South Africa Proxies
South Africa's digital ecosystem is the most sophisticated on the continent, with platforms like Takealot, Property24, and banking portals aggressively geo-fencing content for local users. Rand-denominated pricing, JSE financial data, and DStv streaming content all require South African IPs to access accurately. Residential proxies are essential for retail intelligence, financial research, and media monitoring across the Rainbow Nation.
South Africa vs top markets
Spider offers nearly 2 million South African residential IPs with city-level targeting across Gauteng, Western Cape, and KwaZulu-Natal, covering the country's three largest commercial hubs.
Proxy usage in South Africa
Vodacom, MTN South Africa, Cell C, and Telkom Mobile provide competitive mobile broadband with growing 5G coverage in metros. Multiple submarine cables land at Cape Town, Durban, and Mtunzini including WACS, SAT-3, SAFE, SEACOM, and 2Africa, making South Africa the continent's most connected nation.
E-commerce Price Intelligence
Monitor Takealot, Makro, and Checkers Sixty60 for real-time product pricing across South Africa's competitive retail landscape.
JSE Market Data
Scrape Johannesburg Stock Exchange listings, SENS announcements, and BEE compliance data for investment research.
Load Shedding Monitoring
Track Eskom load shedding schedules and municipal power data to correlate with business impact analysis.
Route through South Africa in 3 steps
Set country code
Add "country": "za" to your API request or proxy URL to route through South Africa.
"country": "za" Smart IP selection
Spider picks the best available South Africa IP from residential, ISP, and mobile pools.
Receive data
Get your response routed through a South Africa IP with automatic rotation on every request.
{ "status": 200, "ip": "za-xxx" } Route through South Africa
curl -X POST https://api.spider.cloud/crawl \
-H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"url": "https://example.com",
"proxy_enabled": true,
"country": "za",
"return_format": "json"
}'Proxy types
Residential Proxies
Route through real home internet connections. Residential IPs are assigned by ISPs to homeowners, making them virtually indistinguishable from regular users. Best for accessing sites with strict bot detection.
ISP Proxies
Data-center IPs registered to legitimate internet service providers. Faster than residential with good trust scores. Ideal for large-scale operations where speed matters more than stealth.
Mobile Proxies
Route through real 4G/5G cellular connections. Mobile IPs are shared by thousands of real users on carrier NAT, making them nearly impossible to block. Highest anonymity tier.
South Africa proxy questions
How many proxy IPs are available in South africa?
Spider currently has 1,905,898 residential, ISP, and mobile proxy IPs in South africa (ZA). The pool is continuously refreshed to maintain high success rates.
What proxy types work best in South africa?
Residential proxies provide the highest trust level in South africa and work for most use cases. ISP proxies are faster and suit high-volume data collection. Mobile proxies are recommended for platforms that aggressively fingerprint connections.
How do I route requests through South africa?
Set "country": "za" and "proxy_enabled": true in your API request. Spider will automatically select the best available IP in South africa and handle rotation.
Is there a latency difference for South africa proxies?
Latency depends on your server location relative to South africa. Residential proxies in South africa typically average 150-400ms. ISP proxies are faster at 50-150ms. Spider selects the lowest-latency IP available in the target country.
Can I use sticky sessions with South africa proxies?
Yes. Set a session ID in your request to maintain the same South africa IP across multiple requests. Sticky sessions last up to 10 minutes, which is useful for multi-page scraping flows that require IP consistency.
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