Proxies for e-commerce price monitoring in Asia

Why does the proxy country matter for price monitoring?

The proxy country matters because Asian marketplaces show different prices, currencies, stock and delivery fees by location. Shopee and Lazada run a separate site per country. A Shopee Vietnam price is only shown correctly to a visitor in Vietnam.

City can matter too. Delivery fees and delivery dates on Rakuten or Flipkart may change between cities. AsiaProxies is an Asia-Pacific proxy provider: residential and 4G/5G mobile IPs in Japan, Korea, India, Indonesia, Vietnam, the Philippines, Thailand, Singapore and Australia, paid in crypto with no KYC.

Should I use residential or mobile proxies for price monitoring?

Use residential proxies for most price monitoring. They cost less per GB, cover every Asia-Pacific country and rotate on each request. Use a sticky session (up to 60 minutes) when a page flow needs the same IP, such as paging through search results.

Use mobile proxies when the data appears only in an app, or when you check mobile-only promotions. A dedicated 4G/5G port costs from $3/day with unlimited traffic. Rotating mobile data costs from $0.90/GB.

How do I monitor marketplace prices politely?

Polite monitoring means you take only public data, slowly, and follow each site's rules. Follow these rules:

• Check for an official API first. Some platforms offer one, such as the Shopee Open Platform for sellers.
• Read the terms of service and robots.txt of each marketplace, and respect them.
• Collect public product data only: price, stock, delivery fee and seller name. Do not log in, and do not collect personal data such as reviewer profiles.
• Keep the rate low. Start with one request every few seconds per site, and use low concurrency.
• Cache results and fetch each product only as often as your report needs.
• Slow down or stop on HTTP 429 or a CAPTCHA. Do not try to bypass it.

Our acceptable use policy forbids scalping, bonus abuse, account farming and ban evasion.

How do I send a price check through a country IP?

Put the target country in the proxy username, add a delay, and check robots.txt before each new site. The example below uses Python and our gateway. Replace the example URLs with public product pages you are allowed to fetch. Full client settings are in the setup guide.

import time, random, requests
from urllib import robotparser
from urllib.parse import urlparse

# Username format: USERNAME-country-{cc}-city-{city}-session-{id}-ttl-{minutes}
USER = "USERNAME-country-id-city-jakarta-session-price01-ttl-10"
PROXY = f"http://{USER}:[email protected]:7777"
PROXIES = {"http": PROXY, "https": PROXY}
HEADERS = {"User-Agent": "PriceMonitor/1.0 (contact: [email protected])"}

def allowed(url):
    root = "{0.scheme}://{0.netloc}".format(urlparse(url))
    rp = robotparser.RobotFileParser(root + "/robots.txt")
    rp.read()
    return rp.can_fetch(HEADERS["User-Agent"], url)

urls = ["https://shop.example/item/1001", "https://shop.example/item/1002"]
for url in urls:
    if not allowed(url):
        print("skip (robots.txt):", url)
        continue
    r = requests.get(url, proxies=PROXIES, headers=HEADERS, timeout=30)
    if r.status_code == 429:
        print("rate limited, stopping")
        break
    print(url, r.status_code, len(r.content))
    time.sleep(random.uniform(3, 6))  # polite delay per request

How much traffic does price monitoring use?

Traffic depends on page size and how many pages you fetch. Measure one product page first, then multiply. For example, if a page averages 200 KB, 10,000 page loads use about 2 GB.

You can cut traffic by requesting only the HTML or the product data endpoint, and by skipping images. Residential traffic never expires, so a $6.60 pack of 10 GB can last for many monitoring cycles. See every tier on the pricing page.