G2 Mobile Proxies for Software Review Research

G2 is where many B2B buyers compare software, and vendors watch it closely: category grids, review counts, star ratings, badges and competitor positioning all feed sales and marketing decisions. G2 is also one of the more heavily protected review sites, and automated clients meet challenges early. This page is written for product marketers, competitive intelligence analysts and data engineers who need G2 information in a way that fits the site's rules, and it explains what a dedicated WeProx US mobile line helps with and where the vendor tools are simply the better answer.

Vendors have a data path already

If your company has a G2 profile, G2 provides vendor-side tools and integrations covering your own reviews, buyer intent signals and review content for approved marketing use, depending on your plan. That is the correct source for anything about your own product: it is complete, it includes reviews you could not see as a visitor, and its use is licensed. Start there. Many teams building crawlers for their own reviews discover the data was available in their vendor account all along.

What people still check on the site

Competitive teams look at category pages to see where products sit on the grid, how many reviews each has, and how ratings shift after a release. Marketers check how their own product page renders to a first-time US visitor, which badges show, and how comparison pages frame them against rivals. Those checks are small in volume and repeated on a schedule, weekly for most categories, and they are well suited to a person or a gentle script in a real browser.

• Grid position and review count per category, weekly.
• Your product page and comparison pages as a logged-out visitor.
• Rating changes after major releases, yours and peers.

Why challenges come early, and what a line changes

G2 uses bot management that weighs IP reputation together with TLS and browser fingerprints, cookie continuity and timing. Datacenter IPs and busy corporate VPN exits score poorly on the first signal before a single page is read, so teams working from those networks see challenges constantly, even when browsing by hand. A WeProx line is a single US carrier device dedicated to your team; its address comes from the carrier's CGNAT pool shared with ordinary phone users, so the IP itself looks like consumer traffic. Keep a real browser, keep the line sticky through a session, and move at human speed.

What the line does not do is make a fast crawler acceptable. G2's terms restrict automated collection, and a script that fires hundreds of page requests will be challenged whatever the address. Do not automate challenge solving. If a challenge appears, the session is over; come back later, slower.

Structuring a weekly check

Keep a list of category and product URLs. Each week, open them in one browser session on the line, capturing grid position, review count and average rating, with natural pauses. One line covers this for a sizable competitive set. Rotation is rarely needed; if you do rotate, do it between sessions, never in the middle of one. Unlimited data means the heavy, script-rich pages load fully, which keeps the session looking like an ordinary visit. G2 content is the same across US metros, so any WeProx city with stock works; pick the one nearest your team for latency.

Keep your weekly capture in a simple table with the date, category, product, grid segment, review count and rating, so quarter-over-quarter comparisons take minutes.

Handling review text

Reviews carry reviewer names, job titles and company sizes. For competitive analysis you need themes and ratings, not identities. Summarize at the aggregate level, avoid storing names, and do not republish review text, which is content owned under G2's terms. For your own reviews, use the vendor tools, which cover approved reuse.

Troubleshooting

Constant challenges even at human pace usually mean part of the browser still exits through the corporate network; check DNS and extensions. A grid that looks different from a colleague's view can be personalization or a signed-in state; compare logged out. Errors right after a rotation are the modem re-attaching.

Setting up a G2 proxy on WeProx

1. Check what your G2 vendor account already provides for your own product.
2. List the category and competitor URLs you review each week.
3. Order a WeProx line near your team and copy its credentials.
4. Create a dedicated browser profile routed through the line.
5. Run the weekly check at human pace in one sticky session.
6. Record positions, counts and ratings, not reviewer identities.

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