proxy-scraper-cli 1.26.0__tar.gz → 1.28.0__tar.gz

{proxy_scraper_cli-1.26.0 → proxy_scraper_cli-1.28.0}/PKG-INFO

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 Metadata-Version: 2.4
 Name: proxy-scraper-cli
-Version: 1.26.0
+Version: 1.28.0
 Summary: Finds free HTTP, SOCKS4 and SOCKS5 proxies that actually work: 700+ sources, real checks, honeypot filtering and a rotating local proxy server.
 Author: Maximilian Feix
 License-Expression: MIT
@@ -39,15 +39,15 @@ Requires-Dist: pytest; extra == "dev"
 Requires-Dist: hypothesis; extra == "dev"
 Requires-Dist: pyyaml; extra == "dev"
 Requires-Dist: markdown-it-py; extra == "dev"
-Requires-Dist: ruff==0.16.9; extra == "dev"
+Requires-Dist: ruff==0.16.10; extra == "dev"
 Dynamic: license-file
 
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-  <source media="(prefers-color-scheme: dark)" srcset="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/maximilianfeix/proxy-scraper/v1.26.0/docs/banner-dark.svg">
-  <source media="(prefers-color-scheme: light)" srcset="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/maximilianfeix/proxy-scraper/v1.26.0/docs/banner-light.svg">
-  <img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/maximilianfeix/proxy-scraper/v1.26.0/docs/banner-dark.svg" alt="proxy-scraper – free proxies that actually work" width="100%">
+  <source media="(prefers-color-scheme: dark)" srcset="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/maximilianfeix/proxy-scraper/v1.28.0/docs/banner-dark.svg">
+  <source media="(prefers-color-scheme: light)" srcset="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/maximilianfeix/proxy-scraper/v1.28.0/docs/banner-light.svg">
+  <img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/maximilianfeix/proxy-scraper/v1.28.0/docs/banner-dark.svg" alt="proxy-scraper – free proxies that actually work" width="100%">
 </picture>
 
 [![tests](https://github.com/maximilianfeix/proxy-scraper/actions/workflows/tests.yml/badge.svg)](https://github.com/maximilianfeix/proxy-scraper/actions/workflows/tests.yml)
@@ -55,18 +55,18 @@ Dynamic: license-file
 [![Live proxies](https://img.shields.io/endpoint?url=https%3A%2F%2Fraw.githubusercontent.com%2Fmaximilianfeix%2Fproxy-scraper%2Fproxy-list%2Fbadges%2Ftotal.json&style=flat-square&labelColor=121113)](#live-list)
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 [![Downloads](https://img.shields.io/pepy/dt/proxy-scraper-cli?style=flat-square&color=D4F77A&labelColor=121113&label=downloads)](https://pepy.tech/projects/proxy-scraper-cli)
-[![Python](https://img.shields.io/badge/python-3.9–3.14-D4F77A?style=flat-square&labelColor=121113)](https://github.com/maximilianfeix/proxy-scraper/blob/v1.26.0/pyproject.toml)
+[![Python](https://img.shields.io/badge/python-3.9–3.14-D4F77A?style=flat-square&labelColor=121113)](https://github.com/maximilianfeix/proxy-scraper/blob/v1.28.0/pyproject.toml)
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+[![License](https://img.shields.io/badge/license-MIT-D4F77A?style=flat-square&labelColor=121113)](https://github.com/maximilianfeix/proxy-scraper/blob/v1.28.0/LICENSE)
 
