SLRP - rotating open proxy multiplexer

• Searches for proxies in open sources
• Intelligently stores state on disk across restarts
• Validates via configurable speed thresholds and anonymity
• Multiplexes HTTP/HTTPS MITM to HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS4, and SOCKS5
• Exposes REST API for refresh stats and pool health
• Exposes minimal Query Language for filtering of History and Proxy Stats.
• Records request history in-memory for further UI inspection
• Real-time statistics display about available pool
• Packaged as a single executable binary, that also includes Web UI

Usage

Download service, start it up, wait couple of minutes for the pool to pick up. Now run curl -D - -x http://127.0.0.1:8090 -k http://httpbin.org/get couple of times and see different origins and user agent headers.

Concepts

• Source is an async process that looks at one or more pages for refreshed proxy list.
• Refresher component does best effort on scheduling items.
• Some sources perform better forwarded through a Pool, warming it up.
• One proxy may be seen in multiple sources, so we keep exclusive proxies per source across refreshes, which are not found in other sources.
• Proxy consists of protocol (HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS4, or SOCKS5) and IP:PORT.
• Proxy becomes Scheduled immediately after it's seen in the source.
• Scheduled could transition into Probing queue if it's not Ignored (e.g. Timeouts or Blacklist).
• Probing uses configurable pool of rotating anonymity checkers to check for liveliness.
• Timeout items are re-added to Scheduled queue as Reverify source to probe item up to 5 times.
• Blacklist hosts historical faulty proxies that should never be probed again.
• Successful check results in Found queue and gets added to a Pool.
• Pool subdivides its memory into shards for randomized rotation and minimal resource contention.
• Pool uses configurable and backpressure-controlled workers to perform HTTP request forwarding.
• Every forwarded request gets a serial number (returned in X-Proxy-Serial header) and picks a different shard for an attempt, which is reflected in response in X-Proxy-Attempt header.
• Every forwarded request can later be inspected through GET /api/history or UI.
• Every attempt picks first available working random proxy from a shard and marks it as Offered. Total number of offers per used proxy is returned in response in X-Proxy-Offered header.
• In the event of no working proxies in a shard, proxy pool exhaustion errors can do backpressure and slow down issuing of serial numbers through simple leaky bucket algorithm.
• Every succeeded attempt through a proxy increases it's Success Rate (Succeeded/Offered), which is also calculated per hour. Total number of succeded attempts of used proxy are returned via X-Proxy-Succeed header. Proxy used is returned in X-Proxy-Through header.
• Every failed attempt marks proxy as not working and suspends offering it for 5 minutes.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

User Interface

Overview

http://localhost:8089/ shows current source refresh status and stats.

Proxies

http://localhost:8089/proxies provides search interface over active pool of found proxies. By default, entries are sorted by last working on top.

History

http://localhost:8089/history provides search interface over last 1000 forwarding attempts (configurable).

Blacklist

http://localhost:8089/blacklist provides search interface over unsuccessful probes.

Configuration

Conf file is looked in the following paths:

1. $PWD/slrp.yml
2. $PWD/config.yml
3. $HOME/.slrp/config.yml

Default configuration is approximately the following:

app:
  state: $HOME/.slrp/data
  sync: 1m
log:
  level: info
  format: pretty
server:
  addr: "localhost:8089"
  read_timeout: 15s
mitm:
  addr: "localhost:8090"
  read_timeout: 15s
  idle_timeout: 15s
  write_timeout: 15s
pprof:
  enable: false
  addr: "localhost:6060"
checker:
  timeout: 5s
  strategy: simple
history:
  limit: 1000

Every configuration property can be overridden through environment variable by using SLRP_ prefix followed by section name and key, divided by _. For example, in order to set log level to trace, do SLRP_LOG_LEVEL=TRACE slrp.

app

Fabric that holds application components together.

• state - where data persists on disk through restarts of the application. Default is .slrp/data of your home directory.
• sync - how often data is synchronised to disk, pending availability of any updates of component state. Default is every minute.

log

Structured logging meta-components.

• level - log level of application. Default is info. Possible values are trace, debug, info, warn, and error.
• format - format of log lines printed. Default is pretty, though it's recommended for exploratory use only for performance reasons. Possible values are pretty, json, and file (experimental). file will create a $PWD/slrp.log, unless specified by log.file property.
• file (experimental) - application logs in JSON format. Default value is $PWD/slrp.log.

server

API and UI serving component.

• addr - address of listening HTTP server. Default is http://127.0.0.1:8089.
• read_timeout - default is 15s.
• enable_profiler - either or not enabling profiler endpoints. Default is false. Developer use only.

mitm

HTTP proxy frontend.

• addr - address of listening HTTP proxy server. Default is http://127.0.0.1:8090.
• read_timeout - default is 15s.
• idle_timeout - default is 15s.
• write_timeout - default is 15s.

checker

Component for verification of proxy liveliness and anonymity.

• timeout - time to wait while performing verificatin. Default is 5s.
• strategy - verification strategy to check the IP of the proxy. Default is simple, which will randomly select one of publicly available sites: ifconfig.me, ifconfig.io, myexternalip.com, ipv4.icanhazip.com/, https://ipinfo.io/, api.ipify.org/, or wtfismyip.com. Another strategy is headers, which will look for the real IP address in https://ifconfig.me/all or https://ifconfig.io/all.json, which might have been added in HTTP headers while forwarding. And there's twopass strategy, that will first perform simple check and headers afterwards.

history

Component for recording forwarded requests through a pool of proxies.

• limit - number of requests to keep in memory. Default is 1000.

ipinfo

You can optionally enable this feature. This product includes GeoLite2 Data created by MaxMind, available from https://www.maxmind.com.

• license - your (free) license key for MaxMind downloads. You can skip specifying license key if mmdb_asn and mmdb_city are already downloaded in any other way and configured.
• mmdb_asn - already (or automatically) downloaded snapshots of MaxMind database. Default is $HOME/.slrp/maxmind/GeoLite2-ASN.mmdb
• mmdb_city - already (or automatically) downloaded snapshots of MaxMind database. Default is $HOME/.slrp/maxmind/GeoLite2-City.mmdb

API

GET /api

Retrieve last sync status for all components

GET /api/dashboard

Get information about refresh status for all sources

GET /api/pool

Get 20 last used proxies

GET /api/history

Get 100 last forwarding attempts

GET /api/history/:id

Get sanitized HTTP response from forwarding attempt

GET /api/blacklist

Get first 20 blacklisted items sorted by proxy along with common error stats

References

• ProxyBroker is pretty similar project in nature. Requires couple of Python module dependencies and had the last commit in March 2019.
• Scylla is pretty similar project in nature. Requires couple of Python module dependencies.
• ProxyBuilder