Refresh proxy list from webshare every 20 minutes

[alif-munim]

Contribution

I've created a python script to make things easiers for users who have their WebShare proxy list refresh periodically. The script periodically downloads a user's proxy list from WebShare every 20 minutes to config/proxies.txt and reformats each proxy address to username:password@ip:host form. Any feedback would be appreciated :)

WebShare Proxy List API In your WebShare dashboard, click Download Proxy List
Then, copy the Proxy List API URL:

Setup

🔧 Below is the setup process for the proxy-refresh.py file.

Change the url variable here to your WebShare Proxy List API url:

def get_proxies():
    dir_path = os.path.dirname(os.path.realpath(__file__))
    url = 'your-webshare-url'
    filename = dir_path + '/' + 'config' + '/' + 'proxies.txt'

Adjust the regex pattern using the username and password values from your WebShare dashboard:

pattern = re.compile("(^.*)(:)(username:password)")

If you'd like to adjust the scheduling interval, you can do so by changing 20 to some other value here:

schedule.every(20).minutes.do(get_proxies)
while 1:
    schedule.run_pending()
    time.sleep(1)

Run Script

Finally, you can run the script using the following command:

> python3 proxy-refresh.py

💡 Congratulations! Your proxy list will automatically refresh every 20 minutes.

[Prince25]

Hey @alif-munim, thanks for your contribution! Sorry for the super late feedback. Excuse my ignorance, but doesn't Webshare allow you to use a rotating proxy that essentially fixes the issue you're trying to solve. They provide you with one proxy endpoint which assigns a random IP address from your proxy list. Plus, it gives you the option to rotate and refresh that proxy list. You can simply place that one proxy endpoint in config/proxies.txt.