How to Set Up Proxies for Sneaker Botting & Checkout Automation

Learn how to bypass retail anti-bot firewalls and secure the drop.

If you are running automated checkouts on Shopify, Nike SNKRS, or Supreme, you already know that speed and stealth are everything. Retailers have deployed massive anti-bot infrastructures specifically designed to ban your local IP address the second you send too many requests.

The Problem with Local IPs

When a limited sneaker drops, bots send hundreds of requests per second to add the item to the cart and process the payment. If all of these requests come from your single home IP address, the retailer's firewall will instantly flag the traffic as non-human and issue an IP ban.

Datacenter vs. Residential Proxies

Datacenter Proxies: These are blazingly fast but are hosted on commercial servers (like AWS or DigitalOcean). Because anti-bot systems know the IP ranges of these data centers, they are often banned on strictly protected sites.

Residential Proxies: These are the gold standard for sneaker botting. These IPs belong to real, physical home Wi-Fi networks. Retailers cannot easily ban them without accidentally banning real human customers. For the highest success rate, Residential Proxies are mandatory.

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