Basic Proxy Requests

Making requests with Web Stealth Proxy is easy, especially if you have previously used regular proxies for web scraping.

A simple way to get started is to send a basic request without any special options. Web Stealth Proxy will take care of adding the necessary headers and selecting the best proxy for you.

Web Stealth Proxy Integration Examples

#1: GET Requests

cURL

curl -k -x "http://stealthproxy.webscrapingapi.com:80" -U "<YOUR-PROXY-USERNAME>:<YOUR-PROXY-PASSWORD>" -X GET "https://httpbin.org/get" 

NodeJS

const axios = require('axios');
    
axios.get('http://httpbin.org/get', {
      proxy: {
          host: 'stealthproxy.webscrapingapi.com',
          port: 80,
          auth: {
            username: '<YOUR-PROXY-USERNAME>', 
            password: '<YOUR-PROXY-PASSWORD>'
          }
      }
    }).then(function (response) {
        console.log(response.data);
    }, (err) => {
      console.log(err)
})

Python

import requests

USERNAME = '<YOUR-PROXY-USERNAME>'
PASSWORD = '<YOUR-PROXY-PASSWORD>'

TARGET_URL = 'https://httpbin.org/get'

PROXY = {
   "https": f"http://{ USERNAME }:{ PASSWORD }@stealthproxy.webscrapingapi.com:80"
}

response = requests.get(
   url=TARGET_URL,
   proxies=PROXY,
   verify=False
)

print(response.text)

PHP

<?php
$ch = curl_init();

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, 'https://httpbin.org/get');

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_PROXY, 'http://<YOUR-PROXY-USERNAME>:<YOUR-PROXY-PASSWORD>@stealthproxy.webscrapingapi.com:80');

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, 'GET');

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 0);

$response = curl_exec($ch);

if (!$response) {
  die('Error: "'.curl_error($ch).'" - Code: '.curl_errno($ch));
}

echo 'HTTP Status Code: '.curl_getinfo($ch, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE) . PHP_EOL;
echo 'Response Body: '.$response . PHP_EOL;

curl_close($ch);
?>

Go

package main

import (
    "crypto/tls"
    "fmt"
    "io/ioutil"
    "net/http"
    "net/url"
)

func send_proxy() {
    proxyStr := "https://<YOUR-PROXY-USERNAME>:<YOUR-PROXY-PASSWORD>@stealthproxy.webscrapingapi.com:8000"
    proxyURL, err := url.Parse(proxyStr)

    if err != nil {
        fmt.Println(err)
    }

    transport := &http.Transport{
        Proxy:           http.ProxyURL(proxyURL),
        TLSClientConfig: &tls.Config{InsecureSkipVerify: true},
    }

    client := &http.Client{
        Transport: transport,
    }

    req, err := http.NewRequest("GET", "https://httpbin.org/get", nil)

    parseFormErr := req.ParseForm()
    if parseFormErr != nil {
        fmt.Println(parseFormErr)
    }

    res, err := client.Do(req)

    if err != nil {
        fmt.Println("Failure : ", err)
    }

    body, _ := ioutil.ReadAll(res.Body)

    fmt.Println(res)
    fmt.Println(string(body))
}

func main() {
    send_proxy()
}

Java

import org.apache.http.HttpHost;
import org.apache.http.HttpResponse;
import org.apache.http.auth.AuthScope;
import org.apache.http.auth.UsernamePasswordCredentials;
import org.apache.http.client.CredentialsProvider;
import org.apache.http.client.HttpClient;
import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpGet;
import org.apache.http.impl.client.BasicCredentialsProvider;
import org.apache.http.impl.client.HttpClients;
import org.apache.http.impl.conn.BasicHttpClientConnectionManager;
import org.apache.http.util.EntityUtils;

import java.io.IOException;

public class Main {
    public static void main(String [] args) throws IOException {

        final String PROXY_HOST = "stealthproxy.webscrapingapi.com";
        final int PROXY_PORT = 80;
        final String PROXY_USER = "<YOUR-PROXY-USERNAME>";
        final String PROXY_PASS = "<YOUR-PROXY-PASSWORD>";

        final String TARGET_URL = "http://httpbin.org/get";

