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.
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Proxies for PinchTab: where the setting lives when you run ten browsers
PinchTab refuses a login inside the proxy URL, refuses half a login, and refuses to launch with a broken one. Here is where the setting goes instead.
September 20, 2026 · 8 min read
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Proxies for puppeteer-extra: the stealth plugin does not hide your address
The stealth plugin has seventeen evasions and not one touches the network. The proxy routing plugin is in the same repository, and almost nobody links it.
September 20, 2026 · 7 min read
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Proxies for pydoll: the login never reaches the command line
Pydoll takes the login out of the proxy URL before Chrome starts, then answers the challenge itself. Three address shapes defeat that, and we ran them.
September 20, 2026 · 8 min read
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Proxies for ScrapeGraphAI: the loader setting, and the word broker
ScrapeGraphAI takes a proxy in loader_kwargs, with rules it enforces by assertion. One magic value swaps your address for a free public one.
September 20, 2026 · 5 min read
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Proxies for Steel Browser: write the scheme, and read the bytes
A Steel session takes a proxyUrl, and the shape its README documents is rejected. We show the address shape that works, and what the session counts.
September 20, 2026 · 7 min read
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Proxies for TradingAgents: which call is actually being refused
TradingAgents announced proxy support, and it means a custom base URL for the model. The data sources that refuse you are a separate question, source by source.
September 20, 2026 · 6 min read
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Proxies for TrendRadar: four lanes, and one that switches itself off
TrendRadar takes a proxy in four places. On a forked schedule the crawler's proxy is disabled on purpose, and the program prints that it is doing it.
September 20, 2026 · 6 min read
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Proxies for World Monitor: the block list belongs to your host
World Monitor keeps a list of seventeen sources that refuse its host. We asked ten of them from our own server and eight answered normally.
September 20, 2026 · 7 min read
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Proxies for ZeroClaw: three scopes, thirty services, and two refusals
ZeroClaw has the most complete proxy configuration we have read: three scopes, thirty named services, and two tools that fail closed rather than be routed.
September 20, 2026 · 7 min read
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Proxies for agent-browser: one flag, and three traps
Vercel's agent-browser takes a proxy in one flag and answers the login itself. Where it reads the address in 0.38.1, and which documented form cannot work.
September 19, 2026 · 7 min read
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Proxies for Camoufox: the proxy dict, geoip and one IP per browser
Camoufox matches timezone and locale to the proxy's IP with geoip=True, and gives each context its own proxy with NewContext. Which proxy lines keep it right, in 0.5.8.
September 19, 2026 · 10 min read
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Proxies for Chrome DevTools MCP: one flag, one condition
Chrome DevTools MCP takes a --proxyServer flag, and drops it silently when it attaches to a running Chrome. What the flag can carry, and what it cannot.
September 19, 2026 · 5 min read
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Proxies for CrewAI: the scrape tool refuses them on purpose
CrewAI's ScrapeWebsiteTool ignores your proxy variables and raises if you pass one. Why that is deliberate, and the two routes that still work.
September 19, 2026 · 6 min read
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Proxies for Dify: a residential proxy behind its own Squid
Dify already sends its HTTP requests through its own Squid proxy. How to put a residential proxy behind it, what that reaches, and the two moves to avoid.
September 19, 2026 · 6 min read
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Proxies for self-hosted Firecrawl: PROXY_SERVER and what it reaches
A self-hosted Firecrawl has no stealth proxies. Where PROXY_SERVER goes, which parts use it, and the checks that break it, read in v2.11.0 and main.
September 19, 2026 · 8 min read
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Proxies for google-maps-scraper: what the list really does
The open source Google Maps scraper takes a proxy list in one flag. How v1.18.0 spends it: one address per browser, a login on every line, and the traps.
September 19, 2026 · 7 min read
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Proxies for Hermes Agent: the browser, search and model calls
HTTPS_PROXY moves Hermes Agent's model calls but not web_extract. Where each proxy setting goes in release v2026.9.14, and what a residential IP changes.
September 19, 2026 · 11 min read
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Proxies for Lightpanda: the browser that takes the login
Lightpanda runs on libcurl, not Chrome, so its proxy takes a login in the address and SOCKS5 works. What the CDP proxy parameter really changes.
September 19, 2026 · 6 min read
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Proxies for n8n: the node's Proxy option, HTTP_PROXY and NO_PROXY
n8n ignores a socks5:// proxy in the HTTP Request node, and HTTP_PROXY moves every node's traffic. Which proxy settings work, read in n8n 2.39.8.
September 19, 2026 · 7 min read
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Proxies for nodriver: browser_args, create_context and the login
nodriver ignores a login in browser_args. Where a proxy with a username and password goes (create_context), and what its local forwarder does, in 0.50.3.
September 19, 2026 · 6 min read
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Proxies for Open WebUI: what HTTP_PROXY actually moves
Open WebUI reads search results, links and model APIs from your own server. Where a residential proxy goes in 0.11.3, and what has to stay off it.
September 19, 2026 · 8 min read
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Proxies for OpenClaw (Clawdbot): the browser, web_fetch and the gateway
HTTP_PROXY reaches none of the OpenClaw traffic that gets blocked. Where each proxy setting goes in version 2026.9.5, and what a residential IP changes.
September 19, 2026 · 11 min read
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Proxies for Playwright MCP: the proxy flag, the login and localhost
Playwright MCP drops a user:pass written into --proxy-server and sends localhost through the proxy. Where the proxy and its login go, read in the code.
September 19, 2026 · 8 min read
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Proxies for Scrapling: proxy=, ProxyRotator and the three fetchers
Scrapling takes a proxy per fetcher, per session or through ProxyRotator. The formats, the rotation and where the password shows up, read in 0.4.15.
September 19, 2026 · 7 min read
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