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Proxies for Cohere: Why the Python SDK Ignores HTTPS_PROXY, and Where a Proxy Goes Instead

Where a proxy goes for Cohere, from its SDK source and docs: why HTTPS_PROXY stopped working in the Python SDK, the fix, the TypeScript SDK and base URLs.

September 28, 2026 · 5 min read

Proxy Scraper: What One Collects, and How Little of It Works

A proxy scraper collects proxy addresses from public pages and tests them. What ours found since May 2026, why most of it fails, and a safe script to run one.

September 27, 2026 · 11 min read

Proxies for Aider: installing the browser turns your proxy off

Aider's web command has two implementations. One reads your proxy variables, the other passes nothing, and an optional install decides which you get.

September 22, 2026 · 5 min read

Proxies for AutoGPT: one wrapper decides, and it says no

Ninety-eight files in the AutoGPT platform call one request wrapper. It pins every connection to a validated address, which is exactly what a proxy moves.

September 22, 2026 · 7 min read

Proxies for OpenHands: you are reading the wrong repository

The repo with 88,810 stars is now the OpenHands interface. The agent and its browser tool live in a separate SDK, and that tool has no proxy option.

September 22, 2026 · 6 min read

Proxies for OpenManus: the setting is there, the reader is gone

OpenManus still ships a browser proxy block in its config. The tool that read it was deleted, and the browser now runs where your variables cannot reach.

September 22, 2026 · 6 min read

Proxies for Agent-Reach: the setting is in the backend, not the tool

Agent-Reach has no proxy setting because it never makes the request. Its own readme says a server needs a residential line and a laptop does not.

September 20, 2026 · 6 min read

Proxies for AutoGen: no proxy option, one parameter that saves it

AutoGen's web surfer launches its browser with two options and neither is a proxy. The constructor takes a browser context, and that is where the address goes.

September 20, 2026 · 5 min read

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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