Guides
Short how-tos: connect, pick a country, hold an address, and work out what broke.
- Which proxies to chooseThe four lines differ not in quality but in where the address comes from and what a gigabyte costs. Here is where each one fits.
- First connectionWhat the connection string is made of, and how to check the proxy works.
- Choosing a countryGetting an address in the country you need without changing password or gateway.
- Keeping one IPWhen the address has to hold still, and the port that makes it.
- Browsers and antidetectWhat to type into Dolphin, AdsPower, Octo and an ordinary browser.
- curl, Python and NodeReady-made examples for scripts.
- Proxies in Dolphin AntyFour fields in the proxy card and one suffix on the login, so every profile gets its own country.
- Proxies in ScrapyHttpProxyMiddleware is enabled by default — putting the connection string in the request meta is all it takes.
- Proxies in PlaywrightThe proxy is set at browser launch or per context, and the credentials are separate fields rather than part of the address.
- When it does not workThe four failures that come up most often.