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Proxies for ElevenLabs: the Unusual-Activity Flag, and How Each SDK Takes a Proxy
Why ElevenLabs flags free accounts on proxies and VPNs, what its own help says to do, and how its Python and Node SDKs take a proxy, measured.
August 24, 2026 · 7 min read
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GitHub Copilot Proxy Settings: VS Code, JetBrains, Visual Studio and the CLI
Where GitHub Copilot takes a proxy in VS Code, JetBrains, Visual Studio and the CLI, the rules that hold in all four, and the test that proves a line works.
August 24, 2026 · 9 min read
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Proxies for Hugging Face: Downloads Behind a Company Proxy, the Per-IP Limits, and the Token That Lifts Them
Where a proxy goes for Hugging Face, from its docs and source: the Python library, the CLI and the Xet downloader behind a company proxy, and the per-IP limits.
August 24, 2026 · 5 min read
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Proxies for Kling AI: The API, Python, Node and the Official Skill, Tested Behind a Proxy
How the Kling AI API and the official Kling skill take a proxy, from the Kling docs and our tests of Python, Node and the skill, with SOCKS5 and NO_PROXY.
August 24, 2026 · 7 min read
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Proxies for MCP Servers: The Fetch-Heavy Ones Need Residential IPs, and Where the Proxy Goes
An MCP server that fetches the web, a scraper, a search tool, a price checker, hits the same bot walls and per-IP limits as any client, so it needs residential proxies. One that talks only to a private API does not. This covers which MCP servers need a proxy, where it goes in the server, and how to wire it in the common runtimes.
August 24, 2026 · 4 min read
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Proxies for Poe: The API, the Python Library and Coding Tools, Tested Behind a Proxy
What a Poe proxy URL is, and how the Poe API, its Python library and the OpenAI SDKs take a proxy, from the Poe docs and our tests, with SOCKS5 and limits.
August 24, 2026 · 5 min read
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Proxies With the Claude Agent SDK: Proxying the Agents You Build, Not the Model
The Claude Agent SDK is Claude Code as a library, so the agents you build with it browse the web through built-in and custom tools. This guide shows where a proxy goes: in the custom tools and subprocess code that fetch sites, and the process-level HTTP(S)_PROXY for reachability, with the honest note that the SDK's own model calls do not want one.
August 24, 2026 · 4 min read
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Free Proxies for Scrapy: What a Test of 300 Showed, and the Settings to Use
We sent the first request of a new Scrapy project through 300 free proxies from our list. 83 returned the file. The settings and middleware that follow.
August 23, 2026 · 10 min read
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Free Proxies for Selenium: What 300 Page Loads Showed, and the Setup to Use
We loaded a page and its 25 files through 300 free proxies from our list, the way Chrome does. 111 arrived whole. The setup and timeouts that follow.
August 23, 2026 · 9 min read
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Roblox API Proxy: Fix the HttpService 403 and Read the Real Rate Limits
HttpService refuses the roblox.com web API, so swapping the host clears the 403 in one edit. The per-endpoint rate limits, measured again on 16 September 2026, and the batch endpoints decide how much one address can read.
August 11, 2026 · 27 min read
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Proxies for Perplexity: The SDKs, the MCP Server and the CLI, Tested Behind a Proxy
How the Perplexity SDKs, MCP server and pplx CLI take a proxy, from the docs and our tests: which examples work, which go direct, and SOCKS5.
July 18, 2026 · 7 min read
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Proxies for ChatGPT and the OpenAI API: What Each One Takes, Tested
How ChatGPT, its apps and the OpenAI SDKs take a proxy. Measured: the Python SDK follows HTTPS_PROXY, the Node SDK does not. Plus the country rules.
July 17, 2026 · 8 min read
Free proxies
Free Proxies for Web Scraping: What 5,000 Requests Showed, and How to Use Them
We sent 20 requests in a row through each of 250 free proxies from our list. 13 answered all 20. What that means for a scraper, and how to use them.
July 11, 2026 · 8 min read
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Proxies for Scrapy: how a spider takes a proxy, and what Scrapy does with it
How Scrapy takes a proxy, from the Scrapy 2.19 documentation: the meta key and the environment variables, credentials in the proxy URL, middleware order, what a retry does with the proxy, SOCKS5, and the settings that set the pace.
July 11, 2026 · 5 min read
Guide
How to Fix cURL Proxy Errors (7, 56, and 60)
Three cURL exit codes cover almost every proxy failure: 7, 56 and 60. What each one means, why proxies trigger it, the real fix, and the failure that exits 0.
July 3, 2026 · 13 min read
Guide
How to Use Proxies With cURL: Flags, Gotchas and Copy-Paste Recipes
Every way to route curl through a proxy: -x syntax, SOCKS5 against socks5h, proxy auth, environment rules, and what a stub proxy recorded for each of them.
July 2, 2026 · 11 min read
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Proxies for Web Scraping: The Complete, No-Nonsense Guide
How to choose and use proxies for web scraping: proxy types ranked by job, rotation strategy, avoiding blocks, request hygiene, and code you can run today.
July 2, 2026 · 9 min read
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