Proxies: your first request

You need two things from the Proxies page in the portal: your account key and some balance. Then:

curl -x http://YOUR_KEY:[email protected]:3128 https://api.ipify.org

It prints an IP address. If that address is not your own, the request went through the proxy and you are done.

It is an ordinary forward proxy. You send your normal request through it; there is no special API to call.

The three parts

Host and port — proxy.privatebyte.com:3128 for HTTP and HTTPS, :1080 for SOCKS5.
Username — your account key, exactly as shown in the portal.
Password — the tier you want this request billed and routed at, such as standard. The password can also carry a country and a session; see the connection format.

Run one request, check the usage figure in the portal moved, then build the rest. It is the cheapest way to find a typo in your key.

Using zsh? Write ${KEY}:standard, not $KEY:standard. zsh reads :s after a variable as a modifier and silently changes your credentials.

Still stuck? Open a ticket — tell us what was missing and the article gets fixed.

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You need two things from the Proxies page in the portal: your account key and some balance. Then:

curl -x http://YOUR_KEY:[email protected]:3128 https://api.ipify.org

It prints an IP address. If that address is not your own, the request went through the proxy and you are done.

It is an ordinary forward proxy. You send your normal request through it; there is no special API to call.

Host and port — proxy.privatebyte.com:3128 for HTTP and HTTPS, :1080 for SOCKS5.
Username — your account key, exactly as shown in the portal.
Password — the tier you want this request billed and routed at, such as standard. The password can also carry a country and a session; see the connection format.

Run one request, check the usage figure in the portal moved, then build the rest. It is the cheapest way to find a typo in your key.

Using zsh? Write ${KEY}:standard, not $KEY:standard. zsh reads :s after a variable as a modifier and silently changes your credentials.

Still stuck? Open a ticket — tell us what was missing and the article gets fixed.