Brazil Proxies: Brazilian Residential IPs

A Brazil proxy routes your request through an IP address located in Brazil, so Brazilian websites like Mercado Livre and Google.com.br see domestic traffic and show local prices, shipping costs and search results. MrScraper has 7,620,826 residential IPs in Brazil, priced at $1.50 per GB.

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The fastest way to judge Brazilian coverage is to test it. The free trial includes 1 GB, enough for a few thousand Mercado Livre product pages.

What a Brazil proxy is and when you need one

A Brazil proxy makes your scraper appear to be a person browsing from inside Brazil. Brazilian sites use your IP address to decide which prices, sellers, shipping options and search results to show. A request from a US or European IP often gets the international version of a page, a redirect, or a block.

You need a Brazilian IP proxy when the data you want only exists for Brazilian visitors:

• Marketplace prices and sellers. Mercado Livre, Shopee Brasil and Magazine Luiza show local sellers, instalment offers (parcelamento) and Pix discounts to Brazilian traffic.
• Local search results. Google.com.br ranks results differently for a searcher in São Paulo than for one in Miami.
• Regional pricing. Shipping cost and delivery time change by state, and sometimes the product price does too.
• Latin American market research. Brazil is the largest e-commerce market in Latin America, so it is usually the first market international teams track. Latin American IP supply is thinner than North American or European supply. That is why pool size matters more here than in most markets. Many Brazil proxy providers quote a global pool size and leave you to discover the Brazilian share after you have paid. We publish the Brazilian number: 7,620,826 residential IPs. The free trial lets you check it yourself.

State and city data: why the CEP matters more than the IP

Brazil covers 8.5 million km² and 26 states plus the Federal District. The Brazil proxy targets at country level: every request exits through a Brazilian residential IP, but you can't pin it to a specific state or city.

For Brazilian retail, that is rarely the limit. Most Brazilian sites decide regional shipping cost, delivery time and availability from the CEP (postal code) you enter, not from your IP. So the CEP is how you choose the region:

The next section explains how CEP-based pricing works and which reference CEPs to use for each region.

Why Brazilian prices change by state: CEP, freight and regional availability

In Brazil, the price you see depends on where the site thinks you are. There are three reasons.

1. Freight is expensive and uneven

Most Brazilian e-commerce stock ships from warehouses in the Southeast, mainly São Paulo state. Shipping to the North and Northeast crosses thousands of kilometres of road, so freight costs and delivery times are materially higher there. The same item can show free next-day delivery in São Paulo and a paid, week-long delivery in Manaus.

2. Sites price by CEP, not by IP alone

Many Brazilian retail sites ask for a CEP (Código de Endereçamento Postal, the 8-digit postal code, formatted 00000-000) before they show shipping cost, delivery date and sometimes stock. The CEP is often stored in a cookie or sent to a shipping-calculation endpoint. If your scraper does not supply a CEP, you get a default region's data or no shipping data at all. If it supplies a CEP, the CEP you pick changes the result.

Use a consistent set of reference CEPs, one per region you care about:

Because the Brazil proxy targets at country level, the CEP is your regional control. Use a sticky session when you set a CEP and then load several pages, so the site sees one consistent visitor.

3. Availability and taxes vary regionally

Some sellers only ship to certain states, and marketplace listings can disappear outside a seller's delivery area. State sales tax (ICMS) also differs between states and for interstate sales, which can shift final prices.

For accurate Brazilian price intelligence, record the CEP alongside every price you collect.

Handling Portuguese content and encoding

Brazilian Portuguese uses ç, ã, õ, á, é, ê and í constantly: preço, promoção, frete grátis, São Paulo. Almost all modern Brazilian sites serve UTF-8. Some older retail and government sites still send ISO-8859-1 or Windows-1252.

Problems happen when a scraper guesses wrong. UTF-8 decoded as Latin-1 turns promoção into promoção. To avoid it:

1. Read the charset from the Content-Type header, then the <meta charset> tag. Don't assume.
2. Watch for library defaults. Python requests falls back to ISO-8859-1 for text/html without a charset. Set the encoding explicitly or use apparent_encoding.
3. URL-encode Portuguese search terms as UTF-8. São Paulo becomes S%C3%A3o%20Paulo.
4. Write output files as UTF-8. Many CSV issues come from saving in the system default encoding.
5. Normalise before comparing. The same accented character can arrive composed (NFC) or decomposed (NFD). Normalise to NFC before matching product names. Also send Accept-Language: pt-BR so sites return Brazilian Portuguese (português do Brasil) rather than Spanish or English.

