This article provides an example of using a proxy to make an HTTP request with the NodeJS programming language

NodeJS Code

In this example, we use the Residential proxy below:

resi.ipv6.plainproxies.com:8080:customer:product--resi6--pass--nicepass

This proxy is split into four parts separated by colons. We first save the proxy as a string variable, then split it into four parts at each colon and then add it, with authentication, to our proxy dictionary.

const request = require('request');  
let proxy_string = "resi.ipv6.plainproxies.com:8080:customer:product--resi6--pass--nicepass";  
let proxy_parts = proxy_string.split(':');  
let ip_address = proxy_parts[0];  
let port = proxy_parts[1];  
let username = proxy_parts[2];  
let password = proxy_parts[3];  
var reqOpts = {  
    url: "http://www.google.com/",  
    method: "GET",  
    headers: { "Cache-Control": "no-cache" },  
    proxy: http://${username}:${password}@${ip_address}:${port}  
};  
request(reqOpts, function (err, response, body) {  
    console.log(response.statusCode);  
});

Updated on: 20/02/2025