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pyfreeproxies
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Free to use http, socks4 and socks5 proxies based on free-proxies.
pip install -U pyfreeproxies
FreeProxies
from pyfreeproxies import FreeProxies
proxy = FreeProxies()
proxy.get_http_proxies() # http proxies
proxy.get_socks4_proxies() # socks4 proxies
proxy.get_socks5_proxies() # socks 5 proxies
proxy.get_combined_proxies() # http, socks4, socks5 combined.
proxy.get_random_proxies() # Select from the lists randomly. proxy.get_confirmed_working_proxies() # list of functional tested proxies
proxy.get_proxies_metadata({"country": "United States",}) # filter with proxy metadata keys.
proxy.proxies_update_available # check if there's an update to proxies.
IP Metadata
from pyfreeproxies import FreeProxies
import pyfreeproxies.utils as proxies_util
http_proxies = FreeProxies().get_socks4_proxies()
proxy_metadata = proxies_util.trace_ip(http_proxies[0])
print(proxy_metadata) # <class 'pyfreeproxies.models.ProxyMetadataModel'>
"""
status='success' country='Vietnam' countryCode='VN' region='CT' regionName='Can Tho' city='Can Tho' zip='' lat=10.0359 lon=105.7808 timezone='Asia/Ho_Chi_Minh' isp='Viettel Corporation' org='VIETEL' as_='AS7552 Viettel Group' query='171.248.211.25' response_time=None continent=None continentCode=None district=None offset=None currency=None asname=None reverse=None mobile=None proxy=None hosting=None
"""
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Free to use http, socks4 and socks5 proxies
We found that pyfreeproxies 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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