Why residential proxies for Brazil, not ISP or datacenter

MrScraper offers residential proxies only. For Brazil, that is the type that works on the sites people actually scrape.

For marketplaces and search, residential proxy Brazil coverage is the right default, because Brazilian retailers block datacenter ranges quickly. For long sessions that ISP proxies are usually bought for, use a sticky session that holds the same Brazilian IP for up to 60 minutes. If you would rather not manage blocks, CAPTCHAs and retries yourself, Web Unblocker handles them for you.

More detail: Datacenter proxies vs residential proxies.

What people use Brazil proxies for

Mercado Livre price and listing monitoring

Mercado Livre is Brazil's largest e-commerce marketplace, the way Amazon is in the US. Brands and retailers track prices, sellers, instalment terms, Full (fulfilled) badges, reviews and unauthorised resellers. Mercado Livre shows shipping cost and delivery time by CEP, so send a CEP for each region you track. [Link to Mercado Livre use-case page if one exists]

Magazine Luiza and Americanas retail pricing

Magazine Luiza, Americanas and Casas Bahia are major Brazilian retailers for electronics, home goods and appliances. Track list prices, Pix discounts, parcelamento offers and stock by region. Shopee Brasil adds a growing low-price marketplace to the picture.

Google.com.br SERP tracking

Google.com.br results differ from Google.com. Track rankings and Shopping results from a Brazilian IP, with hl=pt-BR and gl=br set. For local packs in São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro or Recife, add a location parameter such as Google's uule to the request.

Classifieds and property listings

OLX Brasil is the country's largest classifieds site for vehicles, goods and property. QuintoAndar and ZAP Imóveis cover rentals and sales, used for rent indices and property valuation models. iFood data on restaurant menus, delivery fees and coverage areas is used in food-delivery market research.

Latin American market research

Brazil is the usual starting point for Latin American expansion research: pricing benchmarks, competitor assortment, marketplace share and ad monitoring. Many teams add Mexico, Argentina and Colombia later with the same setup, changing only the country code: mx, ar or co.

Latency and performance from outside Brazil

Brazil is far from most scraping infrastructure. Expect these rough figures:

Round-trip figures are typical public-internet ranges. Residential response times also depend on the participant's home connection and the target site.

To keep throughput high:

• Run more concurrent requests rather than waiting on each one. Concurrency is unlimited, so parallelism is the main lever against distance.
• Use rotating sessions for bulk page fetches so a slow IP only affects one request.
• Set timeouts around 30 s and retry once, instead of failing on the first slow response.
• Host your scraper in a São Paulo cloud region if Brazil is a large share of your volume.

How to set up a Brazil proxy

Every request goes to one Brazil proxy server endpoint, proxy.mrscraper.com, with the country set in your username. Use port 10000 for HTTP (http://) or port 10001 for SOCKS5 (socks5://). No SDK is required; any HTTP or SOCKS5 client works. The MrScraper dashboard also generates ready-made integration code for Puppeteer, Playwright, CloakBrowser and Selenium.

The examples below search for Portuguese terms (geladeira frost free, promoção), send Accept-Language: pt-BR, and decode the response correctly. The CEP examples use a placeholder cookie name, because each site stores the CEP differently. Check your target in the browser's DevTools to find the right one.

curl

# Check that your IP resolves to Brazil
curl -x 'http://USERNAME-country-br:PASSWORD@proxy.mrscraper.com:10000' \
  'https://ipinfo.io/json'
 
# Same check over SOCKS5 (port 10001)
curl -x 'socks5h://USERNAME-country-br:PASSWORD@proxy.mrscraper.com:10001' \
  'https://ipinfo.io/json'
 
# Search Mercado Livre for "geladeira frost free" from a Brazilian IP
curl -x 'http://USERNAME-country-br:PASSWORD@proxy.mrscraper.com:10000' \
  -H 'Accept-Language: pt-BR,pt;q=0.9' \
  'https://lista.mercadolivre.com.br/geladeira-frost-free'

