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A package to fetch and check the working HTTP,HTTPS,SOCKS4,SOCKS5 proxies from a list of proxies
Open Source Library for scraping public proxies available to be used within the project for various purposes.
This Libray fetches open available proxies and sorts them according to the currently working and removes useless working proxies . Running this script timely ensures good quality http proxies
How to Use : Before using it please install dependencies if it is not installed automatically:
import asyncio
import aiohttp
import urllib3
import socket
Once this dependencies installed go to any free proxy websites. Some examples sites are :
Go to this websites and copy Load proxies through Url or API
Now
pip install proxyaudit
from proxyaudit import run_proxy_check
proxyurl="Url got from website paste here"
run_proxy_check(url,["http", "https","socks4","socks5"])
In the allowed Protocol array you can also pass one argument like: ["http"]
http https socks4 socks5
Done a txt file will be generated with all the working proxies
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A package to fetch and check the working HTTP,HTTPS,SOCKS4,SOCKS5 proxies from a list of proxies
We found that proxyaudit 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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