Free proxies that actually work: verified HTTP/SOCKS proxies, and pages fetched through them
Quick Install
Automated & IDE SetupCopy the AI prompt to install this server into Claude Code, Cursor, or another agent — or use 1-click editor setup below.
One-click editor setup isn’t available for this listing yet — we don’t have a confirmed install command, and we’d rather show nothing than point your editor at the wrong package or host. Follow the project’s own setup instructions, linked above.
Manual Client & Custom JSON ConfigExpand JSON ▾
No confirmed setup config for this listing yet. We only publish a config block when the install details come from the project itself — its README, its docs, or a verified owner. We haven’t found those for proxy-scraper, and we’d rather show nothing than a guess you’d paste into your client. Follow the project’s own setup instructions for the current steps.
Documentation Overview
Most free proxy lists are 95 % dead, and a good part of the rest are honeypots or proxies that inject scripts into your pages. proxy-scraper collects public HTTP, SOCKS4 and SOCKS5 proxies from 700+ sources and keeps only the ones that pass every check. It learns with every run which sources are worth it, and it can turn the result into a single rotating proxy.
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Install
With pipx (recommended – gives you a proxy-scraper command in its own environment):
The package is called proxy-scraper-cli on PyPI (the plain name is taken), the command is proxy-scraper.
Other ways: Docker, pip, a faster event loop, or straight from the repo
Every release also ships a wheel you can install with pip install <file>.whl, and a multi-arch image (amd64/arm64) on ghcr.io. In the container the wizard never shows up, it runs straight away. For the proxy server use --serve --serve-host 0.0.0.0 with -p 127.0.0.1:8899:8899, so the port is only open on your own machine.
Tab completion for bash, zsh, fish and PowerShell:
Installed, the learned state lives in your user data folder (~/Library/Application Support/proxy-scraper, %LOCALAPPDATA%\proxy-scraper or ~/.local/share/proxy-scraper; override with PROXY_SCRAPER_HOME) and results go to ./results. Run from a clone, both stay inside the project.
Started without arguments, a wizard asks what you are looking for:
| Preset | What it does |
|---|---|
| Find everything | all protocols, maximum yield |
| Browsing & web | HTTP + SOCKS5, HTTPS-capable, at least anonymous, under 3 s |
| Maximum anonymity | elite SOCKS5 with HTTPS only |
| Fast & stable | proxies under 1 s only |
| A few right now | stops after 25 hits |
| Recheck the last hits | no collecting, takes seconds |
| Proxy server right away | recheck the last hits, then serve them on :8899 |
| Same as last time | your previous choice |
| Custom … | protocols, countries, anonymity, HTTPS, target site, latency, amount, check mode |
Keys: ↑↓ select · Space toggle · 1–9 jump · Enter next · Esc back · q quit. In scripts and cron jobs the wizard never shows up – pass options or -y.
Live proxy list
Don't want to scan yourself? Every hour GitHub Actions runs the tool and publishes the hits to the proxy-list branch – every entry worked in the last run, fastest first.
→ Browse it on the website – search, filter by type, country, HTTPS, provider and latency, see how long each proxy has been up and how often it was on the list this week, copy or download exactly the proxies you need.
Every protocol and country also has its own page with a plain download, e.g. SOCKS5 or Germany (country/de/proxies.txt).
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