Amazon Seller Crawl Tool: Competitor Monitoring API Solution

First, why do Amazon sellers need 'data harvesters'?

Old iron people know that mixing and eating on Amazon is like grabbing a stall in the food market. Next door to the old king of today's price cut 30%, the opposite side of the small Lee secretly on the new product, if there is no hardcore tools to watch, minutes to be thrown out of the ten street. This time we have to do a little high-tech -Competitive Data Capture ToolIn other words, it's a 'data harvester' for your own store.

But the problem is that Amazon's anti-crawling system is more sophisticated than the neighborhood security guard. Use your own computer every day to pick the data, not three days quasi-blocked. This is the time to use theproxy IPThis is a golden trick, especially for service providers like ipipgo that specialize in e-commerce data harvesting, and their home IP pools are large enough and hidden enough to simply add a cloak of invisibility to the data harvester.

Second, how do proxy IPs play competitive monitoring?

First to the guys to dismantle a typical scenario: suppose you want to monitor the price fluctuations of 20 competing stores, the traditional practice is to write a crawler script. But directly hard Amazon server, the end is certainly:

import requests
 Newbie direct link version (death-defying writeup)
response = requests.get('https://亚马逊商品链接')
print(response.text) Here you get the 403 error bonanza

The correct posture has to be to use proxy IPs for guerrilla warfare:

import requests
 Older driver proxy version (safe to write)
proxies = {
    'http': 'http://用户名:密码@gateway.ipipgo.com:端口',
    'https': 'https://用户名:密码@gateway.ipipgo.com:端口'
}
response = requests.get('https://亚马逊商品链接', proxies=proxies, timeout=10)

Here's the kicker! ipipgo'sDynamic Residential IPThere are two killers:

Third, the API program practical guide to avoid pitfalls

What's the worst thing about competitor monitoring? Incomplete data and missing reports! Here's one.Gold Allocation Program::

1. With ipipgoNational-city-level positioningFunctions to disguise as real users in the target customer area

2. SettingsException Retry MechanismIf you encounter CAPTCHA, it will automatically cut IP and retry.

3. Data storage rememberedtimestampEasy to analyze price trends

To cite a real case: a mother and baby sellers with this program, found that competitors every Wednesday morning price adjustment, immediately adjust their own promotional rhythm, three months in the category rankings from 50 outside to the top 10.

IV. Frequently Asked Questions QA

Q: Is it okay to use a free proxy?
A: Never! Free IPs were blacklisted by Amazon a long time ago, and using this is the equivalent of knocking on doors holding up an "I'm a creeper" sign

Q: Why does ipipgo fit better than others?
A: Their home has specialized for e-commerce platformsASN camouflage technologyThe IP addresses are all listed as legitimate ISPs, which is much more reliable than those server room IPs.

Q: What is the frequency of data capture?
A: It is recommended that mother and baby categories every hour 1 time, 3C categories every 15 minutes 1 time, remember to cooperate with ipipgo'sIntelligent Rate Adjustmentfunctionality

V. Upgraded data war room

Advanced players can get a little fancy: use ipipgo'sMulti-country IP PoolMonitor data from different sites at the same time. For example, the U.S. station shows out of stock goods, with the European IP check may be in stock, this kind of intelligence transfer can be used in the off-site traffic diversion.

Finally, a reminder to all you old timers out there that the data wars spell theCovertness + PersistenceLike one of our customers, when they use normal proxy, they have to change the program 3 times a week. Like we have a customer, using ordinary proxy to change the program 3 times a week, after changing to ipipgo, the same monitoring program has been running steadily for more than half a year, saving the operation and maintenance costs are enough to buy a Tesla.