Use case
What is the best proxy for scraping Shopee and Lazada?
Short answerThe best proxy for scraping Shopee and Lazada is a rotating residential IP in the storefront's own country, such as a Thai IP for shopee.co.th or lazada.co.th, with sticky sessions for search pagination. Jade Proxies sells residential IPs in all 7 Asian countries where Shopee or Lazada run a storefront, at $0.66/GB on the 10 GB plan.
Which proxy type works best for Shopee and Lazada scraping?
Rotating residential proxies work best for Shopee and Lazada scraping and price monitoring, because they exit through the same home ISPs as real shoppers. Marketplaces challenge traffic from cloud and hosting ranges early, so a datacenter IP spends more of its traffic on challenge pages than on product data.
| Proxy type | Fit for Shopee and Lazada | Price at Jade Proxies | Main limit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Datacenter | Weak: hosting ranges are challenged early | Not sold | — |
| Rotating residential | Default for product, search and category pages | $0.50/GB to $1.50/GB | Speed varies with each home connection |
| Rotating mobile (per GB) | Views that differ in the mobile app | $0.90/GB | Country-level targeting only |
| Dedicated 4G/5G port | App checks on one named carrier | From $3/day | One IP at a time |
Which country IP does each marketplace need?
Each marketplace needs an IP in the country of the storefront, because Shopee and Lazada run a separate site per country, with its own domain, currency, catalogue, vouchers and shipping fees. A price read from the wrong country is a different product listing, not a cheaper one.
| Country | Marketplaces | Domains | Username parameter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Indonesia | Shopee, Lazada, Tokopedia | shopee.co.id, lazada.co.id, tokopedia.com | country-id |
| Thailand | Shopee, Lazada | shopee.co.th, lazada.co.th | country-th |
| Vietnam | Shopee, Lazada | shopee.vn, lazada.vn | country-vn |
| Philippines | Shopee, Lazada | shopee.ph, lazada.com.ph | country-ph |
| Malaysia | Shopee, Lazada | shopee.com.my, lazada.com.my | country-my |
| Singapore | Shopee, Lazada | shopee.sg, lazada.sg | country-sg |
| Taiwan | Shopee | shopee.tw | country-tw |
| Japan | Rakuten Ichiba | rakuten.co.jp | country-jp |
| South Korea | Coupang | coupang.com | country-kr |
Tokopedia is Indonesian, Rakuten Ichiba Japanese and Coupang Korean; the same country rule applies to them. One Jade Proxies balance covers every row, and the price per GB is the same in all 13 countries. When delivery fees or stock differ between cities, add the city to the username, for example city-jakarta or city-bangkok: Jade Proxies offers country and city targeting on every plan; ASN targeting at no extra cost; city availability varies. The Indonesia proxy guide lists the ISPs and cities available there.
Should you use sticky sessions or rotation for marketplace scraping?
Use sticky sessions for search and category pagination, and rotation for product pages. A search on Shopee or Lazada spans many result pages tied to one set of cookies; changing the IP halfway through can reset the sort order or trigger a check. Product pages stand alone, so each one can leave from a different IP.
With Jade Proxies, sticky sessions last up to 30 minutes (the IP can change earlier), and for rotation each new connection gets an IP from the pool, usually a different one; to get a new IP on every request, send one request per connection (turn off keep-alive). The gateway is gw.jadeproxies.com on port 7777 (HTTP) or 7778 (SOCKS5), and every setting lives in the username:
| Task | Session mode | Username example |
|---|---|---|
| Search results, pages 1 to 20 | Sticky, 10 minutes | USERNAME-country-th-session-s101-ttl-10 |
| Category listing, full crawl | Sticky, 30 minutes | USERNAME-country-my-session-c7-ttl-30 |
| Product detail pages | Rotating | USERNAME-country-th |
| Daily price and stock recheck | Rotating | USERNAME-country-vn |
The rotating vs sticky guide explains how to pick a session length when a site expects the same visitor across pages.
How much traffic does Shopee and Lazada scraping use?
Traffic equals pages fetched multiplied by the average page weight. Neither marketplace publishes page weights, and the weight depends on how you fetch, so the two figures below are assumptions for planning, not measurements:
- Assumption A: 100 KB per page. Your scraper requests the HTML or the JSON a page loads, without images, video or fonts.
