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Proxies for Runway: The API SDKs, the Runway MCP and the Apps Behind a Proxy, and What the Terms Say
Where a proxy goes for Runway, from its SDK code and docs: the Python and Node SDKs, the Runway MCP in Claude, Cursor and ChatGPT, the apps, and the limits.
September 28, 2026 · 6 min read
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Proxies for Sora: OpenAI Closed Sora in Every Country, What Is Left of It, and Where a Proxy Still Fits
Sora closed on April 26, 2026, and its API on September 24, so no proxy or VPN reaches it. Exports, credits, Sora 2 on Azure, and where a proxy fits.
September 28, 2026 · 6 min read
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Proxies for Stable Diffusion: Model Downloads Behind a Proxy in AUTOMATIC1111, ComfyUI and Hugging Face, the Stability API and the License
Where a proxy goes for Stable Diffusion, from the source: AUTOMATIC1111 downloads, ComfyUI, gated SD 3.5 files on Hugging Face, the API limit, the license.
September 28, 2026 · 5 min read
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Proxies for Udio: What the Terms Say, Why Downloads Stopped, and Where a Proxy Goes
The Udio terms name no VPN or proxy, but ban downloads, bots and extra free accounts. Captchas, credits, the missing API, and where a proxy goes for Udio.
September 28, 2026 · 5 min read
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Proxies for Writesonic: The GEO API, the MCP Server in Claude, ChatGPT and Claude Code, and Which Calls a Proxy Reaches
Where a proxy goes for Writesonic, from its docs: the web app, the GEO API and its key header, and the MCP server in Claude, ChatGPT and Claude Code.
September 28, 2026 · 6 min read
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Proxies for You.com: The Search APIs, the SDKs and the MCP Server Behind a Proxy, in Claude Code, Codex and Cursor
Where a proxy goes for You.com, from its docs and package code: the two API hosts, the Python and TypeScript SDKs, the MCP server, and the agent plugins.
September 28, 2026 · 6 min read
Guide
Proxy Helper for Chrome: Setup, the Proxy Login, and Why SOCKS5 Needs an Allowlist
Proxy Helper gives Chrome its own proxy. The fields, the HTTP login, why SOCKS5 gets no login in Chrome, the bypass list, profiles, and Firefox.
September 28, 2026 · 7 min read
Explainer
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
Explainer
Proxy Server Software: The Free Programs, Their Defaults, and the Catch
Proxy server software turns a computer into a proxy. The free programs for Windows and Linux, their default ports, and why a server of your own adds no new IP.
September 27, 2026 · 8 min read
Guide
SSH SOCKS Proxy: Turn Any SSH Login Into a SOCKS5 Proxy with ssh -D
One command turns a server you can SSH into into a SOCKS5 proxy. Windows and PuTTY steps, DNS through the tunnel, and the limits we measured in a real test.
September 27, 2026 · 9 min read
Free proxies
Free Mobile Proxy: What Exists, What We Measured, and the Catch
Free mobile proxies barely exist on public lists: of 822,586 free proxies we tracked, 91 were mobile and one worked. The free route that does work, and the catches.
September 26, 2026 · 9 min read
Free proxies
Free Rotating Proxies: What Exists, and How to Rotate a Free List
No free rotating proxy gateway holds up. What exists: trials, free quotas, Tor, and rotating a free list yourself, with tested Python code and measured decay.
September 26, 2026 · 8 min read
Guide
How to Choose an Enterprise Proxy Provider: Eight Checks and the Proof Behind Each
How to choose an enterprise proxy provider: the workload to write down, the document behind each claim, what an SLA pays, a test on your own targets, and the terms to compare.
September 26, 2026 · 16 min read
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Proxies for Brand Protection: What Works and What Fails
How brand teams use proxies to find counterfeits, rogue sellers, cloaked ads and lookalike domains as shoppers see them, which proxy fits each check, and what fails.
September 26, 2026 · 9 min read
Explainer
Proxy SLA: What an Uptime Guarantee Covers, and What It Pays
What a proxy SLA promises and pays: how downtime is defined, the window, the credit and its cap, the claim deadline, and what it never covers. Five real SLAs side by side.
September 26, 2026 · 7 min read
Explainer
Socks5 Configurator: How It Works, How to Set It Up, and Its Limits
Socks5 Configurator sends Chrome through one SOCKS5 proxy. How to fill in its fields, which sites its default list skips, and why no login can work.
September 26, 2026 · 8 min read
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Proxies for Activepieces: the filter refuses your proxy first
Activepieces has no proxy setting, and its server rejects private addresses on purpose. One variable allows yours, and the error message names it.
September 22, 2026 · 5 min read
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Proxies for Agent Zero: four fields, one that cannot work
Agent Zero has a real browser proxy setting: server, bypass, username, password. One combination it invites you to use cannot authenticate at all.
September 22, 2026 · 6 min read
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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
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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
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Proxies for Huginn: the general setting beats the specific one
Huginn has an instance proxy, an opt-in proxy and a per-agent proxy. The instance one wins, and it stops an agent even saving its own.
September 22, 2026 · 6 min read
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Proxies for Kilo Code: the editor knows, the agent does not
VS Code keeps its proxy setting to itself, so spawned processes go direct. Kilo Code forwards it, and one editor setting blanks your shell proxy on purpose.
September 22, 2026 · 6 min read
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Proxies for LobeChat: three things called proxy, two that route
In LobeChat a variable named PROXY_URL is an API base URL. The server reads the standard variables, and the desktop app has a real proxy feature.
September 22, 2026 · 6 min read
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Proxies for Open Interpreter: yours is the second hop
Open Interpreter runs its own policy proxy before anything leaves. One setting makes your proxy the upstream, and it accepts http addresses only.
September 22, 2026 · 6 min read
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