 <a href="https://maximilianfeix.github.io/proxy-scraper/"><img src="https://img.shields.io/badge/Browse_the_live_list-D4F77A?style=for-the-badge&labelColor=121113" alt="Browse the live list"></a>
 <a href="https://github.com/maximilianfeix/free-proxy-list"><img src="https://img.shields.io/badge/Just_the_lists-121113?style=for-the-badge" alt="Just the lists: free-proxy-list"></a>
 <a href="#install"><img src="https://img.shields.io/badge/Install-121113?style=for-the-badge" alt="Install"></a>
 <a href="#from-python"><img src="https://img.shields.io/badge/Python_API-121113?style=for-the-badge" alt="Python API"></a>
 <a href="#mcp"><img src="https://img.shields.io/badge/MCP_server-121113?style=for-the-badge" alt="MCP server for AI agents"></a>
-<a href="https://github.com/maximilianfeix/proxy-scraper/tree/v1.26.0/bot/"><img src="https://img.shields.io/badge/Discord_bot-121113?style=for-the-badge" alt="Discord bot"></a>
+<a href="https://github.com/maximilianfeix/proxy-scraper/tree/v1.28.0/bot/"><img src="https://img.shields.io/badge/Discord_bot-121113?style=for-the-badge" alt="Discord bot"></a>
 
-**English** · [简体中文](https://github.com/maximilianfeix/proxy-scraper/blob/v1.26.0/README.zh-CN.md)
+**English** · [简体中文](https://github.com/maximilianfeix/proxy-scraper/blob/v1.28.0/README.zh-CN.md) · [Español](https://github.com/maximilianfeix/proxy-scraper/blob/v1.28.0/README.es.md) · [Deutsch](https://github.com/maximilianfeix/proxy-scraper/blob/v1.28.0/README.de.md) · [Русский](https://github.com/maximilianfeix/proxy-scraper/blob/v1.28.0/README.ru.md) · [Português (Brasil)](https://github.com/maximilianfeix/proxy-scraper/blob/v1.28.0/README.pt-BR.md) · [Français](https://github.com/maximilianfeix/proxy-scraper/blob/v1.28.0/README.fr.md)
 
 [Install](#install) · [Live list](#live-list) · [For AI agents](#mcp) · [Proxy server](#proxy-server) · [How it works](#how-it-works) · [Recipes](#recipes) · [Options](#options) · [FAQ](#faq)
 
@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ Dynamic: license-file
 
 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 checked 3.6 million free proxies – 1.1 % worked, and more than half of the ones that answered failed a second request. [What's actually out there →](https://github.com/maximilianfeix/proxy-scraper/blob/v1.26.0/docs/free-proxies-in-numbers.md)
+**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 →](https://github.com/maximilianfeix/proxy-scraper/blob/v1.28.0/docs/free-proxies-in-numbers.md)
 
 **Used by:** the hourly list is a built-in source of [monosans/proxy-scraper-checker](https://github.com/monosans/proxy-scraper-checker) and [gfpcom/free-proxy-list](https://github.com/gfpcom/free-proxy-list).
 
@@ -91,8 +91,10 @@ curl -s https://maximilianfeix.github.io/proxy-scraper/socks5.txt | head
 
 `uvx` comes with [uv](https://docs.astral.sh/uv/); `pipx run proxy-scraper-cli --pick 5` does the same.
 
+**Only want proxies?** The lists, rebuilt every hour, best first: [all.txt](https://maximilianfeix.github.io/proxy-scraper/all.txt) · [http.txt](https://maximilianfeix.github.io/proxy-scraper/http.txt) · [socks4.txt](https://maximilianfeix.github.io/proxy-scraper/socks4.txt) · [socks5.txt](https://maximilianfeix.github.io/proxy-scraper/socks5.txt) · [proxies.json](https://maximilianfeix.github.io/proxy-scraper/proxies.json) · [by country](https://maximilianfeix.github.io/proxy-scraper/) · [more formats](#live-list)
+
 <div align="center">
-<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/maximilianfeix/proxy-scraper/v1.26.0/docs/demo.svg" alt="Animated demo: the live dashboard during a check, the report, the setup wizard and collecting" width="880">
+<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/maximilianfeix/proxy-scraper/v1.28.0/docs/demo.svg" alt="Animated demo: the live dashboard during a check, the report, the setup wizard and collecting" width="880">
 </div>
 
 > **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](#how-it-works), and why they're for public data and testing – never for logins, payments or anything personal. [More on where they come from →](#who-runs-free-proxies)
@@ -181,7 +183,7 @@ Installed, the learned state lives in your user data folder (`~/Library/Applicat
 Started without arguments, a wizard asks what you are looking for:
 