- Assumption B: 1 MB per page. A headless browser renders each page with images blocked.
The arithmetic: 10,000 product pages × 100 KB = 1,000,000 KB = 1 GB under assumption A, and 10 GB under assumption B. At Jade Proxies, usage counts all data sent and received through the proxy (upload and download, headers included); 1 GB = 1,000,000,000 bytes; connection attempts that fail before reaching the target are not counted. Retries and challenge pages that reach the site count too, so a scraper with a high retry rate uses more than the page count suggests.
To replace the assumption with your own figure, fetch 1,000 pages through the 1 GB test plan, read the traffic used on your account and divide by 1,000.
How much does it cost to monitor Shopee and Lazada prices?
Daily monitoring of 10,000 products costs about $15.60 a month under assumption A and $150 under assumption B, using the per-GB rate of the plan that covers the volume. Because residential traffic never expires, a plan larger than one month's need simply lasts longer.
| Workload over 30 days | Pages | Traffic (A: 100 KB) | Cost (A) | Traffic (B: 1 MB) | Cost (B) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1,000 products, once a day | 30,000 | 3 GB | $1.98 | 30 GB | $15.60 |
| 10,000 products, once a day | 300,000 | 30 GB | $15.60 | 300 GB | $150 |
| 10,000 products in 6 Lazada countries, daily | 1,800,000 | 180 GB | $90 | 1,800 GB | $900 |
Rates used: 3 GB at $0.66/GB = $1.98; 30 GB at $0.52/GB = $15.60; 180 GB and more at $0.50/GB. Our price grid shows that the 10 GB plan costs 56% less per GB than the 1 GB test: 0.66 ÷ 1.50 = 0.44 of the test price. Volume, not country, sets the rate, so Taiwan costs the same per GB as the Philippines.
The pricing page lists every plan, including the mobile options.
How do you keep marketplace scraping within the rules?
Collect only public data, keep request rates close to a shopper's pace, and use the official APIs for your own shop. Concretely:
- Public data only. Prices, stock, ratings and seller names shown to any visitor. No logged-in pages, no buyer data, no personal profiles.
- Your own shop through the official APIs. Sellers get orders and listings from the Shopee Open Platform and the Lazada Open Platform; a proxy is for public competitor data.
- Start at about one request per second per storefront. Add concurrency only while the share of errors and challenge pages stays flat, and back off on HTTP 429.
- Cache and schedule. Skip pages whose price has not changed, and plan heavy crawls away from the peak minutes of the 9.9, 11.11 and 12.12 sales.
Jade Proxies sells proxies only: it solves no CAPTCHAs and does not bypass logins. Fraud, spam and account abuse are banned by the acceptable use policy.
What are the limits of residential proxies for marketplace scraping?
Residential proxies fix where requests come from, not how a scraper behaves. A home connection is slower than a datacenter, a device can go offline and end a sticky session early, and a scraper that sends 50 requests a second from many IPs still looks like a bot. City availability varies by country, so test the exact city before building a city-level report.
Frequently asked questions
Do I need a different proxy for each Shopee country?
No. One Jade Proxies residential balance covers every Shopee and Lazada country; you change country-th to country-vn in the username. The price per GB is the same in every country.
How many GB do I need to test Shopee scraping?
1 GB is enough. Under the 100 KB assumption it covers about 10,000 pages, and it lets you measure your real page weight before buying volume. The 1 GB plan costs $1.50, paid from a balance with a $25 minimum top-up.
Should I use mobile proxies for Shopee?
Use them only for views that differ in the Shopee or Lazada app. Rotating mobile data costs $0.90/GB with country-level targeting, while residential drops to $0.66/GB at 10 GB and adds city targeting.
Does Jade Proxies offer a Shopee scraper API?
No. Jade Proxies sells residential and mobile proxies; you bring your own scraper, such as Scrapy, Playwright or Python requests. The proxy works with any tool that supports HTTP, HTTPS and SOCKS5.
Is scraping Shopee and Lazada allowed?
Collecting publicly visible prices for market research is a standard business use, but both marketplaces' terms restrict automated access and personal data is protected by law. Collect no personal data, keep request rates low, use the official APIs for your own shop, and check the terms with your counsel.
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