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free-proxy-verifyer
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free_proxy_verifyer is a Python library that allows you to verify whether a proxy is working or not. It checks the functionality of a given proxy by making requests to various proxy detection servers. This library is useful for anyone who needs to ensure the reliability of proxy for their applications.
You can install free_proxy_verifyer via pip:
pip install free_proxy_verifyer
or
pip install git+https://github.com/mominurr/free_proxy_verifyer.git
When installing free_proxy_verifyer using pip, the necessary dependencies (requests) will be automatically installed along with the package. You don't need to separately install these dependencies.
from free_proxy_verifyer import proxyVerify
# Create an instance of proxyVerify
checker = proxyVerify()
# Define the proxy address to be verified
proxy = "37.187.17.89:3128"
# Verify the proxy
result = checker.verify_proxy(proxy=proxy)
# Print the result
print(result) # True if the proxy is working, else False
ProxyVerify works by randomly selecting proxy detection services from a predefined list and making requests through the provided proxy. If a response is received within the specified timeout and the status code is 200, it considers the proxy to be working.
Contributions are welcome! If you have any ideas, suggestions, or improvements, feel free to open an issue or create a pull request on GitHub.
This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.
FAQs
A simple package to verify http and https working proxies.
We found that free-proxy-verifyer 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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