Cross-border e-commerce Socks5|Shopify independent site competitor data collection system

Why are cross-border e-commerce companies always blocked for data collection? You may be missing this magic tool

Recently, a lot of Shopify independent station friends with me to complain, said the use of crawler tools to catch competitor data, just check not two days account was blocked. There is a buddy even worse, just after analyzing the pricing strategy of ten stores, the next day the store was directly restricted access. To put it bluntly, the problem lies inThe data collection didn't hide the identityThe

Three pitfalls you must know to engage in data collection

First, let's look at a real case: a home furnishing brand used ordinary network to capture competitor's information, and the result was recognized as a robot by the other system, not only could not collect data, but also the official website was marked with risk. There are three fatal problems hidden here:

1. Fixed IP address = Naked Internet

With their own network connected to capture data, like wearing a glow-in-the-dark suit in the dark hanging around, the platform monitoring system minutes to lock you. There is a seller for three consecutive days at two o'clock in the morning to collect data, the fourth day store directly into the audit process.

2. User behavior is too regular

Machine collection tends to be fixed time + fixed frequency of operation, and the system catches it on the fly. The most outrageous case I've seen is when someone set up every5 minutes, 28 seconds.Grabbing the data once resulted in a three-day ban.

3. Misalignment of geographic information

For example, if you want to catch the data of the American station, but the login IP shows in Henan, doesn't it clearly tell people that you're messing things up?

The right way to open a Socks5 proxy

And here's where we're going to offer up our big guns-Dynamic Socks5 Proxy. It has three masterpieces compared to a normal agent:

Here's the kicker.Residential agent pool for ipipgoHis family has specifically optimized for e-commerce scenarios. For example, there is an old customer who does 3C accessories feedback, when using their agent to collect data, the system shows the real home broadband IP, with the automatic switching function, the continuous collection of two weeks did not trigger the wind control.

Teach you to build a collection system by hand

Don't let the word "system" scare you, it's really just three steps:

Step 1: Configure the proxy environment

Put a requests library in Python and write the code like this:

import requests
proxies = {
    'http': 'socks5://user:pass@ipipgo.proxy:port',
    'https': 'socks5://user:pass@ipipgo.proxy:port'
}
response = requests.get('destination URL', proxies=proxies)

Be careful to putuserrespond in singingpassSwitch to the authentication information provided by ipipgo. it is recommended to use the dynamic session authentication mode to automatically change the password for each request.

Step 2: Setting up the collection strategy

Remember the two key numbers:Principle 3-7-15

• No more than 3 hours for a single collection
• Switching 7 IPs per hour
• No more than 15 consecutive requests per IP

Step 3: Play dumb with data cleansing

Don't store the collected data directly in the database, first randomly delete the content of 5% and add some meaningless characters. This trick can make the data look more like manual finishing, a seller rely on this method to collect data packaged as a "market research report", but instead of being bought by peers as a competitor analysis...

Guidelines on demining of common problems

Q：What should I do if I always get a CAPTCHA code when collecting?

A: Use ipipgo'sIntelligent Traffic SchedulingThe function automatically recognizes the frequency of CAPTCHA appearances. When detecting a surge in CAPTCHA requests, it will immediately switch IP segments, which has been tested to reduce the CAPTCHA trigger rate by 70%.

Q: What if I need to collect data from multiple countries?

A: Check the box in the ipipgo backendgeolocation modelFor example, if you want to catch the U.S. site, choose the New York residential IP, and if you want to do the Japanese market, choose the Osaka local IP. there is a mother and baby products customers, while monitoring 8 countries site, the average daily collection of 200,000 pieces of data, all rely on this feature!

Q: Why do you recommend Socks5 over other protocols?

A: To give a chestnut, last year, after Amazon updated the wind control system, the ordinary HTTP proxy survival time is not more than 2 hours, while the Socks5 proxy can be used stably for 6-8 hours. ipipgo's technical small brother said that their Socks5 connection will beEmulating Chrome's TCP Handshake FeaturesThat's a good one.

Tell the truth.

In fact, now do cross-border e-commerce, who does not have some technical means? But the key toHiding deep and acting like it.It's a good idea. The last time I went to the industry exchange, I found that TOP sellers are using the proxy program, the difference is just that some people use it well and some people use it badly. It is recommended that newbies start with ipipgo'strial packagePlaying up, his family has a benefit is to provide collection strategy consulting services, encounter problems directly to technical customer service than blindly think strong.

Lastly, don't buy those cheap proxy IPs that are weighed by the pound. a friend of mine used a shared IP pool on the cheap, and as a result, the collection data was mixed with fake information about competitors, and the pricing strategy was wrong across the board, and the loss was so bad that he didn't even recognize his mother. Professional things are still given to ipipgo this kind of specialized e-commerce agent service providers, after all, theData collection rollovers can be more expensive than agency fees.The