 <div align="center">
-<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/maximilianfeix/proxy-scraper/v1.26.0/docs/wizard.svg" alt="Setup wizard" width="760">
+<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/maximilianfeix/proxy-scraper/v1.28.0/docs/wizard.svg" alt="Setup wizard" width="760">
 </div>
 
 | Preset | What it does |
@@ -216,7 +218,7 @@ Don't want to scan yourself? Every hour **GitHub Actions** runs the tool and pub
 
 Every protocol and country also has its own page with a plain download, e.g. [SOCKS5](https://maximilianfeix.github.io/proxy-scraper/socks5/) or [Germany](https://maximilianfeix.github.io/proxy-scraper/country/de/) (`country/de/proxies.txt`).
 
-<div align="center"><a href="https://maximilianfeix.github.io/proxy-scraper/"><img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/maximilianfeix/proxy-scraper/v1.26.0/docs/website.png" alt="The live list website" width="860"></a></div>
+<div align="center"><a href="https://maximilianfeix.github.io/proxy-scraper/"><img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/maximilianfeix/proxy-scraper/v1.28.0/docs/website.png" alt="The live list website" width="860"></a></div>
 
 <div align="center">
 
@@ -248,6 +250,8 @@ Every protocol and country also has its own page with a plain download, e.g. [SO
 curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/maximilianfeix/proxy-scraper/proxy-list/socks5.txt | head
 ```
 
+**Where they come from:** [which free proxy lists actually work](https://maximilianfeix.github.io/proxy-scraper/sources/) ranks all 700+ sources every hour – how many proxies each one lists, how many passed every check and the share. The same as data: [sources.json](https://maximilianfeix.github.io/proxy-scraper/sources.json).
+
 **Over time:** every day the first run's `proxies.json` is kept for good as a gzipped asset of the release of that year, like [snapshots-2026](https://github.com/maximilianfeix/proxy-scraper/releases/tag/snapshots-2026) – `proxies-2026-09-28.json.gz` and so on, for anyone who wants to look at free proxies over weeks and months.
 
 Every file is also on GitHub Pages, which sits behind a CDN, isn't rate limited like raw.githubusercontent and sends CORS headers, so it works straight from the browser: `https://maximilianfeix.github.io/proxy-scraper/socks5.txt`. [jsDelivr](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/maximilianfeix/proxy-scraper@proxy-list/) works too, but can lag behind by a few hours.
@@ -262,6 +266,8 @@ Or let the tool start from it: `proxy-scraper --recheck live` downloads the list
 
 `proxy-scraper-mcp` is an [MCP](https://modelcontextprotocol.io) server: Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Cursor, VS Code, Codex and any other MCP client can ask for working proxies and load pages through them.
 
+[![proxy-scraper MCP server on Glama](https://glama.ai/mcp/servers/maximilianfeix/proxy-scraper/badges/score.svg)](https://glama.ai/mcp/servers/maximilianfeix/proxy-scraper)
+
 | Tool | What it does |
 |---|---|
 | `get_proxies` | working proxies right now, from the hourly list – filter by protocol, country, HTTPS, elite, no datacenter, not blocklisted, stable, uptime, latency, gets through to Google/Reddit/Amazon |
@@ -358,7 +364,7 @@ Started without arguments, the tool asks what you need using the arrow keys –
 <td valign="top">
 
 **Real verification**<br>
-Every hit has to fetch two independent pages – that weeds out **honeypots** that only answer check requests: over 3.6 million checks, 54 % of the proxies that answered the first request failed the second. A third request catches proxies that **tamper with content**: about one in 40 working proxies changed a known page, usually by injecting a script ([the numbers](https://github.com/maximilianfeix/proxy-scraper/blob/v1.26.0/docs/free-proxies-in-numbers.md)). Plus: HTTPS through a tunnel with **verified TLS**, anonymity level *elite / anonymous / transparent* and the country of the exit IP.
+Every hit has to fetch two independent pages – that weeds out **honeypots** that only answer check requests: over 3.6 million checks, 54 % of the proxies that answered the first request failed the second. A third request catches proxies that **tamper with content**: about one in 40 working proxies changed a known page, usually by injecting a script ([the numbers](https://github.com/maximilianfeix/proxy-scraper/blob/v1.28.0/docs/free-proxies-in-numbers.md)). Plus: HTTPS through a tunnel with **verified TLS**, anonymity level *elite / anonymous / transparent* and the country of the exit IP.
 
 </td>
 <td valign="top">
@@ -429,6 +435,8 @@ macOS, Linux and Windows, Python 3.9 to 3.14. Only two dependencies: `rich` and
 | API to fetch a proxy (proxy_pool compatible) | ❌ | ✅ [`/get`](#pool-api) |
 | Ready-made list without running anything | ✅ | ✅ [live list](#live-list) |
 
+Named and dated: [how it compares to proxifly, TheSpeedX, monosans and clarketm](https://github.com/maximilianfeix/proxy-scraper/blob/v1.28.0/docs/comparison.md).
+
 <a id="examples"></a>
 
 ## Examples
@@ -543,7 +551,7 @@ proxy-scraper --recheck --serve --serve-host 0.0.0.0
 curl -x "http://country-de:$PROXY_SCRAPER_SERVE_PASSWORD@your-server:8899" https://api.ipify.org
 ```
 
