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Step-by-step proxy and web-scraping guides from HProxy: setup walkthroughs, config and code you can copy, each one written and tested by hand.

147 articles

How to Use Proxies With Colly (Go)

How to use proxies with Colly in Go: SetProxy for one proxy, the RoundRobinProxySwitcher for rotation, SOCKS, authentication, timeouts and retries, and verifying the exit IP.

August 23, 2026 · 4 min read

How to Use Proxies With LangChain

How to use proxies with LangChain: route WebBaseLoader, document loaders and scraping tools through a proxy, and why you proxy the data side, not the model call.

August 23, 2026 · 6 min read

How to Use Proxies With Node fetch (undici ProxyAgent)

Native fetch in Node has no proxy option. How to route it through a proxy with undici's ProxyAgent and setGlobalDispatcher, per-request dispatchers, auth, SOCKS, and verifying the exit.

August 23, 2026 · 4 min read

How to Use Proxies With OkHttp (Java, Kotlin, Android)

How to route OkHttp through a proxy: the proxy() builder method, proxyAuthenticator for auth, SOCKS, a ProxySelector for rotation, per-client design, timeouts, and verifying the exit.

August 23, 2026 · 4 min read

How to Use Proxies With Postman

How to set a proxy in Postman: the custom proxy configuration, system proxy, authenticated proxies, the desktop agent, SOCKS, Newman on the CLI, and verifying the exit IP.

August 23, 2026 · 5 min read

How to Use Proxies With Puppeteer

How to use proxies with Puppeteer: the proxy-server launch arg, authenticated proxies with page.authenticate and proxy-chain, per-context proxies, and rotating a pool.

August 23, 2026 · 5 min read

How to Use Proxies With wget

How to use a proxy with wget: the http_proxy and https_proxy environment variables, the -e flag, proxy auth, no_proxy, why wget has no SOCKS, and verifying the exit IP.

August 23, 2026 · 4 min read

LLM API Rate Limits and Proxies: Why Changing Your IP Does Nothing

Developers hitting 429s on an LLM API often reach for a rotating proxy pool. The quota follows the key in the header, not the address it came from. What actually fixes it, and where proxies do belong in an AI stack.

August 23, 2026 · 9 min read

No-KYC Residential Proxies: Who Lets You Buy Without an ID Check

Some proxy providers want a passport scan or a sales call before your first gigabyte. Which ones ask, why they ask, what no-KYC actually means, and what it does not.

August 23, 2026 · 10 min read

Pay-As-You-Go Proxies: Why a Balance That Never Expires Beats a Plan

Monthly proxy plans bill for traffic you may never send, and the leftover gigabytes vanish at renewal. The arithmetic on what expiry really costs, and when a plan still wins.

August 23, 2026 · 11 min read

Proxies for Antidetect Browsers: The IP Has to Agree With the Fingerprint

An antidetect browser gives each profile its own fingerprint. If the IP behind it contradicts that fingerprint, the pair is easier to catch than either half alone. What to buy, and why rotation breaks it.

August 23, 2026 · 10 min read

Choosing Proxies by ASN and ISP, Not Just by Country

Two IPs in the same country can behave nothing alike, because the target looks up the network operator first. When ASN targeting is the actual requirement, and how to check what you have.

August 23, 2026 · 9 min read

requests vs httpx vs aiohttp: Proxies Compared

How the three Python HTTP clients handle proxies: the config each one uses, SOCKS support, sync versus async, connection reuse, and which to pick for a scraper.

August 23, 2026 · 5 min read

Do Your Proxies Support WebSockets? How to Test It in Two Minutes

WebSockets fail through proxies in three specific ways, and provider docs almost never mention it. The two-minute test, how to read the failure, and why rotation is the usual culprit.

August 23, 2026 · 9 min read

Roblox API Proxy: Fix the HttpService 403 and Read the Real Rate Limits

HttpService refuses every roblox.com domain, so swapping the host to roproxy.com clears the 403 in one edit. The measured per-endpoint rate limits and batch ceilings, which decide whether the project needs one address or fifty.

August 11, 2026 · 23 min read

How to Read a Proxy Pricing Page

The cheapest number on a proxy pricing page is usually attached to a different product. Verified examples from Infatica, Rayobyte, IPBurger, Evomi and DataImpulse, and the checklist that catches it.

August 10, 2026 · 10 min read

How the _abck cookie works, measured in a real browser

What the Akamai _abck cookie is, what its value contains, how the sensor rewrites it, and what a proxy changes. Measured in Chrome on 2 September 2026.

August 6, 2026 · 15 min read

How to Configure Proxies for an Anti-Bot Solver API

Solver APIs generate a payload for one specific exit IP, so the proxy stops being a loose choice and becomes a parameter. Session length, geo matching, concurrency, and how to read your own exit address correctly.

August 6, 2026 · 9 min read

How to Use a Proxy: Every Setup, Every Wall, Every Fix

Fifty-six setup guides in one map: browsers, every major language, the twelve anti-bot walls by name, the CAPTCHA families, and the error codes that follow.

August 4, 2026 · 8 min read

How to Use Proxies With Playwright (Chromium, Firefox, WebKit)

How to use proxies with Playwright: per-context proxy config, the credentials-in-URL trap, rotation with sticky sessions, and verifying your real exit IP.

July 21, 2026 · 10 min read

How to Use Proxies With Scrapy (Rotating, Retries, Auth)

How to use proxies with Scrapy: HttpProxyMiddleware, per-request meta proxy, a rotating-proxy middleware with retries, and the proxy auth stale-header trap.

July 21, 2026 · 11 min read

How to Bypass AWS WAF Bot Control With Residential Proxies

AWS WAF Bot Control scores your IP reputation, your TLS (JA3) fingerprint, a JavaScript token that interrogates your browser, and your session behavior. Residential proxies fix the reputation part. The other three signals you bring yourself.

July 18, 2026 · 8 min read

How to Bypass Fastly Bot Management (Next-Gen WAF) With Residential Proxies

Fastly's Next-Gen WAF, formerly Signal Sciences, scores your IP and NLX reputation, your request signals and rate, and a client-side challenge that fingerprints headless browsers. What residential proxies fix, and what you have to bring yourself.

July 18, 2026 · 8 min read

How to Bypass reCAPTCHA v3 When Scraping (There Is No Puzzle to Solve)

reCAPTCHA v3 never shows a puzzle. It scores every request from 0.0 to 1.0 and the site acts on a threshold you cannot see. Bypassing it means raising the score, not solving anything.

July 18, 2026 · 8 min read

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Proxies that don't die mid-job

Residential, ISP, datacenter and mobile, verified by the same engine that runs tens of millions of checks. They read as a real device and hold up under load. Pay as you go, and your balance never expires. $0.44/GB is the 2,000 GB+ rate; a single gigabyte is $0.50/GB, with no minimum order.

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