# Subito Proxies: 600 Words for 183 KB

> Subito.it through residential proxies, 28 September 2026: 182,983 bytes of plain HTML carry 600 words; the browser costs 6.9x the bytes for the same 600 words.

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# Subito Proxies: 600 Words for 183 KB

Use casesSep 28, 2026·8 min read·By [Aldo Morese](https://quanticdata.io/about/), founder of QuanticData

Bytes and words returned by subito.it on 28 September 2026: 182,983 bytes of no-JavaScript HTML carrying 600 words, 1,263,991 bytes of rendered page carrying the same 600 words, and one collector run returning 10 classified ads in 2.7 seconds

On this page [183 kilobytes carry the whole server-rendered page](/blog/subito-proxies/#183-kilobytes-carry-the-whole-server-rendered-page) [What the people searching for a Subito scraper actually build](/blog/subito-proxies/#what-the-people-searching-for-a-subito-scraper-actually-buil) [The collector returns ten ads in 2.7 seconds, with the fields the cards hide](/blog/subito-proxies/#the-collector-returns-ten-ads-in-2-7-seconds-with-the-fields) [What robots.txt and the terms say, in one line each](/blog/subito-proxies/#what-robots-txt-and-the-terms-say-in-one-line-each) [Cost math with real numbers](/blog/subito-proxies/#cost-math-with-real-numbers) [The setting that works on Subito](/blog/subito-proxies/#the-setting-that-works-on-subito)

Subito is Italy's largest classifieds site, and it is the cheapest page to read in this whole family: on 28 September 2026 subito.it answered a plain HTTP client through an Italian residential exit with 200 OK, 182,983 bytes and 600 words, about 305 bytes per word. Rendering the same URL in a browser cost 1,263,991 bytes, took 23.7 seconds, and returned the same 600 words. The setting that works on Subito is residential, plain HTTP, country=it, and when you need listings rather than pages, the subito_search collector, which returned 10 ads with price, comune, seller type and shipping cost in 2.7 seconds out of the 9,268 Subito reports for the query.

## 183 kilobytes carry the whole server-rendered page

Subito's home is server-rendered and light. The compressed body on the wire was 22,111 bytes, the decoded HTML 182,983, and inside it the seo_audit tool in our [MCP server](https://quanticdata.io/mcp-server/) found the title, the meta description, an og:title and a JSON-LD Organization block. What it did not find is a canonical link and an h1: Subito ships neither on the home, with or without JavaScript, so a parser that keys on either will see nothing on both passes. That is a property of the page, not of the fetch mode.

| Fetch (28 September 2026) | Status | Bytes returned | Time | Words | Notes |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| subito.it, plain HTTP, Italian exit | 200 | 182,983 | 5.8 s | 600 | Title, description, og:title, JSON-LD Organization; no canonical, no h1 |
| subito.it, rendered, Italian exit | 200 | 1,263,991 | 23.7 s | 600 | Same title and description; no canonical, no h1; the audit diff is empty |
| subito.it, plain HTTP, German exit | 200 | n/a | 11.5 s (audit) | 600 | Identical page; no redirect and no country gate |
| subito.it/robots.txt | 200 | 590 | 3.1 s | n/a | Last modified 17 June 2022 |

On 26 September a rendered pass of the same URL counted 848 words against 602 without JavaScript. Two days later the render counted 600. The difference is the home feed: it is personalised and fills after hydration, so the rendered count depends on what the browser happened to load before capture, while the no-JS count moved by two words in two days. When a number is that unstable it is not worth 6.9 times the bytes. Read Subito over plain HTTP and put the browser budget into the pages that need it.

## What the people searching for a Subito scraper actually build

There is no such thing as a "subito proxies" query in Google's autocomplete on 28 September 2026; the field is empty. The demand is "subito it scraper", "scraping subito it", "subito it bot telegram" and "subito it api developer". The top organic result we read is a small open-source Python searcher: it polls a search URL such as /annunci-italia/vendita/usato/?q=iphone every two minutes with BeautifulSoup, keeps a list of seen ads, and posts new ones to a Telegram channel. That is the archetype. People want to know the moment a listing appears at a price, in a comune, from a private seller.