-Without a password, `--serve-host` means **anyone who reaches the port can use it**. The ready-made [`compose.yaml`](https://github.com/maximilianfeix/proxy-scraper/blob/v1.26.0/compose.yaml) starts the server in Docker from the live list, with a password, a health check and learned state in a volume: put `PROXY_PASSWORD=…` into `.env`, then `docker compose up -d`.
+Without a password, `--serve-host` means **anyone who reaches the port can use it**. The ready-made [`compose.yaml`](https://github.com/maximilianfeix/proxy-scraper/blob/v1.28.0/compose.yaml) starts the server in Docker from the live list, with a password, a health check and learned state in a volume: put `PROXY_PASSWORD=…` into `.env`, then `docker compose up -d`.
 
 | Option | What it does |
 |---|---|
@@ -564,7 +572,7 @@ In testing: 20 of 20 HTTPS requests succeeded, over 15 different exit IPs. In th
 
 **Live dashboard:** open `http://127.0.0.1:8899/__proxy-scraper/` in a browser – the pool, success rate, traffic, a live chart of requests, countries, the best proxies and the latest connections, refreshed every two seconds. It needs nothing from the internet, and `--serve-password` protects it like the rest.
 
-<div align="center"><img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/maximilianfeix/proxy-scraper/v1.26.0/docs/dashboard-live.png" alt="The live dashboard of the rotating proxy server: usable proxies, success rate, requests per second, countries and the latest connections" width="860"></div>
+<div align="center"><img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/maximilianfeix/proxy-scraper/v1.28.0/docs/dashboard-live.png" alt="The live dashboard of the rotating proxy server: usable proxies, success rate, requests per second, countries and the latest connections" width="860"></div>
 
 <a id="pool-api"></a>
 
@@ -602,16 +610,16 @@ requests.get("https://example.com", proxies={"http": proxy, "https": proxy})
 
