Generating your Proxy

Once successfully purchased your first plan, it's time to generate the proxy for your needs.

Using the proxy generator seen below you can select the following options:
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Selecting the right geolocation can be crucial when scraping certain targets. Some websites enforce a geoblocking policy, only allowing IPs from certain geographical locations to access their content.

Choosing a geolocation close to your operating machine can also speed up your scraping operation, lowering ping to connect to the proxy.
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To view a list of geolocations that are available for PlainProxies IPv6 Residential Proxies click here.

Selecting the right proxy protocol is usually simple. If you want to scrape web content via http requests, then you need to select Http/s as your desired proxy protocol.

Socks5 is only needed in cases where you want to use a lower layer of network communication.

“SOCKS is an Internet protocol that exchanges network packets between a client and server through a proxy server. [...] Practically, a SOCKS server proxies TCP connections to an arbitrary IP address, and provides a means for UDP packets to be forwarded.” (Socks5 - Wikipedia)

Unlike a normal static proxy, a rotating proxy is rotating it's outgoing IP on every request.

The number one reason to use a rotating setup is to avoid rate limiting.

PlainProxies static sessions can be customized to perfectly fit your scraping needs, keeping the same IP for a certain amount of time.

As seen above when selecting Sticky Proxy Type there will be additional options popping up.

Session Lifetime and Session Timespan combined will define the time that the proxy generated will keep the same outgoing IP.

Additionally for static sessions you are able to generate a custom amount of proxies. All of these sessions will correspond to an outgoing IP. Once the lifetime (e.g. 1 minute) is over, the outgoing IP will change.