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Socks proxy for Node builtin (also undici) fetch and WebSocket.
npm install fetch-socks
Fetch http://example.com through socks5://[::1]:1080.
import { socksDispatcher } from "fetch-socks";
const dispatcher = socksDispatcher({
type: 5,
host: "::1",
port: 1080,
//userId: "username",
//password: "password",
});
const response = await fetch("https://example.com", { dispatcher });
console.log(response.status);
console.log(await response.text());
Set the proxy globally.
import { socksDispatcher } from "fetch-socks";
const dispatcher = socksDispatcher({ /* ... */});
// For undici <= 7
global[Symbol.for("undici.globalDispatcher.1")] = dispatcher;
// For undici >= 8
global[Symbol.for("undici.globalDispatcher.2")] = dispatcher;
TypeScript example, fetch through proxy chain with two SOCKS proxies.
import { fetch } from "undici";
import { socksDispatcher, SocksProxies } from "fetch-socks";
const proxyConfig: SocksProxies = [{
type: 5,
host: "::1",
port: 1080,
}, {
type: 5,
host: "127.0.0.1",
port: 1081,
}];
const dispatcher = socksDispatcher(proxyConfig, {
connect: {
// set some TLS options
rejectUnauthorized: false,
},
});
const response = await fetch("https://example.com", { dispatcher });
create a socks connection over HTTP tunnel with socksConnector.
import { Client, Agent } from "undici";
import { socksConnector } from "fetch-socks";
const socksConnect = socksConnector({
type: 5,
host: "::1",
port: 1080,
});
async function connect(options, callback) {
// First establish a connection to the HTTP proxy server (localhost:80).
const client = new Client("http://localhost:80");
const { socket, statusCode } = await client.connect({
// Tell the server to connect to the next ([::1]:1080)
path: "[::1]:1080",
});
if (statusCode !== 200) {
callback(new Error("Proxy response !== 200 when HTTP Tunneling"));
} else {
// Perform socks handshake on the connection.
socksConnect({ ...options, httpSocket: socket }, callback);
}
}
const dispatcher = new Agent({ connect });
const response = await fetch("https://example.com", { dispatcher });
It also can proxy WebSocket:
import { socksDispatcher } from "fetch-socks";
const dispatcher = socksDispatcher({ /* ... */});
const ws = new WebSocket(`ws://example.com`, { dispatcher });
socksConnector(proxies, connectOptions?)Create an Undici connector which establish the connection through socks proxies.
proxies The proxy server to use or the list of proxy servers to chain. If you pass an empty array it will connect directly.connectOptions (optional) The options used to perform directly connect or TLS upgrade, see heresocksDispatcher(proxies, options?)Create a Undici Agent with socks connector.
proxies Same as socksConnector's.options (optional) Agent options. The connect property will be used to create socks connector.import { socksConnector, socksDispatcher } from "fetch-socks";
import { Agent } from "undici";
const proxy = { type: 5, host: "::1", port: 1080 };
const connect = { /* ... */ };
const agentOptions = { /* ... */ };
socksDispatcher(proxy, { ...agentOptions, connect });
// Is equivalent to
new Agent({ ...agentOptions, connect: socksConnector(proxy, connect) });
FAQs
Socks proxy for Node builtin `fetch`
The npm package fetch-socks receives a total of 44,586 weekly downloads. As such, fetch-socks popularity was classified as popular.
We found that fetch-socks demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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