 ## Discord and Telegram bot
 
-The live list can also come to you: [`bot/`](https://github.com/maximilianfeix/proxy-scraper/tree/v1.26.0/bot/) is a Discord bot that posts every run into a server – a summary with the fastest proxies, the full lists per protocol as files, and slash commands like `/proxies type:socks5 country:DE https:true`. It sets up its own read-only channels when you invite it, and a GitHub Action deploys it to a server as a systemd service. The same process answers on Telegram too: `/proxy de socks5` for one proxy with a curl line, `/proxies 10 us https` for a short list. Setup in [bot/README.md](https://github.com/maximilianfeix/proxy-scraper/blob/v1.26.0/bot/README.md).
+The live list can also come to you: [`bot/`](https://github.com/maximilianfeix/proxy-scraper/tree/v1.28.0/bot/) is a Discord bot that posts every run into a server – a summary with the fastest proxies, the full lists per protocol as files, and slash commands like `/proxies type:socks5 country:DE https:true`. It sets up its own read-only channels when you invite it, and a GitHub Action deploys it to a server as a systemd service. The same process answers on Telegram too: `/proxy de socks5` for one proxy with a curl line, `/proxies 10 us https` for a short list. Setup in [bot/README.md](https://github.com/maximilianfeix/proxy-scraper/blob/v1.28.0/bot/README.md).
 
 <a id="how-it-works"></a>
 
 ## How it works
 
 <picture>
-  <source media="(prefers-color-scheme: dark)" srcset="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/maximilianfeix/proxy-scraper/v1.26.0/docs/checks-dark.svg">
-  <source media="(prefers-color-scheme: light)" srcset="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/maximilianfeix/proxy-scraper/v1.26.0/docs/checks-light.svg">
-  <img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/maximilianfeix/proxy-scraper/v1.26.0/docs/checks-dark.svg" alt="The five checks: 700+ lists, a real handshake, two sites with one IP, nothing injected, the details" width="100%">
+  <source media="(prefers-color-scheme: dark)" srcset="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/maximilianfeix/proxy-scraper/v1.28.0/docs/checks-dark.svg">
+  <source media="(prefers-color-scheme: light)" srcset="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/maximilianfeix/proxy-scraper/v1.28.0/docs/checks-light.svg">
+  <img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/maximilianfeix/proxy-scraper/v1.28.0/docs/checks-dark.svg" alt="The five checks: 700+ lists, a real handshake, two sites with one IP, nothing injected, the details" width="100%">
 </picture>
 
 
@@ -626,7 +634,7 @@ flowchart LR
     G -. next run .-> C
 ```
 
-1. **Sources** – the curated list in [`sources.json`](https://github.com/maximilianfeix/proxy-scraper/blob/v1.26.0/proxyscraper/sources.json), meta sources (other projects that maintain lists of proxy sources) and, once a day, a GitHub search for actively maintained repos. Every search adds to what earlier ones found; a list the search hasn't seen for three weeks drops out.
+1. **Sources** – the curated list in [`sources.json`](https://github.com/maximilianfeix/proxy-scraper/blob/v1.28.0/proxyscraper/sources.json), meta sources (other projects that maintain lists of proxy sources) and, once a day, a GitHub search for actively maintained repos. Every search adds to what earlier ones found; a list the search hasn't seen for three weeks drops out.
 2. **Collect** – plain text, HTML tables, JSON APIs and `type://ip:port` lines are recognized; private and reserved address ranges are dropped. Lists that haven't changed since the last run answer `304` and come from a local cache – a second run right after the first loads 0 MB instead of ~160 MB.
 3. **Prioritize** – known working proxies first, then by the learned hit rate of their sources.
 4. **Check** – every proxy has to fetch its exit IP from a check target (`checkip.amazonaws.com`, with `ifconfig.me`, `ipinfo.io`, `wtfismyip.com` and `ident.me` as reserves – none of them behind Cloudflare) and return a valid, *foreign* IP. If the target goes down mid-run, the tool switches and re-checks the proxies that were affected, so the statistics don't learn from an outage. Anyone passing your own IP through is out. Then comes the **confirmation** via `httpbin.org`: fake proxies that only answer the first check with “200 + IP” fail here. Finally a static HTML page has to arrive byte for byte as it does without a proxy – anyone injecting ads or scripts is out.
@@ -638,9 +646,9 @@ flowchart LR
 <summary><b>📸 See the live dashboard and final report</b></summary>
 <br>
 <div align="center">
-<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/maximilianfeix/proxy-scraper/v1.26.0/docs/dashboard.svg" alt="Live dashboard while checking" width="860">
+<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/maximilianfeix/proxy-scraper/v1.28.0/docs/dashboard.svg" alt="Live dashboard while checking" width="860">
 <br><br>
-<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/maximilianfeix/proxy-scraper/v1.26.0/docs/summary.svg" alt="Final report after a run" width="860">
+<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/maximilianfeix/proxy-scraper/v1.28.0/docs/summary.svg" alt="Final report after a run" width="860">
 </div>
 </details>
 
@@ -651,7 +659,7 @@ proxy-scraper --source https://example.com/my-list.txt --source socks5=./socks.t
 proxy-scraper --only-sources --source bought.txt --want 50                            # only yours
 ```
 
