Residential IP: Advantages of Residential Proxy IP and How to Obtain and Use It

What exactly is the purpose of a residential proxy IP?

The old Zhang who engaged in data collection recently had a headache, and every time he climbed the website, he was always blocked by the anti-climbing mechanism. Later, he changed his residential IP proxy, just like changing the local license plate for his car, and the website directly released him as a normal user. The biggest advantage of this kind of IP assigned with real home broadband is thathigh degree of invisibility, unlike server room IPs, which are easily recognized and banned.

Take a real example: Xiao Wang, who does e-commerce price comparison, triggers dozens of CAPTCHAs per hour with an ordinary proxy. After switching to a residential IP, it ran for three consecutive days without any problems. Now many platforms have upgraded their wind control systems, and only theReal-life Internet featuresof the IP to be able to work steadily.

Hands on with getting reliable residential IPs

There are three main ways to find residential IP on the market:

The recommendation here is to go directly toipipgoThis type of professional service provider. Their residential IPs are real home broadband resources, unlike some businesses that take server room IPs and pass them off. I recently found out that they have a newTK Line, a friend who does cross-border e-commerce actually tested the delay down 60%.

Three-minute hands-on configuration tutorial

Take ipipgo's API extraction as an example, get the proxy information and use it this way (Python example):

import requests

proxy = {
    'http': 'http://用户名:密码@gateway.ipipgo.com:端口',
    'https': 'http://用户名:密码@gateway.ipipgo.com:端口'
}

resp = requests.get('destination URL', proxies=proxy, timeout=10)
print(resp.text)

Be careful to choose the right protocol type, their house supports both HTTP and Socks5. for long term tasks, it is recommended to use theStatic Residential IPPackage, 35 bucks a month for a fixed IP, a little more expensive than dynamic but double the stability.

Guide to avoiding pitfalls: common rollover scene for novices

Scene 1:I'm still getting banned even though I've changed my IP address → Check if the request header has a browser fingerprint.
Scene 2:Proxy connection timeout → switch egress nodes in different regions
Scene 3:Abnormal traffic consumption → Set IP whitelist in the background to prevent leakage

Here's a little trick: turn on the ipipgo back-endautomatic rotationIf you want to change the IP address every 50 requests, you can set the IP address to change every 50 requests, which saves traffic and avoids triggering the frequency control.

QA time: what you might want to ask

Q: Which one to choose, dynamic or static IP?
A: Dynamic ($7.67/GB) for short-term tasks and static ($35/each) for long-term projects. Enterprise-level tasks directly on the dynamic enterprise version with exclusive API interface.

Q: How can I tell if an IP is a real residence?
A：Check the IP details in ipipgo background, see if there is "Residential" logo in the ASN information. Or use whois to check the attribution, the IP of home broadband is usually shown as ISP operator.

Q: Which cold countries are supported?
A: They have 200+ countries' resources, even Tanzania and Uruguay can get these. Special needs can find customer service to customize the program, last time there is a customer to do the African market, 48 hours to open the Zambia line.

One last reminder: when choosing a package firstCollar test dosage, ipipgo gives 500MB of experience traffic with every new account. Don't just come up and buy a big package, try the water first. After all, what works for others may not necessarily work for you, and finding the program that best matches your business needs is the way to go.