Proxy IP App Store Crawling: App Store Data Proxy Collection Solution

Why do you have to use a proxy IP to crawl data on mobile app stores?

You do data crawl counterparts should have encountered this situation: just grabbed not a few pages, the target site on the pop-up verification code, and then after a while directly blocked IP. especially Apple AppStore, Huawei application market platforms, are now equipped with intelligent wind control system, the ordinary reptile can not be carried.

That's when it's time to rely onProxy IP PoolIt's a guerrilla war. As if we go to the supermarket to buy a limited number of goods, every time we change different clothes to queue, the system will not recognize the same person. The actual test with dynamic residential IP to catch the application store data, the success rate can be from 20% directly soared to 80% above.

What's the best way to choose between the three proxy IPs?

There are three main categories of proxy IPs on the market (knock on wood):

Here's the kicker.Dynamic Residential IPIf we use ipipgo's Dynamic Residential package, 1GB of traffic can grab the app details page about 5,000 times. Catch the app store this need high frequency IP change scene, we recommend that they choose dynamic residential enterprise version, although the unit price is more expensive but the survival rate is higher.

Real-world code examples (Python version)

import requests
from random import choice

 API extraction link for ipipgo
PROXY_API = "https://api.ipipgo.com/getproxy?format=json"

def get_proxies():
    resp = requests.get(PROXY_API).json()
    proxies = {
        "http": f "http://{resp['ip']}:{resp['port']}",
        "https": f "http://{resp['ip']}:{resp['port']}"
    }
    return proxies

 Example of crawling the app details page
def crawl_app_info(app_id):
    headers = {
        "User-Agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 16_5 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Mobile/15E148"
    }
    try: resp = requests.get()
        resp = requests.get(
            f "https://apps.apple.com/cn/app/id{app_id}",
            proxies=get_proxies(),
            headers=headers,
            timeout=10
        )
        return resp.text
    except Exception as e.
        print(f "Crawl error: {str(e)}")
        return None

Be careful to set theRandom UArespond in singingrequest intervalDon't let the wind control system find out the pattern. It is recommended to change the IP every 5 catches, and immediately switch to a new proxy when encountering CAPTCHA.

First aid kit for common rollover problems

Q: What should I do if I use a proxy IP and suddenly all of them are blocked?
A: 80% is the quality of the IP pool is not good, change ipipgo's TK line to try. Their residential IPs are all local carrier resources and are not easily blacklisted.

Q: How do I assign proxies to multiple crawler threads open at the same time?
A: Add &count=10 parameter when extracting with their API, take 10 IPs at a time, and bind independent proxy for each thread. Remember to set the IP survival time, it is recommended that 30 minutes to force the replacement.

Q: What should I pay attention to when catching overseas app markets?
A: Be sure to use the local IP of the corresponding country! For example, if you catch the Japanese market, use the Tokyo node of ipipgo, don't use the US IP to harden it, otherwise it may be redirected.

Stream Saving Version Operation Guide

1. Sign up for a ipipgo account (newcomers get a $5 experience coupon)
2. Select Dynamic Residential Enterprise Package
3. Generate API extraction links on the console
4. Configure the crawler according to the code example above.
5. Setting up a failure retry mechanism (recommended up to 3 times)
6. Timing monitoring of IP consumption

Finally said a lesson in tears: do not be cheap to buy a shared IP! Previously used a 0.5 yuan / GB, the results of 50 crawler thread half an hour to run out of traffic, but also because of the duplication of IP led to the account was blocked. Now turn to use ipipgo's exclusive static IP, although more expensive, but the stability of the incense, do long-term monitoring tasks preferred program.