-Any text with `ip:port` works; lines like `socks5://user:pass@host:port` keep their type, bare ones are tried as HTTP and SOCKS5 unless you write `http=…`. For logins written the way many paid lists export them, `ip:port:user:pass`, use `--recheck bought.txt` or pipe the list into `--recheck -` – sources leave that form alone, since lists like `ip:port:US:elite` look the same.
+Any text with `ip:port` works; lines like `socks5://user:pass@host:port` keep their type, bare ones are tried as HTTP and SOCKS5 unless you write `http=…`. For logins written the way many paid lists export them, `ip:port:user:pass`, use `--recheck bought.txt`, `--recheck https://example.com/proxies.txt` for a list on the web, or pipe the list into `--recheck -` – sources leave that form alone, since lists like `ip:port:US:elite` look the same.
 
 <a id="output"></a>
 
@@ -782,6 +790,25 @@ if __name__ == "__main__":
 
 In a Scrapy project, put `RotatingProxy` in `middlewares.py` and add it to `DOWNLOADER_MIDDLEWARES` in `settings.py`. For long crawls, reload the pool now and then – the list changes every hour.
 
+**Selenium** – Chrome and Firefox can't send a proxy login, so point them at the local rotating server instead: every page load goes out through another checked proxy, and dead ones are skipped for you
+
+```bash
+proxy-scraper --recheck live --serve --https-only     # 127.0.0.1:8899, ready in about 30 s
+```
+
+```python
+from selenium import webdriver
+
+options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
+options.add_argument("--proxy-server=http://127.0.0.1:8899")
+driver = webdriver.Chrome(options=options)
+driver.get("https://api.ipify.org")
+print(driver.find_element("tag name", "body").text)     # a different IP on each start
+driver.quit()
+```
+
+Firefox takes the proxy as preferences: `options = webdriver.FirefoxOptions()`, then `options.set_preference("network.proxy.type", 1)`, `"network.proxy.http"` / `"network.proxy.ssl"` to `"127.0.0.1"` and `"network.proxy.http_port"` / `"network.proxy.ssl_port"` to `8899`. Keep the server without `--serve-host`, so only your own machine can use it, and start it with `--https-only` when the pages are `https://` – then only proxies that passed the HTTPS test with verified TLS serve them. One browser session keeps its connections, so for a new IP per page use `session-NAME` in the proxy login (not possible in Selenium) or restart the driver.
+
 **proxychains, Clash / Mihomo, sing-box** – ready-made configs with `--export`
 
 ```bash
@@ -793,6 +820,8 @@ proxychains4 -f results/latest/proxychains.conf curl https://api.ipify.org
 
 **Browsers and the OS** – `--export pac` writes `proxy.pac`: point Firefox, Chrome (via the system settings), FoxyProxy or macOS/Windows proxy settings at it and every request goes through the best 30 HTTP and SOCKS5 proxies in order, the browser moving on by itself when one fails. Local names and private IP addresses stay direct (a host name like `10.example.com` doesn't count as private). The file itself has no `DIRECT` fallback and resolves no host names, and SOCKS4 is left out because it would make the browser resolve names with your own DNS. Two Firefox settings matter: turn on *Proxy DNS when using SOCKS v5*, and set `network.proxy.failover_direct` to `false` in `about:config` – otherwise Firefox goes direct once every proxy has failed. No install at all: the live list publishes one every hour at `https://maximilianfeix.github.io/proxy-scraper/proxy.pac`.
 
