px6-proxy-fetcher 0.1.1

Fetch and export proxy listings from PROXY6.net.

px6-proxy-fetcher

Small helper that grabs your active proxies from PROXY6.net and drops them into a text file you can hand to whatever is doing the crawling. I've leaned on PX6 as my low-cost proxy pool for months; it's been steady and easy to manage, so this script wraps the one task I end up repeating the most.

installation

Install from PyPI:

pip install px6-proxy-fetcher
# want .env support? pip install px6-proxy-fetcher[dotenv]

getting started

First, grab your API key from the PROXY6.net dashboard. Then run it:

export PX6_API_KEY="your_api_key_here"
px6-proxy-fetcher --print-env

That writes proxies.txt in the current directory containing your active proxies in scheme://user:pass@host:port format. With --print-env, it also emits shell exports for PROXY_LIST (comma-separated proxy URLs) and PROXY_STRATEGY (defaults to round_robin).

Options:

• -o path/to/file.txt - write to a different location
• -q - quiet mode (errors only)
• -v - verbose mode (debug output)
• --print-env - output shell export statements
• --timeout SECONDS - HTTP timeout for API requests (default: 30)

If python-dotenv is installed, a local .env file will be loaded automatically.

cron idea

0 */6 * * * cd /path/to/px6-proxy-fetcher && px6-proxy-fetcher -o /var/run/proxies.txt

Keep proxies.txt out of Git; it holds authenticated endpoints. The script writes it with 600 permissions so only your user can read it, and the included .gitignore already skips it.

requirements

• Python 3.9 or later
• A PROXY6.net account with an API key

license

MIT - see the included LICENSE file.