proxy-agent

proxy-agent

Maps proxy protocols to http.Agent implementations

This module provides an http.Agent implementation which automatically uses proxy servers based off of the various proxy-related environment variables (HTTP_PROXY, HTTPS_PROXY and NO_PROXY among others).

Which proxy is used for each HTTP request is determined by the proxy-from-env module, so check its documentation for instructions on configuring your environment variables.

An LRU cache is used so that http.Agent instances are transparently re-used for subsequent HTTP requests to the same proxy server.

The currently implemented protocol mappings are listed in the table below:

Protocol	Proxy Agent for http requests	Proxy Agent for https requests	Example
http	http-proxy-agent	https-proxy-agent	http://proxy-server-over-tcp.com:3128
https	http-proxy-agent	https-proxy-agent	https://proxy-server-over-tls.com:3129
socks(v5)	socks-proxy-agent	socks-proxy-agent	socks://username:[e-mail]:9050 (username & password are optional)
socks5	socks-proxy-agent	socks-proxy-agent	socks5://username:[e-mail]:9050 (username & password are optional)
socks4	socks-proxy-agent	socks-proxy-agent	socks4://some-socks-proxy.com:9050
pac-*	pac-proxy-agent	pac-proxy-agent	pac+http://www.example.com/proxy.pac

Example

import * as https from 'https';
import { ProxyAgent } from 'proxy-agent';

// The correct proxy `Agent` implementation to use will be determined
// via the `http_proxy` / `https_proxy` / `no_proxy` / etc. env vars
const agent = new ProxyAgent();

// The rest works just like any other normal HTTP request
https.get('https://jsonip.com', { agent }, (res) => {
  console.log(res.statusCode, res.headers);
  res.pipe(process.stdout);
});

API

new ProxyAgent(options?: ProxyAgentOptions)

Creates an http.Agent instance which relies on the various proxy-related environment variables. An LRU cache is used, so the same http.Agent instance will be returned if identical args are passed in.

Similar packages

Other packages similar to proxy-agent

http-proxy-agent

This package provides an HTTP agent to proxy HTTP requests. It is similar to proxy-agent but is limited to HTTP protocol only, whereas proxy-agent supports multiple protocols.

https-proxy-agent

This package provides an HTTPS agent to proxy HTTPS requests. Like http-proxy-agent, it is protocol-specific and does not offer the multi-protocol support that proxy-agent does.

socks-proxy-agent

This package is designed to provide an agent that proxies through a SOCKS proxy. It is specifically tailored for SOCKS protocol, unlike proxy-agent which handles SOCKS along with other protocols.

pac-proxy-agent

This package provides a proxy agent that can use a PAC file to determine the appropriate proxy for a given URL. It is focused on PAC file support, which is just one of the features available in proxy-agent.