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Free proxies that actually work: 700+ sources, every hit verified (honeypots, injected scripts, TLS), a live list every hour, a rotating proxy server and an MCP server for AI agents.
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proxy-scraper is an open-source ai agents skill for AI coding assistants such as Claude Code, Codex CLI, and ChatGPT, built by maximilianfeix. Free proxies that actually work: 700+ sources, every hit verified (honeypots, injected scripts, TLS), a live list every hour, a rotating proxy server and an MCP server for AI agents. It has 50 GitHub stars.
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Clone the repository with "git clone https://github.com/maximilianfeix/proxy-scraper" and add it to your Claude Code skills directory (see the Installation section above).
proxy-scraper is primarily written in Python. It is open-source under maximilianfeix on GitHub, so you can review or fork the full source.
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Most free proxy lists are 95 % dead, and a good part of the rest are honeypots or proxies that inject scripts into your pages. proxy-scraper collects public HTTP, SOCKS4 and SOCKS5 proxies from 700+ sources and keeps only the ones that pass every check. It learns with every run which sources are worth it, and it can turn the result into a single rotating proxy.
In numbers: in one day it ran 3.6 million checks on free proxies – 1.1 % passed, and more than half of the ones that answered failed a second request. What's actually out there →
Used by: the hourly list is a built-in source of monosans/proxy-scraper-checker and gfpcom/free-proxy-list.
Try it – no install, about five seconds:
uvx proxy-scraper-cli --pick 5 --types socks5 # 5 checked proxies
# or just the plain list
curl -s https://maximilianfeix.github.io/proxy-scraper/socks5.txt | head
uvx comes with uv; pipx run proxy-scraper-cli --pick 5 does the same.
Only want proxies? The lists, rebuilt every hour, best first: all.txt · http.txt · socks4.txt · socks5.txt · proxies.json · by country · more formats
Who runs free proxies – and is it safe to use them? Mostly nobody on purpose: misconfigured servers with an open port, a few deliberately open ones, infected machines, and traps that log or rewrite your traffic. That's why every proxy here has to pass five checks, and why they're for public data and testing – never for logins, payments or anything personal. More on where they come from →
With pipx (recommended – gives you a proxy-scraper command in its own environment):
pipx install proxy-scraper-cli
proxy-scraper
The package is called proxy-scraper-cli on PyPI (the plain name is taken), the command is proxy-scraper.
With Homebrew on macOS and Linux:
brew install maximilianfeix/tap/proxy-scraper
The formula follows each release within about a day.
# Docker – learned state and results stay in two folders next to you
mkdir -p proxy-data results
docker run --rm --user "$(id -u):$(id -g)" -v "$PWD/proxy-data:/data" -v "$PWD/results:/work/results" \
ghcr.io/maximilianfeix/proxy-scraper --want 50 --https-only
# pip into the current environment
pip install proxy-scraper-cli
# optional: faster event loop on macOS/Linux
pipx install "proxy-scraper-cli[fast]"
# the latest main instead of the latest release
pipx install git+https://github.com/maximilianfeix/proxy-scraper.git
# no install at all
git clone https://github.com/maximilianfeix/proxy-scraper.git
cd proxy-scraper
pip install -r requirements.txt
python3 proxy_scraper.py
Every release also ships a wheel you can install with pip install <file>.whl, and a multi-arch image (amd64/arm64) on ghcr.io. In the container the wizard never shows up, it runs straight away. For the proxy server use --serve --serve-host 0.0.0.0 --serve-open with -p 127.0.0.1:8899:8899, so the port is only open on your own machine – or set -e PROXY_SCRAPER_SERVE_PASSWORD=… instead of --serve-open.
Tab completion for bash, zsh, fish and PowerShell:
eval "$(proxy-scraper --completion zsh)" # in ~/.zshrc (after compinit), same for bash in ~/.bashrc
proxy-scraper --completion fish > ~/.config/fish/completions/proxy-scraper.fish
proxy-scraper --completion powershell | Out-String | Invoke-Expression # in $PROFILE
Installed, the learned state lives in your user data folder (~/Library/Application Support/proxy-scraper, %LOCALAPPDATA%\proxy-scraper or ~/.local/share/proxy-scraper; override with PROXY_SCRAPER_HOME) and results go to ./results. Run from a clone, both stay inside the project. After the second run that finds proxies it asks once for a GitHub star; PROXY_SCRAPER_NO_STAR_HINT=1 turns that off (it never shows in CI).
Started without arguments, a wizard asks what you are looking for:
| Preset | What it does |
|---|---|
| Find everything | all protocols, maximum yield |
| Browsing & web | HTTP + SOCKS5, HTTPS-capable, at least anonymous, under 3 s |
| Maximum anonymity | elite SOCKS5 with HTTPS only |
| Fast & stable | proxies under 1 s only |
| A few right now | stops after 25 hits |
| Recheck the last hits | no collecting, takes seconds |
| Proxy server right away | recheck the last hits, then serve them on :8899 |
| Same as last time | your previous choice |
| Custom … | protocols, countries, anonymity, HTTPS, target site, latency, amount, check mode |
Keys: ↑↓ select · Space toggle · 1–9 jump · Enter next · Esc back · q quit. In scripts and cron jobs the wizard never shows up – pass options or -y.
Don't want to scan yourself? Every hour GitHub Actions runs the tool and publishes the hits to the proxy-list branch – every entry worked in the last run, best first: fast ones that are likely to still be up come on top.
Just want the lists? They also live in a repository of their own, maximilianfeix/free-proxy-list – one list per protocol, per country and per site, updated every hour, with the numbers of the last run on the front page. Watch or star it to keep it at hand. Other tools pull it too: [monos