Free Search API: Free Search Engine Proxy API

How to play with free search APIs? Try the proxy IP alternative

Brothers engaged in network development understand that the search engine API is like opening a blind box - free of charge with a number of restrictions, charges and meat pain. Today teach you a wild way, with proxy IP whoring search interface, the focus is not to spend money can also be as stable as the old dog.

How does a proxy IP relate to the search API?

To give a chestnut, a certain degree of search API free 100 times a day, over the need to charge members. At this time to pull out ipipgo's proxy IP pool, each request for a different export IP, the server side that are different users in the operation, this is not a breakthrough in the number of restrictions?

import requests

proxy = {
    'http': 'http://username:password@gateway.ipipgo.com:9020',
    'https': 'http://username:password@gateway.ipipgo.com:9020'
}

response = requests.get('https://api.某度.com/search?q=关键词', proxies=proxy)

Analysis of three major real-world scenarios

Scenario 1: E-commerce price comparison script
Use proxy IP to poll the search interface of Sompo and Somdong to monitor the lowest price on the net in real time. ipipgo's residential IPs are not recognized as bots and are much more reliable than server room IPs.

Scenario 2: Public Opinion Monitoring System
Capture search results from different regions to see the brand's reputation in different geographies. Use ipipgo's national node IPs, which can simulate the geographic distribution of real users.

Scenario 3: SEO Optimization Testing
Batch query keyword ranking with proxy IP to avoid triggering the anti-climbing mechanism. The survival rate of ipipgo can reach 92%, which is ten times more stable than the free proxy.

A guide to avoiding pitfalls (highlights)

QA time

Q: Do free proxies work?
A: Don't think! Free agent 99% are ten thousand people ride, slow speed not to mention, but also may be inserted into the ads. It is recommended to use ipipgo's free trial package, new users to send 1G traffic.

Q: How can I prevent being recognized as a crawler?
A: Two tricks: 1. Randomly change User-Agent for each request 2. Use ipipgo's on-demand billing IPs, real life level IPs every time

Q: Do I need to build my own proxy server?
A: Never! Maintaining it yourself is costly. Directly call ipipgo API on the line, their sdk has Chinese documentation, white can understand.

How to choose a reliable service provider?

Honestly this business is very deep and I suggest focusing on three things:
1. IP survival time (ipipgo can do an average of 4 hours)
2. Whether it supports pay-as-you-go (don't be fooled by monthly packages)
3. Availability of a failure retry mechanism (ipipgo automatically retries 3 times)

I recently found out that ipipgo is having an event where you get 20 minutes of technical advice for signing up. Their engineers will help you adjust the proxy configuration of the search API, than their own toss to save a lot of heart. The key is Chinese customer service seconds back, than those foreign brands grounded.