Two things follow. The first is that a plain HTTP client works, which the measurement above confirms and the script's own existence proves. The second is that the script is doing, badly, what a collector does in one call: parsing cards, tracking pagination, normalising prices. Subito's own robots.txt disallows the pagination parameter (*/?o=* and *&o=*) to every user agent, so a polite crawler cannot page a search at all; it can only re-read page one. A poller that wants coverage beyond the first page is already outside the file. The collector, by contrast, is a single semantic input: query, category, comune, seller type, and it returns rows.

## The collector returns ten ads in 2.7 seconds, with the fields the cards hide

We ran the [Subito collector](https://quanticdata.io/collectors/subito-scraper-api/) once on 28 September 2026 with the query "iphone 15" and max_results 10. It finished in 2.74 seconds, delivered 10 rows, and noted that Subito reports 9,268 ads for the query. Every row carries title, ad URL, price as shown and as a number, category, condition, publication timestamp, region, city and comune, seller id and type, shipping availability and cost, image URLs and the full description, which Subito's cards truncate.

| Field in the run | What came back for 10 rows |
| --- | --- |
| Price | 8 numeric prices from 38 € to 1,999 €; 2 dealer ads with the price only in the description text |
| Seller type | 6 company ads, all from one Brescia phone shop; 4 private ads |
| Shipping | 4 ads shippable through Subito's own service, 3 at 0.99 € and 1 at 2.99 €; 6 pickup only |
| Condition | "Come nuovo", "Nuovo", "Ottimo" as Subito labels them, one per row |
| Geo | Region, city and comune on every row: Brescia, Vasto, Leverano, Milano, Tremestieri Etneo |
| Timestamps | All 10 posted within the four minutes before the run, because the collector sorts by recent |

That last row is the one a price-alert builder cares about: the collector sorted by recency returned ads posted 18:51 to 18:55 local time on a run at 19:06, so a poll every few minutes sees the market as it moves. The two dealer rows with a null price are also instructive: the shop wrote "Prezzo: 1299€" in the description instead of the price field, and the full description in the row is where a parser finds it. At $0.001 per delivered ad the run cost one cent, and nothing is billed for a query that returns nothing.

## What robots.txt and the terms say, in one line each

Subito's robots.txt is 590 bytes, unchanged since 17 June 2022, and opens with a comment stating that using search robots or other automatic methods to access Subito.it is forbidden unless Subito has given permission. The rules below it then allow the whole site to every agent except a dozen paths: /pr/, /vi/, /vim/, /utente/, the ad-insertion and PayPal flows, and pagination. The terms of service add the contractual layer: clause 8 forbids automatic ad-upload systems, serial publishing and managing ads for third parties without authorisation, and clause 10 forbids aggregator software, apps or sites from using any content of the service without express prior authorisation. The professional terms state in 3.1 that they apply to users who merely consult ads as well as to advertisers.

So the honest line is this: Subito's terms forbid unauthorised aggregation of its content, and no proxy setting changes that. The searches for a "Subito API" have no public answer; what Subito licenses to professionals, per its own terms, is a multi-listing management programme for their own inventory, not a read API. Read public listings for price research and market monitoring at a human pace, and if your product is an aggregator, the address to write to is Subito's, not ours.

## Cost math with real numbers

Prices from our [pricing page](https://quanticdata.io/pricing/): residential Basic $0.80/GB, Premium $2.20/GB, the [web scraping API](https://quanticdata.io/web-scraping-api/) from $0.0002 per page ($0.001 rendered) and the Subito collector at $0.001 per delivered ad. One gigabyte is counted as 10^9 bytes.

| Approach | Bytes per page | Pages per GB | Cost per 1,000 |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Plain HTTP over residential Basic ($0.80/GB) | 182,983 | about 5,465 | about $0.15 per 1,000 pages |
| Plain HTTP over residential Premium ($2.20/GB) | 182,983 | about 5,465 | about $0.40 per 1,000 pages |
| Rendered over residential Basic | 1,263,991 | about 791 | about $1.01 per 1,000 pages |
| Web scraping API, plain HTTP | n/a | n/a | $0.20 per 1,000 pages |
| subito_search collector | n/a | n/a | $1.00 per 1,000 ads, with the fields parsed |

