Instagram Profile Crawler: IG Data Collection

Why do you have to use a proxy IP to get data?

Recently, a number of cross-border e-commerce friends are asking, want to catch ins on the commodity information and user evaluation, the results just run two minutes account was blocked. This thing, to put it bluntly is the target site to recognize our real IP. Like going to the market to buy food, wearing the same clothes every day to ask the price, the stall owner is not vigilant only strange.

That's when it's time to rely onproxy IPto cover up. With ipipgo's dynamic residential proxy, each request changes to a different IP address, which is equivalent to changing to a new vest every day to go to the market for quotes. Tested, with their 10 rotating IP program, the account survival rate can be increased from 20% to more than 80%.

Practical Configuration Guide (with code)

Here is a chestnut with Python's requests library, remember to replace "your_username" and "your_password" in the example with the real credentials given by the ipipgo backend:

import requests

proxies = {
    "http": "http://your_username:your_password@gateway.ipipgo.com:3000",
    "https": "http://your_username:your_password@gateway.ipipgo.com:3000"
}

response = requests.get(
    "https://www.instagram.com/api/v1/users/web_profile_info/?username=target_account",
    headers={"User-Agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64)
    headers={"User-Agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36..."}
)

Here comes the key point:User-Agent must be changed for each request.It's best to pair it with ipipgo's auto-rotation feature. They can set up automatic IP switching every 5-10 minutes in the background, which is much more reliable than manual switching.

Proxy Type Selection Comparison Table

Frequently Asked Questions QA

Q: What should I do if my proxy IP is slow?
A: It is recommended to switch the protocol type in the background of ipipgo, replace HTTP with socks5, the actual test download speed can be 3 times faster. If it does not work, find their customer service to exclusive high-speed channel node!

Q: How do I test if the agent is valid?
A: Test connectivity with this command first:curl --proxy http://username:password@ip:port ifconfig.me If the returned IP is the same as the one shown in the backend, it means it's OK.

Q: Why do you recommend ipipgo?
A: Their IP pool is updated quickly, and just last week they added nodes in Mexico and Turkey, which are cold regions. The focus is onUnlimited concurrencyIt saves a lot of time when doing batch collection.

The Three Axes of Anti-Blocking

1. Don't be too direct with the frequency of requests, set random intervals between 5 and 15 seconds.
2. 3-6 a.m. (local time at the target location) has a higher success rate.
3. Weekly refreshing of the address pool with ipipgo's IP cleansing function

Lastly, don't use free proxies for cheap. Last time, a buddy said in a group that he used a free IP to capture data, and as a result, his account password was leaked. Professional things or to ipipgo this kind of serious service providers, out of the problem at least have customer service can dock.