Topic Ecommerce
Best Buy price tracker: price drops, the price match, stock and the API
Best Buy matches its own lower price during the return period. Its Developer API gives sale price, regular price and stock, and its terms set rules for bots.
Flipkart price tracker: price history, the tools and building your own
A Flipkart product page we read showed no price history. Trackers say they check prices several times a day; the Affiliate API gives the MRP and prices.
Proxies for Argos: the Argos stock checker, and what argos.co.uk showed our server
Argos checks stock on every product page: enter a town or postcode and pick a store. Its app and store checkers do too. What argos.co.uk showed our server.
Proxies for Autotrader: price drop alerts, price labels and what autotrader.co.uk allows
Autotrader UK has its own price drop alerts and price labels against its valuation. What outside price trackers do, and what Autotrader's terms allow.
Proxies for Takealot: price trackers, wish lists and what Takealot's terms allow
Takealot's app listings name no price history, so outside trackers fill the gap. What they do, what Takealot's terms say about robots, and its Seller API.
Proxies for Tesco: the stock checker in the Tesco app, and what tesco.com showed our server
Tesco's own stock checker is Stock Check in its app, with live stock for your local store. What tesco.com showed our US server, and what Tesco's terms allow.
We Tested 52 US Retailers' Bot Defenses. Here's Who Runs What
Retail bot-defense study: we sent 52 major US retail sites the same request from a home and a datacenter IP on one day. Which run Akamai, Cloudflare, DataDome, PerimeterX, F5 Shape, Kasada or Imperva, how many block datacenter on sight, and which have no wall at all.
Proxies for Etsy: the Open API, the rate limits and the rules
Etsy data the way Etsy allows: the Open API with listing search, shop sales counts and reviews, the rate limits, what etsy.com did to our server, and the rules.
Proxies for Walmart: the Robot or human check, the terms and the official APIs
Walmart asked our server to press and hold before it would show its terms, and those terms bar robots and scrapers without written consent. What the check is, what the terms and robots.txt say, the seller APIs, and where the Walmart proxy statement is.
Proxies that don't die mid-job
Residential, ISP, datacenter and mobile, verified by the same engine that runs tens of millions of checks. They read as a real device and hold up under load. Pay as you go, and your balance never expires. $0.44/GB is the 2,000 GB+ rate; a single gigabyte is $0.50/GB, with no minimum order.
129M+ proxy checks run · 100+ countries · HTTP / HTTPS / SOCKS · re-checked every few minutes · no signup