Node Unblocker for Web Scraping: Setup & Limits (2026)

Node Unblocker is an open-source Node.js proxy library that fetches web pages on your behalf and rewrites their links so every subsequent request keeps flowing through your server. This tutorial explains what node-unblocker is, how to set it up, how to deploy it, how to point a scraper at it, and its limitations. One caveat up front: node-unblocker still works, but its latest release (2.3.1) dates to mid-2024, and the project has seen only dependency bumps since.