        HttpHost myProxy = new HttpHost(PROXY_HOST, PROXY_PORT);
        CredentialsProvider credentialsProvider = new BasicCredentialsProvider();
        credentialsProvider.setCredentials(new AuthScope(myProxy)
                , new UsernamePasswordCredentials(PROXY_USER,PROXY_PASS));

        HttpClient client = HttpClients.custom()
                .setConnectionManager(new BasicHttpClientConnectionManager())
                .setProxy(myProxy)
                .setDefaultCredentialsProvider(credentialsProvider)
                .build();


        HttpGet request = new HttpGet(TARGET_URL);
        HttpResponse response = client.execute(request);
        System.out.println(EntityUtils.toString(response.getEntity(), "UTF-8"));

    }
}a

.NET

using System;
using System.Net;
using System.Net.Http;
using System.Threading.Tasks;

class Program
{
    static async Task Main() {

        var proxy = new WebProxy("http://stealthproxy.webscrapingapi.com:80")
        {
            Credentials = new NetworkCredential("<YOUR-PROXY-USERNAME>", "<YOUR-PROXY-PASSWORD>"),
        };

        var clientHandler = new HttpClientHandler
        {
            Proxy = proxy,
        };

        var client = new HttpClient(clientHandler);
        var response = await client.GetAsync("http://httpbin.org/get");
        Console.WriteLine(await response.Content.ReadAsStringAsync());
    }
}

Ruby

require 'uri'
require 'net/http'
require 'openssl'

proxy_host = "stealthproxy.webscrapingapi.com"
proxy_port = 80
proxy_user = "<YOUR-PROXY-USERNAME>"
proxy_pass = "<YOUR-PROXY-PASSWORD>"

url = URI("http://httpbin.org/get")

proxy = Net::HTTP::Proxy(proxy_host,
                         proxy_port,
                         proxy_user,
                         proxy_pass)

req = Net::HTTP::Get.new(url.path)

response = proxy.start(url.host,url.port) do |http|
  http.request(req)
end
    
puts response.body

Response Example

{
  args: {},
  headers: {
    Accept: 'text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/webp,image/apng,*/*;q=0.8',
    'Accept-Encoding': 'gzip, deflate, br',
    Host: 'httpbin.org',
    'Upgrade-Insecure-Requests': '1',
    'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/101.0.4951.80 Safari/537.36',
    'X-Amzn-Trace-Id': 'Root=1-632993e3-29380e237fe8c362301e8a57'
  },
  origin: '198.46.171.167',
  url: 'http://httpbin.org/get'
}

#2: POST Requests

cURL

curl -k -x "http://stealthproxy.webscrapingapi.com:80" -U "<YOUR-PROXY-USERNAME>:<YOUR-PROXY-PASSWORD>" -X POST "https://httpbin.org/get" --data '{"foo":"bar"}'

NodeJS

const axios = require('axios');
    
let data = { 'foo':'bar' }
axios.post('http://httpbin.org/post', data, {
      proxy: {
          host: 'stealthproxy.webscrapingapi.com',
          port: 80,
          auth: {
            username: '<YOUR-PROXY-USERNAME>', 
            password: '<YOUR-PROXY-PASSWORD>'
          }
      }
    }).then(function (response) {
        console.log(response.data);
    }, (err) => {
      console.log(err)
})

Python

import requests

USERNAME = '<YOUR-PROXY-USERNAME>'
PASSWORD = '<YOUR-PROXY-PASSWORD>'

TARGET_URL = 'https://httpbin.org/post'

DATA = {"foo":"bar"}

PROXY = {
    "https": f"http://{ USERNAME }:{ PASSWORD }@stealthproxy.webscrapingapi.com:80",
}

response = requests.post(
    url=TARGET_URL,
    data=DATA,
    proxies=PROXY,
    verify=False
)

print(response.text)

PHP

<?php

$data = json_encode(array("foo" => "bar"));

$ch = curl_init();

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, 'https://httpbin.org/post');

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_PROXY, 'http://<YOUR-PROXY-USERNAME>:<YOUR-PROXY-PASSWORD>@stealthproxy.webscrapingapi.com:80');

curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $data);

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, 'POST');

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 0);

