requests-proxyhat

Route Python requests through ProxyHat residential proxies — a drop-in Session that pins one residential IP for the whole session by default, plus rotation, geo-targeting and socks5.

Why

Scraping or calling APIs from a datacenter IP gets you rate-limited, CAPTCHA-walled and blocked. requests already speaks proxies through its proxies={"http": ..., "https": ...} dict — this package fills that dict with ProxyHat's residential IPs (50M+ across 148+ countries) and wires it into a Session subclass, so session.get(url) just works through a residential IP. No fork, no boilerplate.

Install

pip install requests-proxyhat

Quick start

from requests_proxyhat import ProxyHatSession

# An API key auto-selects an active residential sub-user:
with ProxyHatSession(country="us") as session:   # sticky US IP for the whole session
    print(session.get("https://api.ipify.org").text)
    print(session.get("https://api.ipify.org").text)  # same IP — cookies stay coherent

Get an API key at proxyhat.com.

Just want the proxies dict for plain requests or your own Session?

import requests
from requests_proxyhat import proxyhat_proxies

proxies = proxyhat_proxies(country="de")   # {"http": "http://…@gate.proxyhat.com:8080", "https": …}
requests.get("https://api.ipify.org", proxies=proxies)

Credentials

Pass them explicitly or via environment variables — options win over env:

Targeting

ProxyHatSession(
    protocol="http",   # or "socks5"
    country="us",      # ISO code or "any" (default)
    region="california",
    city="new_york",
    filter="high",     # AI IP-quality tier
    sticky="30m",      # session lifetime (default); sticky=False rotates every request
)

Sticky session vs rotation

A Session usually means "keep talking to this site as one visitor" — logging in, paging, keeping cookies. If the exit IP changed mid-session the site would see a user teleporting between cities and block it. So ProxyHatSession is sticky by default: one residential IP is pinned for the session (sticky="30m", set on session.proxies), keeping cookies and fingerprint coherent.

Want a fresh IP on every request instead (e.g. many independent one-shot fetches)? Turn stickiness off:

with ProxyHatSession(country="us", sticky=False) as session:   # rotating residential IP per request
    for url in urls:
        session.get(url)   # each request exits from a new IP

Set a custom lifetime with sticky="2h".

The standalone proxyhat_proxies(...) dict is stateless, so it rotates by default (sticky=None); pass sticky="30m" to pin one IP in that dict too.

How it works

ProxyHatSession resolves your gateway credentials (via the official proxyhat SDK — an API key auto-picks an active sub-user, or pass username/password), then builds a proxy URL where the username carries ProxyHat's targeting grammar (<user>-country-us-sid-<id>-ttl-30m) and points at the gateway (http://gate.proxyhat.com:8080, or socks5://…:1080). Sticky mode sets that URL on session.proxies once, so every request reuses one pinned residential IP. Rotating mode overrides Session.request() to mint a fresh gateway session per call — so each request exits from a new IP, and requests' connection pool can't pin you to one, since the proxy URL itself changes.

License

MIT © ProxyHat