Proxy

Connection

curl -x "http://YOUR-API-KEY:proxy=residential@proxy.spider.cloud:8888" \
  https://example.com

What you get

• Two pools

  Residential and ISP, with automatic IP rotation and session management.

• Geo-routing 199+ countries

  Per-request geo-routing with the country_code param.

• Throughput 10 GB/s peak

  The ISP pool pushes up to 10 GB/s.

• Tracker blocking

  Analytics scripts, ad networks and malicious domains are skipped by default.

• Any HTTP client

  Works with curl, requests, axios, or anything that supports proxy config.

• Full pipeline

  Same rendering and browser engine as the REST API. Compatible with Crawl, Scrape, Screenshot, Search, Links.

Pools and pricing

Set the proxy parameter to pick a pool. Use country_code to geo-route.

With zero data retention on, a self-serve account pays 2.5x the request cost after the pool multiplier, bandwidth included. Enterprise plans include zero data retention at no extra charge.

Request parameters

Example

import requests, os


# Proxy configuration
proxies = {
    'http': f"http://{os.getenv('SPIDER_API_KEY')}:proxy=residential@proxy.spider.cloud:8888",
    'https': f"https://{os.getenv('SPIDER_API_KEY')}:proxy=residential@proxy.spider.cloud:8889"
}

# Function to make a request through the proxy
def get_via_proxy(url):
    try:
        response = requests.get(url, proxies=proxies)
        response.raise_for_status()
        print('Response HTTP Status Code: ', response.status_code)
        print('Response HTTP Response Body: ', response.content)
        return response.text
    except requests.exceptions.RequestException as e:
        print(f"Error: {e}")
        return None

# Example usage
if __name__ == "__main__":
     get_via_proxy("https://www.example.com")
     get_via_proxy("https://www.example.com/community")