maximilianfeix/proxy-scraper

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.

DevOps & infrastructurePython#cli#http-proxy#proxy#proxy-checker#proxy-list

2.0 Steady Magnitude out of 10 — how fast interest is growing, not a quality score. Star growth looks organic. Data as of September 27, 2026, 11:28 UTC.

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About the project

Collects public HTTP, SOCKS4 and SOCKS5 proxies from 700+ sources and keeps only working ones, verifying against honeypots, script injection and TLS. Publishes a live list hourly and can run a rotating proxy server and an MCP server for AI agents.

Useful for

Run a rotating proxy server on :8899 for scraping
Connect the MCP server to Claude Code so the agent gets working proxies
Download a ready SOCKS5 proxy list by country via curl

README summarized by DeepSeek V4.1 Flash. Details may be inaccurate.

Why it’s trending

1 star so far today, about 5 expected by the end of the day.
The repository is 3 days old and already has 14 stars. With less than two weeks of history, there's no usual pace to compare the spike against yet.
Hacker News: “Show HN: I checked 1M free proxies – 1 in 5 working ones injected scripts” — 10 points, 21 h ago.

Stars per day

Bars are daily stars, the line is the usual pace. Red marks spike days.

Numbers

Total stars: 14
Today: 1 · ≈ 4 by evening
Forks: 0
Issues and pull requests: 175
Watchers: 1
Language: Python
License: MIT
Latest release: v1.9.0 · September 27, 2026
Created: September 24, 2026
Last push: September 27, 2026

Star trust

Growth looks organic: forks and discussion are in line with active projects, and stars arrive unevenly, the way people give them.

These are heuristics, not a verdict: we judge by the repository’s behavior, not by a list of stargazers.

Hacker News discussions

Show HN: I checked 1M free proxies – 1 in 5 working ones injected scripts10 points, September 26, 2026

Spotted in

September 27, 2026Spotted on Hacker News

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