxy configuration where the IP address automatically changes between requests or at a configured interval. Used for large-scale scraping to avoid IP-based rate limiting and blocking.
    tags:
      - Proxy
      - Session Management

  - term: Sticky Session
    definition: >-
      A proxy session that maintains the same IP address across multiple consecutive requests. Useful for workflows that require consistent identity, such as logging in, maintaining shopping carts, or multi-step form submissions.
    tags:
      - Session Management
      - Proxy

  - term: Geo-targeting
    definition: >-
      The ability to select proxy IPs from a specific country, region, city, ISP, or mobile carrier. SOAX supports geo-targeting across 195+ countries at country, region/state, city, and ISP levels.
    tags:
      - Geo Targeting
      - Proxy

  - term: Anti-Bot Bypass
    definition: >-
      Technology for circumventing website bot detection systems including CAPTCHAs, JavaScript challenges, browser fingerprinting, WAF rules, and behavioral analysis. SOAX Web Data API handles these automatically.
    tags:
      - Web Scraping
      - Security

  - term: CAPTCHA Solving
    definition: >-
      Automated solving of CAPTCHA challenges (reCAPTCHA, hCaptcha, Cloudflare Turnstile) presented by websites to detect bots. SOAX includes built-in CAPTCHA solving in the Web Data API.
    tags:
      - Anti-Bot
      - Web Scraping

  - term: JavaScript Rendering
    definition: >-
      Executing JavaScript on web pages using a headless browser to produce fully rendered HTML, including dynamic content loaded by SPAs, React, Vue, and Angular applications. SOAX handles this transparently.
    tags:
      - Web Scraping
      - Technology

  - term: XHR Capture
    definition: >-
      Intercepting and returning the XMLHttpRequest (XHR) and Fetch API calls made by a web page during rendering. Useful for extracting structured JSON data from background API calls rather than parsing HTML.
    tags:
      - Web Scraping
      - Data Extraction

  - term: SERP
    definition: >-
      Search Engine Results Page — the page displayed by a search engine in response to a query. SOAX's SERP Data API extracts organic results, ads, and featured snippets from Google, Bing, and other search engines.
    tags:
      - Data Extraction
      - SEO

  - term: Package Key
    definition: >-
      A unique identifier assigned to a SOAX proxy subscription package. Used to authenticate proxy management API requests and identify which pool to draw proxies from.
    tags:
      - Authentication
      - API

  - term: IP Whitelist
    definition: >-
      A list of IP addresses authorized to use a SOAX proxy package without username/password authentication. Whitelisted IPs can connect directly to the proxy endpoint.
    tags:
      - Authentication
      - Security

  - term: Headless Browser
    definition: >-
      A web browser running without a graphical user interface, controlled programmatically. SOAX uses headless browsers (Chromium-based) to render JavaScript-heavy pages for the Web Data API.
    tags:
      - Technology
      - Web Scraping

  - term: purl (Package URL)
    definition: >-
      A standardized URL scheme for identifying software packages across package managers. Not used in SOAX context — see Snyk Container vocabulary for purl definitions.
    tags:
      - N/A

  - term: Web Data Studio
    definition: >-
      SOAX's suite of data extraction products including the Web Data API, SERP Data API, Ecommerce Data API, and Managed Data Acquisition services. Designed for teams needing clean, structured data at scale.
    tags:
      - Products
      - Data Extraction

  - term: WAF (Web Application Firewall)
    definition: >-
      A security system that monitors and filters HTTP traffic to protect web applications from bot traffic, scraping, and attacks. SOAX's anti-bot bypass can circumvent many WAF rules to access publicly available data.
    tags:
      - Security
      - Anti-Bot

  - term: IP Pool
    definition: >-
      The collection of proxy IP addresses available within a SOAX package for a given proxy type (residential, mobile, datacenter). Pool size varies by proxy type and geography.
    tags:
      - Infrastructure
      - Proxy