proxy-rotator

Proxy rotation service written in Node.js.

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Features:

• Rotation per host
• Handling of broken proxies
• Handling of blocked proxies
• Time between requets per proxy
• Statistics to identify problematic proxies

Installation

npm install proxy-rotator
cd node_modules/proxy-rotator
vim config.json
// fill in your proxies: ["http://user@pass:proxy.server:port"]

Configuration

To configure the service edit the file config.json

• defaultTimeout: Timeout in ms to wait for a response if not passed with the request (default: 5000)
• port: Port to listen to (default: 8000)
• bindAddress: If set, the service will only listen to this address (default: any)
• repairTime: Time in seconds a proxy is broken until next try
• blockTimeout: Time in seconds a proxy is blocked until next try
• graceTime: Time between requests on a single proxy
• logging: See log4js
• proxies: Array of proxies. Format: [protocol]://[username]:[password]@[ip/name]:[port]

Start

// using forever is recommended
forever start app
// the default way
node app

Usage

curl 'localhost:8000/?url=https://google.de'
curl 'localhost:8000/?timeout=5000&url=https://google.de'

Licence

The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2014 Jochen Weis

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

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