Enterprise Crawler Compliance Architecture Design: Legal-Technical Collaboration Processes

What the heck to do about this enterprise crawler thing? Legal and tech don't fight.

Recently, many enterprises have been complaining to us that the legal department and the technical department have been tugging at each other every day over the matter of crawler compliance. Technology said "I have this set of proxy ip rotation mechanism is absolutely safe", legal must look at the specific authorization documents. If I say, this must be done according to the process, just like stir-frying vegetables - the fire does not cook the vegetables, the fire is too much on the paste pot.

Four Steps to Compliance Architecture, One Step Less is a Rollover

First of all, let's talk about a real case: an e-commerce company built its own proxy pool to do competitor monitoring, and as a result, the main business was affected because the IP was blocked. Later, it switched to usingDynamic Residential Proxy for ipipgo, in conjunction with the compliance process, now collects a steady 200,000 pieces of data per day. The key has to do these four steps:

1. Early legal involvementDon't wait for technology development to finish before looking for legal to wipe your ass.
2. Crawling strategy is clearly written in black and white (target site, collection frequency, data use)
3. The technical program must be accompanied byThree layers of proxy protection(more on this later)
4. Don't be lazy about regular compliance checks

Proxy IP selection doorway, beware of stepping on mines

Many businesses plant on proxy IP selection. Remember these three metrics:

Special reminder:Don't use free proxies for cheapLast year, a company was sued for copyright infringement and lost enough money to buy ten years of professional services.

Three axes of technology realization, one without the other

1. Dynamic IP Pool ManagementThe ipipgo API automatically switches terminals and sets up a 5-minute rotation strategy, which is much more reliable than manual switching.
2. request frequency control: don't grab the data like a hungry ghost, it is recommended to set the interval with reference to the loading speed of the site
3. Anomaly handling mechanism: change IP immediately when encountering 403, don't be hard-headed.

To give a chestnut: customers who do opinion monitoring with ipipgoIntelligent Routing FunctionThe IP pools are used to assign different websites to specific IP pools, which is both compliant and improves the collection efficiency.

The three minefields that law firms must keep an eye on

1. Scope of use of data (must be spelled out when signing the agreement)
2. Handling of user privacy fields (sensitive information such as cell phone numbers, identity cards, etc. must be desensitized)
3. Authorization for use of commercial data (don't assume that just because it is publicly available, you can use it)

Here's a tricky way to do it: add theCompliance Verification ModuleThe legal department looks at it with a straight thumbs up.

Frequently Asked Questions QA

Q: Why are I still blocked even though I use a proxy IP?
A: Ninety percent of the IP quality is not good, it is recommended to change ipipgo dynamic residential agent, with automatic rotation of that kind.

Q: What should I do if the legal department insists on signing an agreement for every website?
A: Catch the mainstream platforms first, with ipipgo'sCompliance Agent PackageA complementary legal counseling service can save a lot of trouble.

Q: What is the appropriate acquisition frequency?
A: Depends on the type of site, news station 1 second / times, e-commerce platform is recommended more than 3 seconds, with ipipgo's intelligent speed function automatically adapted.

And finally, the big truth: the whole enterprise crawler compliance thing.seven parts process and three parts technology.. Choosing the right proxy provider (e.g. ipipgo) can make it easier, but don't think you can buy an IP package and be done with it. Legal and tech have to be like comics, one comic and one comic, for this compliance drama to work.