Billal Ainaoui
Billal Ainaoui is the founder of HProxy.com. He started it to make honest proxy infrastructure anyone can afford, and he still reads every support message himself. The guides he signs come from the prices, tests and support questions the team works with every day. HProxy sells proxies, so weigh his view with that in mind.
Founder of HProxy.com · 1666 articles
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Proxies for Botasaurus: a list rotates, a login starts a Node process
Botasaurus takes a proxy as a string, a function or a list. The list rotates in order, and an address with a login starts a Node helper inside Python.
September 20, 2026 · 6 min read
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Proxies for Camofox: the proxy is also the location switch
Camofox takes a proxy in environment variables. Adding one also turns on location matching, and there is a ten second cap you should know about.
September 20, 2026 · 7 min read
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Proxies for career-ops: the tool does not fetch, and the big boards refused us
career-ops instructs your coding assistant to fetch job postings. Its own scripts take no proxy, and in our test the biggest job boards refused both addresses.
September 20, 2026 · 6 min read
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Proxies for CloakBrowser: three routes for one login
CloakBrowser takes a proxy in one argument, but your login can travel three different ways. Which one you get depends on your platform and your build.
September 20, 2026 · 8 min read
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Proxies for cobalt: three settings, and what they cost you
A self-hosted cobalt instance takes HTTP_PROXY, HTTPS_PROXY and NO_PROXY. What the proxy then carries, what it costs in traffic, and what it rules out.
September 20, 2026 · 7 min read
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Proxies for ComfyUI: the variable reaches half your install
ComfyUI has no proxy setting. The usual variables route the Manager and the frontend update, and never the server's own calls. We measured both.
September 20, 2026 · 7 min read
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Proxies for Crawlee: what actually moves it to the expensive tier
Crawlee picks a proxy per session or per tier. We ran its own tier algorithm: on a blocking domain a third of requests still use the cheapest tier.
September 20, 2026 · 8 min read
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Proxies for curl_cffi: the argument, and the exception you must catch
curl_cffi takes a proxy in one argument and keeps the password out of the URL. It also decides which exception a failed proxy raises, and that one surprises.
September 20, 2026 · 6 min read
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Proxies for deep research agents: which lane did that request take?
A research agent has several network lanes and your proxy variable reaches only some. What we found reading fifty three of them, with our own measurements.
September 20, 2026 · 8 min read
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Proxies for DeerFlow: one tool takes an address, the other does not
DeerFlow has no global proxy. Its page fetch tool takes one in the config file, its search tool takes none, and containers need an exclusion list.
September 20, 2026 · 7 min read
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Proxies for gallery-dl: route the metadata, skip the files
gallery-dl can give its metadata requests and its file downloads different proxies, or none at all. On a per gigabyte line that is the whole bill.
September 20, 2026 · 5 min read
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Proxies for GPT Researcher: the two scrapers that cannot use one
GPT Researcher has no proxy setting. Its static scraper gets one from the environment for free, and both of its browser scrapers cannot take one at all.
September 20, 2026 · 6 min read
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Proxies for Instaloader: no option, and why a new address rarely helps
Instaloader has no proxy setting. The environment variables work anyway, and its own rate limiter is the reason a fresh address so often changes nothing.
September 20, 2026 · 6 min read
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Proxies for Jina Reader: two headers, and what auto really means
Jina Reader has two proxy headers: one uses its pool, one takes your address. And auto means a random English-speaking country.
September 20, 2026 · 5 min read
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Proxies for Langflow: a security default decides whether yours is used
Langflow builds its HTTP client one of two ways. The default one pins addresses and never consults your proxy variables, and the code says why.
September 20, 2026 · 6 min read
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Proxies for last30days: which of its lanes your setting reaches
This skill reads six sources in one run, through four different network lanes. A proxy variable reaches some of them. We read the code and measured the rest.
September 20, 2026 · 8 min read
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Proxies for LibreChat: one variable, two resolvers
LibreChat prefers its own PROXY variable for model calls. Its web search lane resolves through a different library that never reads that variable.
September 20, 2026 · 6 min read
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Proxies for LlamaIndex: twenty four readers, four different answers
LlamaIndex ships 24 web readers. One takes a proxy argument and drops the login, some obey your environment variables, and some do not. Here is which.
September 20, 2026 · 6 min read
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Proxies for Maxun: what the test button actually proves
Maxun stores your proxy encrypted, per user, and applies it to the browser. Its test button opens one harmless page, which is less than most people assume.
September 20, 2026 · 5 min read
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Proxies for nanobot: the setting exists, and it switches something off
nanobot has a real proxy setting for its web tools. Setting it also replaces the transport that pins each resolved address, and that is worth knowing.
September 20, 2026 · 7 min read
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Proxies for NanoClaw: the proxy variable is already taken
In NanoClaw, HTTPS_PROXY inside the agent points at a credential gateway. Exporting your own there bypasses that gateway, and credential injection goes with it.
September 20, 2026 · 6 min read
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Proxies for Obscura: one flag, and three things it does not set
Obscura takes a proxy in one flag and ignores HTTP_PROXY entirely. What it covers, what it drops in silence, and what you still have to align yourself.
September 20, 2026 · 7 min read
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Proxies for Patchright: the option is unchanged, the traffic is not
Patchright inherits Playwright's proxy option untouched. What changes is everything around it: request routes, the browser cache, and one leak.
September 20, 2026 · 6 min read
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Proxies for PicoClaw: two fields, and the useful one is undocumented
PicoClaw documents a proxy for installing skills. The field that routes your searches and page fetches is in the code and in the interface, but not in the docs.
September 20, 2026 · 7 min read
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