Why should I care?
When many requests are sent to a website from the same IP, the website can tag the IP used as a crawler and send misleading information or block you. Periodically changing, or rotating, your IP address helps prevent a target site from identifying your IP as a crawler. Rotating your IPs can drop your failure rate below 1%.
How do I rotate my IP address?
With its easy-to-use proxy manager, Luminati allows you to control:
- Number of requests permitted before changing the IP
- Amount of time between IP changes
- The quantity of IPs in your rotation pool
Guidelines for rotating your IP address with Luminati:
- Sign up for Luminati
- Contact Luminati’s support team and ask for access to the residential IP network Once activated, install the Luminati proxy manager from GitHub. We recommend you watch this guide for a smooth start
- Go to the ‘proxies’ tab
- Click on the proxy you want to edit, then on the edit button
- Browse rotation options under “Preset” or “IP Policy”
- Route your requests to 127.0.0.1:{portnum} where{portnum} is the port of the residential zone
