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fwz-pt
Advanced tools
Fast, multi-threaded proxy testing from the command line.
Recommended:
pipx install fwz-pt
Alternative (virtual environment):
python -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate # Windows: venv\Scripts\activate
pip install fwz-pt
From source:
git clone https://github.com/fawaz7/Proxy-tester.git
cd Proxy-tester
pip install -r requirements.txt
python src/main.py --help
Basic syntax:
fwz_pt --http proxies.txt
fwz_pt --socks --geo --speed-test proxies.txt -o results.csv
Options:
--http or --socks - Proxy type (required)--geo - Enable geo-location lookup--speed-test - Run download speed test-o <file> - Save results (.txt or .csv)--verbose - Debug outputProxy formats:
host:port:user:passuser:pass@host:portFeel free to contribute to the repository.
FAQs
A multi-threaded proxy testing tool for HTTP/SOCKS5 proxies
We found that fwz-pt 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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