How to know Apple's next price rise? Use home IPs for data
Alex
2026-06-28 16:00
On June 25, 2026, Apple made a large-scale price adjustment. The MacBook Pro increased by 2,500 yuan, the iPad Pro increased by 1,800 yuan, and the Mac Studio increased by 3,500 yuan. This was the largest apple price increase in recent years.
Many people are paying attention to the price changes of Apple products. Ordinary consumers want to place orders before the price increase. Second-hand merchants need to adjust their inventory strategies. Digital enthusiasts also want to know Apple’s pricing rules. If there is a tool that can detect price changes immediately, it can help us make faster decisions.
Many people use data collection for prices, but often encounter problems. If the same IP address is accessed too many times, the website will trigger a verification code or directly reject the access.
The core of the problem is actually very simple: The website wants to distinguish whether you are a real person or a machine. If your access does not look like that of a normal user, it will be blocked.
The Residential IP is used to solve this problem. It comes from the home broadband network. When the website sees this IP, it will assume that it is an ordinary person surfing the internet.
The Residential IP has the following advantages:
The data obtained is more accurate. The Residential IP can see the same content as local users, and the data will not have deviations.
It is less likely to be blocked. The Residential IP comes from various home networks across different regions, and the source is dispersed. The website is very aware of this.
It can be changed by region. It supports multiple countries and regions around the world, and can obtain local prices in different regions.
If you use the IP from a data center, you will be easily identified. The Residential IP is much safer.
The entire tool is divided into four parts:
There are many options available on the market. When making a choice, you can consider the following points:
Is the IP quantity sufficient? The wider the coverage area, the better. Zooproxy has a high coverage rate and is supported in multiple countries and regions.
How is the charging? Charging by traffic is more suitable for monitoring scripts. Charging by IP quantity is suitable for large-scale concurrency.
Dynamic or static. For price monitoring, dynamic residential IPs are recommended. Each request will automatically change the IP, making it less likely to be detected. If you need to maintain the login status, choose the static one.
Reasons for choosing Zooproxy
Pure and reliable: Home or enterprise IP, consistent with the internet access of ordinary users. The platform is identified as a normal user, significantly reducing risks.
The resources are extensive: a large and continuously updated pool of residential IPs, covering major cities in various countries and regions.
Stable and efficient, with outstanding performance: High-quality home broadband, featuring high speed, low latency, and few packet losses. Capable of smoothly handling high-concurrency data collection and shortening project cycles.
Flexible and easy to use, with rapid integration: Supports HTTP/HTTPS/SOCKS5 protocols, compatible with mainstream languages and tools. The configuration can be completed in just a few minutes.
You need a computer that can be on 24 hours a day, or a cloud server. Then install the Python environment and several commonly used libraries, such as the network request library and the web parsing library. There are ready-made installation tutorials for these on the internet.
The entire collection process can be designed as follows:
First of all, you need to list the links of the products you want to monitor. These can be the product pages on Apple’s official website, or the pages on the e-commerce platform.
Then, write a collection function. This function will send a network request through the residential IP, obtain the web page content, and then extract the price figures from it. The price labels on different websites are different, so you need to manually check the web page source code to find the position corresponding to the price.
Next, set up a loop. At regular intervals (every few minutes or hours), visit these links one by one and retrieve the prices.
In order to ensure a more stable collection, there are several points you need to pay attention to:
Wait at least a few seconds between each request. Don’t be in a hurry.
The waiting time can vary randomly. Don’t make it the same every time.
For each request, you can change the browser identifier or configure the fingerprint device.
If you are using a dynamic residential IP, the service provider will automatically change your IP address for you. If you are controlling it yourself, change it every 10 to 20 requests.
There is a special feature on the Apple website. The price information might be dynamically loaded through JavaScript. Ordinary direct collection might not be able to obtain the complete content. At this time, there are two solutions: one is to use the method of changing the browser, and the other is to use the dedicated collection channel provided by professional service providers. They usually have already handled these technical details.
Each collected price can be saved in a table file in chronological order. Each row of the record includes the time, the name of the product and the price.
After accumulating data for some time, you will be able to conduct trend analysis. For instance, you can calculate the average price over the past seven days, and then observe whether there is a significant difference between the latest price and the average price. If the increase exceeds a certain percentage, an alert can be triggered.
There are various ways to give reminders. You can set it to send emails, or use the robot on Enterprise WeChat or DingTalk to send messages. In this way, you don’t need to keep staring at the screen. When the price changes, the system will automatically notify you.
In light of the recent price increase by Apple, this set of tools can assist you with:
The current situation is as follows:
Don’t visit too frequently.
It is recommended to have an interval of 3 to 5 minutes between each check. Price monitoring is a long-term battle, and stability is more important than speed.
The data needs to be verified.
It is advisable to verify the important data multiple times. You can use three different IP addresses from different regions to collect data simultaneously, and then take the average value. This can reduce accidental errors.
Pay attention to the completeness rate
A failed collection does not necessarily result in an error. In many cases, it is due to the absence of data for the price or inventory fields. For each region, it is necessary to record the success rate and completeness rate, so as to understand the quality of the IP.
Don’t be greedy for cheap deals.
Don’t buy shared IP. For price monitoring, you must use a dedicated residential IP. Residential IP is indeed more expensive than data center IP, but it has much higher stability and success rate.
Conduct a preliminary test on a small scale
Before the official launch, conduct small-scale tests on a few products first. Once the results are confirmed to be satisfactory, then expand the scale.
Monitoring Apple’s prices through residential IP cameras essentially involves two main tasks: collecting data based on the normal online behavior of users, and regularly recording price changes. Apple has just undergone a major price increase, and it’s uncertain whether there will be further hikes in the future. But with this monitoring tool, you don’t have to guess. As soon as the price changes, you’ll know immediately. Whether you’re buying things yourself to save money or running a business that needs to adjust strategies, knowing things in advance gives you an advantage.