At 183 KB a page, raw bandwidth is almost free and the browser is the only thing that makes Subito expensive. Byte figures are decoded HTML, so real transfer is lower and headers add a little back. The comparison that matters is the last two rows: $0.20 buys a thousand pages you still have to parse, $1.00 buys a thousand ads already parsed, geo-coded to the comune and with the truncated description restored. For the opposite shape, a site where the raw page is two megabytes and the render subtracts words, see [Vinted through residential proxies](https://quanticdata.io/blog/vinted-proxies/); for the German equivalent of this market, [Kleinanzeigen](https://quanticdata.io/blog/kleinanzeigen-proxies/).

## The setting that works on Subito

- **Network**: [residential](https://quanticdata.io/residential-proxies/), Basic at $0.80/GB. Nothing in our fetches challenged a residential exit, and at 183 KB a page the network tier barely registers in the bill.

- **Fetch mode**: engine: tls, plain HTTP. 600 words in 5.8 seconds; the rendered page returns the same 600 words for 1,263,991 bytes and 23.7 seconds.

- **Country**: country=it. The page does not change from a German exit (600 words, no redirect), so the reason to pin Italy is a session that looks like the Italian buyers Subito serves, not access.

- **When the proxy is not enough**: the [subito_search collector](https://quanticdata.io/collectors/subito-scraper-api/), 10 ads in 2.7 seconds with price, condition, comune, seller type, shipping cost and full description, $0.001 per delivered ad; pagination that robots.txt closes to a crawler is a max_results number here.

- Every account gets $2 of free API usage per month, and failed requests are never billed.

### Sources & further reading

- [subito.it/robots.txt (fetched 28 September 2026)](https://www.subito.it/robots.txt)

- [Condizioni Generali del Servizio, Subito.it](https://info.subito.it/policies/condizioni-generali-disclaimer.htm)

- [Condizioni Generali Subito Pro, Subito.it](https://info.subito.it/policies/subito-condizioni-generali.htm)

## FAQ

Quick answers on subito proxies.

[Something else? Ask us →](mailto:hello@quanticdata.io)

### Do you need a proxy to scrape Subito.it?

For reading public listing pages, a residential exit and a plain HTTP client are enough: on 28 September 2026 subito.it answered with 200 OK, 182,983 bytes and 600 words on the first request. The proxy matters for volume and for keeping the session Italian; it is not there to get past a wall.

### Does Subito need JavaScript rendering?

No. Our seo_audit run counted 600 words without JavaScript and 600 with it on the same URL from the same exit, and the rendered page cost 1,263,991 bytes and 23.7 seconds against 182,983 bytes and 5.8 seconds. A render two days earlier counted 848 words only because the personalised feed had filled; that number is not stable.

### Does Subito have a public API?

Not one we could find: the searches "subito it api developer" and "subito api documentation" exist, but Subito professional terms describe a licensed multi-listing programme for advertisers, not a read API. The subito_search collector is the structured alternative, returning 10 ads in 2.7 seconds with price, comune, seller type and shipping cost.

### Is scraping Subito allowed by its terms?

Subito robots.txt opens by stating that automatic methods of access are forbidden without permission, and its terms forbid aggregator software or sites from using its content without express authorisation (clause 10) and automatic ad-upload systems (clause 8). Read public pages for research at a human pace; an aggregator product needs Subito permission, and no proxy changes that.

### Can you paginate a Subito search with a crawler?

Not within robots.txt: the 590-byte file disallows the pagination parameter (o=) to every user agent, so a polite crawler only ever reads page one. The collector takes a max_results value up to 150 instead and handles pages internally.

### How much does 1,000 Subito pages cost through a proxy?

About $0.15 on residential Basic at $0.80/GB, because each home page is 182,983 bytes and one gigabyte, counted as 10^9 bytes, holds about 5,465 of them. Rendered, the same 1,000 pages cost about $1.01. The collector delivers 1,000 parsed ads for $1.00, and every account gets $2 of free API usage per month.

## Read the listings, not the browser

Every number here came from one platform: a plain fetch of subito.it, a render of the same URL, and one collector run that returned ten parsed ads in 2.7 seconds. Every account gets $2 of free API usage per month, and failed requests are never billed.

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