E-commerce price monitoring system: Shopee/Tokopedia crawler architecture

How important is e-commerce price monitoring?

Bosses who do cross-border e-commerce in Southeast Asia understand that prices on Shopee and Tokopedia can change eight times a day. Peers just adjusted the price in the morning, and in the afternoon there will be a new store to promote. If we manually watch, not to mention 996, 007 can not carry. This is the time to rely onautomated crawlerGrabbing data, but the platform is not a vegetarian, and the anti-climbing mechanism is becoming more and more ruthless.

Why are proxy IPs a lifeline?

Last year, a customer doing beauty work complained to me that his crawler was running quite smoothly at first, and then three days later suddenlytotal defeat of an army (idiom); fig. a complete wipe-outThe platform is directly blocked. Checking the logs found that all requests come from the same IP segment, the platform directly to the block. This is a typical "naked crawler", equivalent to wearing a fluorescent suit to be a spy.

Using a proxy IP is the equivalent of saddling a crawler withCloak of Invisibility + Face ChangingThe system is not a real user, it's a real user. For example, ipipgo's Dynamic Residential Proxy, which changes the IP of a real user for every request. tokopedia's anti-crawling system sees normal access from different regions and devices, no different from a real person's chopping block.

How do you build a real-world crawler architecture?

Let's not play false, directly on the dry goods. We have deployed this architecture to 20+ cross-border sellers and have no problem capturing millions of data per day:

A Guide to Avoiding the Pit (Blood and Tears)

1. Don't save that agency money.: There is a customer figure cheap with free agents, the results climbed to the price data 30% is wrong, the promotional activities of the time are not the right number!

2. Remember regularReplacement of User-Agent: Especially in the electronics category, the platforms have the tightest watch.

3. Don't brush data in the early morning: some sellers think that no one cares in the middle of the night, and as a result, they trigger the platform'sAbnormal Traffic Detection

QA session

Q: Will I still be blocked with a proxy IP?
A: Look at the quality. Previously a customer with other family's proxy, IP pool on a few thousand, of course, easy to be recognized. ipipgo's pool has10 Million Real Residential IPWe've tested it to run for 7 days straight without any problems.

Q: What if I want to catch multiple country sites?
A: This is the strong point of ipipgo. For example, if you do Indonesia and Vietnam market, you can export directly from local residential IPs, which not only reduces the risk of blocking, but also allows you to get theExclusive pricing for local usersSome products are not available for cross-border accounts at all.

Q: How do I break the CAPTCHA when I encounter it?
A: Don't harden the solution! Immediately switch IPs + reduce frequency. ipipgo'sLong-lasting session agentsSupports keep logged in state, with browser fingerprinting emulation, which can significantly reduce CAPTCHA triggers

Why ipipgo?

A true story: last month there was a mother and baby products customers, while running Shopee five countries site. When using a normal proxy, they have to deal with 200+ bans per day, and switch to ipipgo.Intelligent Routing AgentAfter that, it dropped directly to single digits. Their technical director's words: "should have changed the professional, before the waste of operation and maintenance costs are enough to buy three years of service"

Registering for ipipgo now also has a hidden benefit: talk to customer service with the code word "TK2024″ and you'll be able to receiveThree-day enterprise trialI'm sorry, but I'm not sure if this is a good idea. Other companies give data center IP trial, we directly open the residential proxy access, real enough, right?

Finally, I would like to remind all the bosses: doing price monitoring is not about who has more data than who has more data than who has more data than who has more data than who has more data than who has more data.fast and accurate. A half hour short of a pop-up could be snapped up. Use the proxy IP as a lever to pry real business growth.