$response = curl_exec($ch);

if (!$response) {
  die('Error: "'.curl_error($ch).'" - Code: '.curl_errno($ch));
}

echo 'HTTP Status Code: '.curl_getinfo($ch, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE) . PHP_EOL;
echo 'Response Body: '.$response . PHP_EOL;

curl_close($ch);
?>

Go

package main

import (
	"crypto/tls"
	"fmt"
	"io/ioutil"
	"net/http"
	"net/url"
	"strings"
)

func send_proxy() {
	proxyStr := "http://<YOUR-PROXY-USERNAME>:<YOUR-PROXY-PASSWORD>@stealthproxy.webscrapingapi.com:80"
	proxyURL, err := url.Parse(proxyStr)

	if err != nil {
		fmt.Println(err)
	}

	transport := &http.Transport{
		Proxy:           http.ProxyURL(proxyURL),
		TLSClientConfig: &tls.Config{InsecureSkipVerify: true},
	}

	client := &http.Client{
		Transport: transport,
	}
	
	 data := url.Values{}
	 data.Set("foo","bar")

	req, err := http.NewRequest("POST", "http://httpbin.org/post", strings.NewReader(data.Encode()))

	parseFormErr := req.ParseForm()
	if parseFormErr != nil {
		fmt.Println(parseFormErr)
	}

	res, err := client.Do(req)

	if err != nil {
		fmt.Println("Failure : ", err)
	}

	body, _ := ioutil.ReadAll(res.Body)

	fmt.Println(res)
	fmt.Println(string(body))
}

func main() {
	send_proxy()
}

Java

import org.apache.http.HttpEntity;
import org.apache.http.HttpHost;
import org.apache.http.HttpResponse;
import org.apache.http.auth.AuthScope;
import org.apache.http.auth.UsernamePasswordCredentials;
import org.apache.http.client.CredentialsProvider;
import org.apache.http.client.HttpClient;
import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpPost;
import org.apache.http.entity.ContentType;
import org.apache.http.entity.StringEntity;
import org.apache.http.impl.client.BasicCredentialsProvider;
import org.apache.http.impl.client.HttpClients;
import org.apache.http.impl.conn.BasicHttpClientConnectionManager;
import org.apache.http.util.EntityUtils;

import java.io.IOException;

public class Main {
    public static void main(String [] args) throws IOException {

        final String PROXY_HOST = "stealthproxy.webscrapingapi.com";
        final int PROXY_PORT = 80;
        final String PROXY_USER = "<YOUR-PROXY-USERNAME>";
        final String PROXY_PASS = "<YOUR-PROXY-PASSWORD>";

        final String TARGET_URL = "http://httpbin.org/post";
        final String BODY = "{\"foo\":\"bar\"}";

        HttpHost myProxy = new HttpHost(PROXY_HOST, PROXY_PORT);
        CredentialsProvider credentialsProvider = new BasicCredentialsProvider();
        credentialsProvider.setCredentials(new AuthScope(myProxy)
                , new UsernamePasswordCredentials(PROXY_USER,PROXY_PASS));

        HttpClient client = HttpClients.custom()
                .setConnectionManager(new BasicHttpClientConnectionManager())
                .setProxy(myProxy)
                .setDefaultCredentialsProvider(credentialsProvider)
                .build();


        HttpPost request = new HttpPost(TARGET_URL);
        HttpEntity stringEntity = new StringEntity(BODY, ContentType.APPLICATION_JSON);
        request.setEntity(stringEntity);

        HttpResponse response = client.execute(request);
        System.out.println(EntityUtils.toString(response.getEntity(), "UTF-8"));

    }
}

.NET

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Net;
using System.Net.Http;
using System.Threading.Tasks;

class Program
{
    static async Task Main() {

        var proxy = new WebProxy("http://stealthproxy.webscrapingapi.com:80")
        {
            Credentials = new NetworkCredential("<YOUR-PROXY-USERNAME>", "<YOUR-PROXY-PASSWORD>"),
        };

        var clientHandler = new HttpClientHandler
        {
            Proxy = proxy,
        };

        var data = new FormUrlEncodedContent(new[]
        {
            new KeyValuePair<string, string>("foo", "bar"),
        });

        var client = new HttpClient(clientHandler);
        var response = await client.PostAsync("http://httpbin.org/post", data);
        Console.WriteLine(await response.Content.ReadAsStringAsync());
    }
}

