Simple Proxy Rotator

Simple Proxy Rotator - acts as an http(s) forward proxy rotator.

It uses glider to evenly requests to a list of configured proxies.

Introduction

You have: a list of http(s) proxies bought from a provider

You need: to distribute http(s) requests amongst those proxies.

Solution: configure your clients to use Simple Proxy Rotator as the forward proxy, and it will distribute the requests in round robin mode amongst its configured proxies.

Additionally, Simple Proxy Rotator will check each proxy every 60 seconds and remove it from the pool in case of error.

Setup

The forward proxy rotator is exposed on port 15000.

The proxy list can be configured in two ways :

• Using an environment variable : PROXY_LIST_URL. The proxy list will be downloaded from the given URL.
• By mounting the list as a volume on /app/proxy-list.txt

The proxy list should have 1 proxy per line using the following format : http://[username]:[password]@[host]:[port]. Example

http://user1:password1@12.34.56.78:1111
http://user2:password2@98.76.54.32:2222
...

Usage

Start the container using a downloadable proxy list

docker run -p 1234:15000 -e PROXY_LIST_URL=https://gist.githubusercontent.com/you/private-gist-hash/raw/proxy-list.txt almathie/simple-proxy-rotator

Start the container using a volume mounted proxy list

docker run -p 1234:15000 -v /path/to/proxy-list.txt:/app/proxy-list.txt almathie/simple-proxy-rotator

Use the rotator

curl -x "http://127.0.0.1:1234" "https://google.com"