Rotating Proxies for Brand Protection
Scan marketplaces for counterfeits, gray-market sellers, and trademark abuse from hundreds of locations at once. Automatic IP rotation keeps your monitoring invisible to the listings you watch.
Rotating Features
Why Automatic Rotation Fits Brand Protection
Counterfeiters and unauthorized sellers cloak listings, hide pricing, or vary inventory based on the visitor's IP and location. Marketplaces also rate-limit repeated lookups from one address, which stalls any continuous sweep. Automatic rotation gives every scan a fresh IP, so you can crawl thousands of product pages and seller profiles without blocks or distorted results. You see exactly what a shopper in each region sees, which is essential for catching region-specific counterfeits and gray-market diversion. Rotation turns a brittle, block-prone crawl into hands-off monitoring you can run on a schedule.
Which Pool to Rotate Over
Rotate over the Residential pool for marketplace and search monitoring. Its 100M+ IPs across 166 core countries appear as genuine shoppers, so marketplaces serve the same listings, prices, and seller rankings a real customer would see, instead of bot-flagged fallbacks. Geographic breadth matters because counterfeit and gray-market activity is often targeted at specific countries. Use the US-only Datacenter pool for high-volume scans of US sites that tolerate datacenter ranges, where speed and cost matter more than residential trust. For carrier-targeted mobile app marketplaces, the Mobile pool covers 115 countries.
Rotation Setup
Choose per-request rotation to assign a new IP on every page, ideal for broad sweeps across many listings, or timed rotation to change IPs on a fixed interval. When a check spans several requests, such as opening a seller profile and paging through their catalog, enable a sticky session, configurable from 1 minute to 2 hours, to keep one IP for the whole sequence. All pools support HTTP, HTTPS, and SOCKS5 with user:pass authentication, so your crawler integrates with one credential string regardless of which marketplace or region you target.
Best Practices
Set the rotating IP's geo to each market you police, since counterfeit listings often appear only to shoppers in targeted countries. Use per-request rotation for wide listing sweeps and a short sticky session when you drill into a single seller's catalog. Capture screenshots, URLs, prices, and exit IPs with timestamps so your evidence holds up in takedown filings. Spread crawls across the day instead of one burst to mirror organic traffic patterns. Re-scan flagged sellers periodically, because counterfeiters relist under new names and the graph of bad actors keeps shifting.
Common Pitfalls
A frequent error is monitoring from a single geo and missing region-locked counterfeits entirely. Another is rotating mid-sequence while paging through one seller's catalog, which fragments the session and loses the linkage between listings; use a sticky session there. Don't rely on datacenter IPs for marketplaces that aggressively cloak, since you will capture sanitized pages rather than the real infringing listing. Avoid scanning so fast from one sticky IP that you hit the marketplace's per-account or per-IP limits. Finally, never skip evidence capture; an unrecorded infringement is hard to action.
Pricing & Scaling
Monitoring is pay-as-you-go per GB, so you pay only for the pages you actually scan. Residential-backed rotation runs from $2.98/GB down to $1/GB at volume, with Residential Lite from $0.30/GB to $0.16/GB for large continuous sweeps. US-only Datacenter rotation runs from $0.70/GB to $0.16/GB, and Mobile spans $2.98/GB to $1.20/GB; the cheapest entry is $0.16/GB. With up to 50,000 concurrent connections and millions of IPs in rotation, you can expand from spot-checking a few marketplaces to global, scheduled brand surveillance on one account.
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