+**Proxifier** (Windows, macOS) sends *any* program through a proxy, even ones without proxy settings. `--export proxifier` writes `proxifier.ppx`: import it via *File → Import Profile*, and every connection goes through a redundancy chain of the best 50 proxies – Proxifier tries them in order and takes the first that answers. `localhost` stays direct. HTTP proxies are included only when they can tunnel (`CONNECT`), SOCKS4 only without a login. Needs Proxifier 4; add `--https-only` for proxies that passed the HTTPS test.
+
 **Burp Suite, OWASP ZAP, mitmproxy** – put the rotating server behind your intercepting proxy, so a scan or a brute-force test comes from many IPs while you still see every request. Start it with `proxy-scraper --recheck live --serve`, then:
 
 | Tool | Where | Set |
@@ -827,6 +856,8 @@ pip download requests   # git, pip, npm & co. now go through the pool
 
 **In a GitHub workflow** – the action picks working proxies for the next steps
 
+[Marketplace](https://github.com/marketplace/actions/proxy-scraper-free-working-proxies) · [Complete workflow, inputs and outputs](https://github.com/maximilianfeix/proxy-scraper/blob/v1.28.0/docs/github-action.md)
+
 ```yaml
 - id: proxies
   uses: maximilianfeix/proxy-scraper@v1
@@ -889,7 +920,7 @@ curl.exe -x (Get-Content "$run\all.txt" -TotalCount 1) http://api.ipify.org
 | `--no-blocklisted` | skip proxies whose exit IP is on the SpamCop blocklist – those often get captchas |
 | `--no-dnsbl` | skip the blocklist lookup |
 | `--target URL` | only proxies that reach this site (repeatable) |
-| `--recheck [FILE\|-\|live]` | only check proxies from a file, stdin (`-`), the last run, or the public live list |
+| `--recheck [FILE\|URL\|-\|live]` | only check proxies from a file, a URL, stdin (`-`), the last run, or the public live list |
 | `--fast` | skip the HTTPS test (confirmation and anonymity still run) |
 | `--no-geo` | skip the country lookup |
 | `-c`, `--concurrency N` | simultaneous checks (default: 2000) |
@@ -904,7 +935,7 @@ curl.exe -x (Get-Content "$run\all.txt" -TotalCount 1) http://api.ipify.org
 | `--serve-refill HOURS` | while serving, check fresh proxies every HOURS and add the hits to the pool |
 | `--serve [PORT]` | afterwards serve as a rotating proxy on `127.0.0.1:PORT` (default: 8899) |
 | `-o FILE` | also write all hits to this file; `-o -` prints them to stdout |
-| `--export FORMATS` | extra files for other tools: `proxychains`, `clash`, `singbox`, `curl`, `pac` or `all` |
+| `--export FORMATS` | extra files for other tools: `proxychains`, `clash`, `singbox`, `curl`, `pac`, `proxifier` or `all` |
 | `-V`, `--version` | print the version |
 | `--completion SHELL` | print the tab completion script for bash, zsh, fish or PowerShell |
 
@@ -1027,7 +1058,7 @@ Shipped in [v1.5](https://github.com/maximilianfeix/proxy-scraper/milestone/5):
 