Ruby

require 'uri'
require 'net/http'
require 'openssl'

proxy_host = "stealthproxy.webscrapingapi.com"
proxy_port = 80
proxy_user = "<YOUR-PROXY-USERNAME>"
proxy_pass = "<YOUR-PROXY-KEY>"

url = URI("http://httpbin.org/post")

proxy = Net::HTTP::Proxy(proxy_host,
                         proxy_port,
                         proxy_user,
                         proxy_pass)

req = Net::HTTP::Post.new(url.path)
req.set_form_data({'foo' => 'bar'})

response = proxy.start(url.host,url.port) do |http|
  http.request(req)
end
    
puts response.body

Response Example

{
  "args": {},
  "data": "",
  "files": {},
  "form": {
    "{\"foo\":\"bar\"}": ""
  },
  "headers": {
    "Accept": "text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/webp,image/apng,*/*;q=0.8",
    "Accept-Encoding": "gzip, deflate, br",
    "Content-Length": "28",
    "Content-Type": "application/x-www-form-urlencoded",
    "Host": "httpbin.org",
    "Upgrade-Insecure-Requests": "1",
    "User-Agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/101.0.4951.64 Safari/537.36",
    "X-Amzn-Trace-Id": "Root=1-631edd38-2bbe74166ca70a5b438fa87f"
  },
  "json": null,
  "origin": "196.244.10.12",
  "url": "https://httpbin.org/post"
}a

#3: PUT Requests

cURL

curl -k -x "http://stealthproxy.webscrapingapi.com:80" -U "<YOUR-PROXY-USERNAME>:<YOUR-PROXY-PASSWORD>" -X PUT "https://httpbin.org/get" --data '{"foo":"bar"}'

NodeJS

const axios = require('axios');
    
let data = { 'foo':'bar' }
axios.put('http://httpbin.org/put', data, {
      proxy: {
          host: 'stealthproxy.webscrapingapi.com',
          port: 80,
          auth: {
            username: '<YOUR-PROXY-USERNAME>', 
            password: '<YOUR-PROXY-PASSWORD>'
          }
      }
    }).then(function (response) {
        console.log(response.data);
    }, (err) => {
      console.log(err)
})

Python

import requests

USERNAME = '<YOUR-PROXY-USERNAME>'
PASSWORD = '<YOUR-PROXY-PASSWORD>'

TARGET_URL = 'https://httpbin.org/post'

DATA = {"foo":"bar"}

PROXY = {
    "https": f"http://{ USERNAME }:{ PASSWORD }@stealthproxy.webscrapingapi.com:80",
}

response = requests.put(
    url=TARGET_URL,
    data=DATA,
    proxies=PROXY,
    verify=False
)

print(response.text)

PHP

<?php

$data = json_encode(array("foo" => "bar"));

$ch = curl_init();

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, 'https://httpbin.org/post');

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_PROXY, 'http://<YOUR-PROXY-USERNAME>:<YOUR-PROXY-PASSWORD>@stealthproxy.webscrapingapi.com:80');

curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $data);

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, 'POST');

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 0);

$response = curl_exec($ch);

if (!$response) {
  die('Error: "'.curl_error($ch).'" - Code: '.curl_errno($ch));
}

echo 'HTTP Status Code: '.curl_getinfo($ch, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE) . PHP_EOL;
echo 'Response Body: '.$response . PHP_EOL;

curl_close($ch);
?>

GO

package main

import (
	"crypto/tls"
	"fmt"
	"io/ioutil"
	"net/http"
	"net/url"
	"strings"
)

func send_proxy() {
	proxyStr := "http://<YOUR-PROXY-USERNAME>:<YOUR-PROXY-PASSWORD>@stealthproxy.webscrapingapi.com:80"
	proxyURL, err := url.Parse(proxyStr)

	if err != nil {
		fmt.Println(err)
	}

	transport := &http.Transport{
		Proxy:           http.ProxyURL(proxyURL),
		TLSClientConfig: &tls.Config{InsecureSkipVerify: true},
	}

	client := &http.Client{
		Transport: transport,
	}
	
	 data := url.Values{}
	 data.Set("foo","bar")

	req, err := http.NewRequest("PUT", "http://httpbin.org/post", strings.NewReader(data.Encode()))

	parseFormErr := req.ParseForm()
	if parseFormErr != nil {
		fmt.Println(parseFormErr)
	}

	res, err := client.Do(req)

	if err != nil {
		fmt.Println("Failure : ", err)
	}

	body, _ := ioutil.ReadAll(res.Body)

