random_proxies

Python package to generate a random proxy on the fly!

Features

• Supports HTTP, HTTPS or SOCKS proxy.

Currently support SOCKS over HTTP only with version 4.

• Fetch specific country proxy by using country name or country code.
• Fetch elite / transparent / anonymous proxies respectively.
• Fetch directly from free-proxy-list.
• For better response time, fetch from an elasticsearch cache_server.
• cache_server is updated via routines described here

Example usage

  pip install random-proxies

or

  $ git clone https://github.com/2knal/random_proxies.git`
  $ cd random_proxies/ 
  $ pip install -r requirements.txt 

Open python interpreter. (Supports version 3.7+)

>>> from random_proxies import random_proxy
>>> random_proxy()
'23.101.2.247:81'

Refer more examples here

TODO

• Port to MongoDB
• Publish package version 0.0.2
• Return meta data, response structure found here
• Scrape proxies from other sources
• Add support for SOCKS version 5
• Implement REST API to allow other languages to interface with it
• Setup documentation page
• Add unit tests

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Contributing

• We are open to enhancements & bug-fixes 😊. Take a look here to get started
• Feel free to add issues and submit patches

Author

Kunal Sonawane - 2knal

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License

This project is licensed under the MIT - see the LICENSE file for details.