 ## Contributing
 
-Bug reports, new sources and pull requests are very welcome – see [CONTRIBUTING.md](https://github.com/maximilianfeix/proxy-scraper/blob/v1.26.0/CONTRIBUTING.md), and [docs/ARCHITECTURE.md](https://github.com/maximilianfeix/proxy-scraper/blob/v1.26.0/docs/ARCHITECTURE.md) for how the pieces fit together. The short version:
+Bug reports, new sources and pull requests are very welcome – see [CONTRIBUTING.md](https://github.com/maximilianfeix/proxy-scraper/blob/v1.28.0/CONTRIBUTING.md), and [docs/ARCHITECTURE.md](https://github.com/maximilianfeix/proxy-scraper/blob/v1.28.0/docs/ARCHITECTURE.md) for how the pieces fit together. The short version:
 
 ```bash
 pip install -e ".[dev]"
@@ -1060,12 +1091,13 @@ proxyscraper/
 ├── geodb.py            DB-IP country database (monthly, binary search)
 ├── targets.py          target sites for --target
 ├── output.py           result files
-├── exporters.py        proxychains, Clash, sing-box, curl and PAC formats (--export)
+├── exporters.py        proxychains, Clash, sing-box, curl, PAC and Proxifier formats (--export)
 ├── server/             rotating proxy server (--serve): pool · http · upstream · socks · status · api · core
 ├── api.py              find_proxies() / check_proxies() for Python
 ├── agent.py            MCP tools without the SDK: live list, filters, fetch through proxies
 ├── mcp_server.py       MCP server (proxy-scraper-mcp) for AI agents
 ├── publish.py          live list for GitHub Actions
+├── sourcepages.py      the ranking of the sources on the website
 ├── mirror.py           the same lists in their own repo (free-proxy-list)
 ├── paths.py            where state and results are stored
 ├── compat.py           differences between Unix and Windows
@@ -1089,6 +1121,8 @@ Thanks to everyone who helped build it – new sources, countries, Python 3.14,
 
 Want to join? [Beginner-friendly issues](https://github.com/maximilianfeix/proxy-scraper/issues?q=is%3Aopen+label%3A%22good+first+issue%22) say where to start.
 
+From the same author: [dejabuilt](https://github.com/maximilianfeix/dejabuilt), an agent skill that checks GitHub before you build – it tells you whether a project idea already exists, with the numbers.
+
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@@ -1101,7 +1135,7 @@ Want to join? [Beginner-friendly issues](https://github.com/maximilianfeix/proxy
 
 ## Acknowledgements
 
-proxy-scraper stands on the work of the people who publish free proxy lists. Thanks to everyone listed in [`sources.json`](https://github.com/maximilianfeix/proxy-scraper/blob/v1.26.0/proxyscraper/sources.json), and especially to
+proxy-scraper stands on the work of the people who publish free proxy lists. Thanks to everyone listed in [`sources.json`](https://github.com/maximilianfeix/proxy-scraper/blob/v1.28.0/proxyscraper/sources.json), and especially to
 
 - [monosans/proxy-scraper-checker](https://github.com/monosans/proxy-scraper-checker) and [gfpcom/free-proxy-list](https://github.com/gfpcom/free-proxy-list), whose curated source collections are read as meta sources
 - [Textualize/rich](https://github.com/Textualize/rich), which draws the whole terminal UI
@@ -1116,7 +1150,7 @@ This tool only collects publicly listed proxies and checks whether they work. Yo
 
 ---
 
-<sub>Made in Germany by <a href="https://github.com/maximilianfeix">@maximilianfeix</a> · <a href="https://github.com/maximilianfeix/proxy-scraper/blob/v1.26.0/LICENSE">MIT License</a> · <a href="https://github.com/maximilianfeix/proxy-scraper/blob/v1.26.0/CHANGELOG.md">Changelog</a> · <a href="https://github.com/maximilianfeix/proxy-scraper/blob/v1.26.0/SECURITY.md">Security</a> · <a href="https://github.com/maximilianfeix/proxy-scraper/blob/v1.26.0/CONTRIBUTING.md">Contributing</a></sub>
+<sub>Made in Germany by <a href="https://github.com/maximilianfeix">@maximilianfeix</a> · <a href="https://github.com/maximilianfeix/proxy-scraper/blob/v1.28.0/LICENSE">MIT License</a> · <a href="https://github.com/maximilianfeix/proxy-scraper/blob/v1.28.0/CHANGELOG.md">Changelog</a> · <a href="https://github.com/maximilianfeix/proxy-scraper/blob/v1.28.0/SECURITY.md">Security</a> · <a href="https://github.com/maximilianfeix/proxy-scraper/blob/v1.28.0/CONTRIBUTING.md">Contributing</a></sub>
 
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