	fmt.Println(res)
	fmt.Println(string(body))
}

func main() {
	send_proxy()
}

Java

import org.apache.http.HttpEntity;
import org.apache.http.HttpHost;
import org.apache.http.HttpResponse;
import org.apache.http.auth.AuthScope;
import org.apache.http.auth.UsernamePasswordCredentials;
import org.apache.http.client.CredentialsProvider;
import org.apache.http.client.HttpClient;
import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpPut;
import org.apache.http.entity.ContentType;
import org.apache.http.entity.StringEntity;
import org.apache.http.impl.client.BasicCredentialsProvider;
import org.apache.http.impl.client.HttpClients;
import org.apache.http.impl.conn.BasicHttpClientConnectionManager;
import org.apache.http.util.EntityUtils;

import java.io.IOException;

public class Main {
    public static void main(String [] args) throws IOException {

        final String PROXY_HOST = "stealthproxy.webscrapingapi.com";
        final int PROXY_PORT = 80;
        final String PROXY_USER = "<YOUR-PROXY-USERNAME>";
        final String PROXY_PASS = "<YOUR-PROXY-PASSWORD>";

        final String TARGET_URL = "http://httpbin.org/put";
        final String BODY = "{\"foo\":\"bar\"}";

        HttpHost myProxy = new HttpHost(PROXY_HOST, PROXY_PORT);
        CredentialsProvider credentialsProvider = new BasicCredentialsProvider();
        credentialsProvider.setCredentials(new AuthScope(myProxy)
                , new UsernamePasswordCredentials(PROXY_USER,PROXY_PASS));

        HttpClient client = HttpClients.custom()
                .setConnectionManager(new BasicHttpClientConnectionManager())
                .setProxy(myProxy)
                .setDefaultCredentialsProvider(credentialsProvider)
                .build();


        HttpPut request = new HttpPut(TARGET_URL);
        HttpEntity stringEntity = new StringEntity(BODY, ContentType.APPLICATION_JSON);
        request.setEntity(stringEntity);

        HttpResponse response = client.execute(request);
        System.out.println(EntityUtils.toString(response.getEntity(), "UTF-8"));

    }
}

.NET

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Net;
using System.Net.Http;
using System.Threading.Tasks;

class Program
{
    static async Task Main() {

        var proxy = new WebProxy("http://stealthproxy.webscrapingapi.com:80")
        {
            Credentials = new NetworkCredential("<YOUR-PROXY-USERNAME>", "<YOUR-RPOXY-PASSWORD>"),
        };

        var clientHandler = new HttpClientHandler
        {
            Proxy = proxy,
        };

        var data = new FormUrlEncodedContent(new[]
        {
            new KeyValuePair<string, string>("foo", "bar"),
        });

        var client = new HttpClient(clientHandler);
        var response = await client.PutAsync("http://httpbin.org/put", data);
        Console.WriteLine(await response.Content.ReadAsStringAsync());
    }
}

Ruby

require 'uri'
require 'net/http'
require 'openssl'

proxy_host = "stealthproxy.webscrapingapi.com"
proxy_port = 80
proxy_user = "<YOUR-RPOXY-USERNAME>"
proxy_pass = "<YOUR-PROXY-PASSWORD>"

url = URI("http://httpbin.org/put")

proxy = Net::HTTP::Proxy(proxy_host,
                         proxy_port,
                         proxy_user,
                         proxy_pass)

req = Net::HTTP::Put.new(url.path)
req.set_form_data({'foo' => 'bar'})

response = proxy.start(url.host,url.port) do |http|
  http.request(req)
end
    
puts response.body

Response Example

{
  "args": {},
  "data": "",
  "files": {},
  "form": {
    "{\"foo\":\"bar\"}": ""
  },
  "headers": {
    "Accept": "text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/webp,image/apng,*/*;q=0.8",
    "Accept-Encoding": "gzip, deflate, br",
    "Content-Length": "28",
    "Content-Type": "application/x-www-form-urlencoded",
    "Host": "httpbin.org",
    "Upgrade-Insecure-Requests": "1",
    "User-Agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/101.0.4951.64 Safari/537.36",
    "X-Amzn-Trace-Id": "Root=1-631edd38-2bbe74166ca70a5b438fa87f"
  },
  "json": null,
  "origin": "196.244.10.12",
  "url": "https://httpbin.org/put"
}