What is an IP Proxy?

IP proxy is a network technology that sends and receives data to and from the Internet through a proxy server, hides the user's real IP address, and changes the user's behavior when accessing the server. It is generally used in scenarios such as data collection, web crawling, and accessing restricted websites.

In practice, IP proxies can be categorized into different types such as HTTP proxies, SOCKS proxies, HTTPS proxies, etc., so you can choose the right type of proxy according to your actual needs. The following is an example of the use of HTTP proxy in Python.

import requests

proxies = {
"http": "http://127.0.0.1:8888",
"https": "https://127.0.0.1:8888",
}

response = requests.get("https://www.example.com", proxies=proxies)
print(response.text)

How IP Proxies Work

The IP proxy works by sending the data requested by the user to a proxy server, which in turn sends the request to the target server, receives the data back from the target server and then forwards it to the user. In this way, the user's real IP address is hidden.

In addition, IP proxies enable IP address masquerading and location spoofing. By proxying IP addresses located in different geographic locations, users can realize the needs of accessing restricted websites, crawling other geographically restricted information, and so on.

How to choose and use an IP proxy?

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When using IP proxy, you need to pay attention to the proxy server's IP address, port number, username, password and other information, as well as the proxy type. The use of IP proxies can be realized in code by specifying proxy information when sending requests through the requests library, the urllib library, and so on.

Through the above introduction, we hope that readers understand the basic concepts, working principles and usage of IP proxies, and can reasonably select and use IP proxies according to their own needs to enhance the flexibility of network access and privacy protection.