Python

import unicodedata
import requests
from urllib.parse import quote
 
# Sticky session: keep the same Brazilian IP for 30 minutes while the CEP is set
proxy = "http://USERNAME-country-br-sessid-cep1-sesstime-30:PASSWORD@proxy.mrscraper.com:10000"
proxies = {"http": proxy, "https": proxy}
headers = {"Accept-Language": "pt-BR,pt;q=0.9"}
 
# The CEP sets the region (São Paulo: 01310-100, Av. Paulista)
cookies = {"SITE_CEP_COOKIE": "01310100"}  # cookie name varies by site
 
query = "promoção geladeira"
url = f"https://www.google.com.br/search?q={quote(query)}&hl=pt-BR&gl=br"
 
resp = requests.get(url, proxies=proxies, headers=headers,
                    cookies=cookies, timeout=30)
 
# requests defaults to ISO-8859-1 when no charset is sent; don't trust it
if not resp.encoding or resp.encoding.lower() == "iso-8859-1":
    resp.encoding = resp.apparent_encoding or "utf-8"
 
html = unicodedata.normalize("NFC", resp.text)
print("promoção" in html)  # True when ç and ã survived decoding
 
with open("serp_br.html", "w", encoding="utf-8") as f:
    f.write(html)

Node.js

// npm install undici
import { ProxyAgent, fetch } from "undici";
 
const agent = new ProxyAgent(
  "http://USERNAME-country-br-sessid-cep1-sesstime-30:PASSWORD@proxy.mrscraper.com:10000"
);
 
const query = encodeURIComponent("promoção geladeira"); // UTF-8 percent-encoding
const url = `https://www.google.com.br/search?q=${query}&hl=pt-BR&gl=br`;
 
const res = await fetch(url, {
  dispatcher: agent,
  headers: {
    "Accept-Language": "pt-BR,pt;q=0.9",
    Cookie: "SITE_CEP_COOKIE=01310100", // cookie name varies by site
  },
});
 
// Read the charset the server declares; fall back to UTF-8
const type = res.headers.get("content-type") || "";
const charset = (type.match(/charset=([^;]+)/i)?.[1] || "utf-8").trim();
const html = new TextDecoder(charset).decode(await res.arrayBuffer()).normalize("NFC");
 
console.log(html.includes("promoção"));

The Python and Node examples use a static (sticky) session. Add a session ID and duration to the username, for example USERNAME-country-br-sessid-cep1-sesstime-30. Requests with the same -sessid- share one Brazilian IP for the -sesstime- you set, up to 60 minutes (10 minutes by default). When it expires, the next request gets a new IP. Leave both out for rotating sessions, which assign a new IP on every request. More detail: Sticky vs rotating residential proxies.

The LGPD and how our Brazilian IPs are sourced

Brazil's data protection law is the LGPD (Lei Geral de Proteção de Dados, Law No. 13,709/2018). It is closely modelled on GDPR. It has been in force since September 2020 and is enforced by the ANPD, the national data protection authority. Processing personal data of people in Brazil requires a legal basis under the LGPD. Fines can reach 2% of a company's revenue in Brazil, capped at R$50 million per violation.

What that means for a Brazil proxy:

• Sourcing. Every Brazilian residential IP is a real consumer connection in Brazil, sourced with consent.
• Security. MrScraper is ISO 27001:2022 certified and SOC 2 Type II compliant. Documentation is available in our Trust Center.
• Retention. We do not store the content of pages you request. Account-level usage logs are kept for billing. [VERIFY retention periods]
• Your responsibility. Scraping public prices and listings is common practice. Collecting personal data about people in Brazil, such as names, CPF numbers or contact details, needs its own LGPD legal basis. Our acceptable use policy prohibits collecting sensitive personal data. [VERIFY AUP URL]

Pricing

Brazil proxies cost $1.50 per GB. You pay for the bandwidth you use, and rotating and sticky sessions are included at no extra cost.

Not sure the Brazilian pool covers your targets? Start free with 1 GB and run your own Mercado Livre or Google.com.br test before you commit.