Quickstart

Get your first proxied request working in three steps.

1. Create an account

Sign up and open your dashboard.

2. Get your credentials

Every plan comes with a proxy username and password — FlashProxy uses Basic authentication. You'll find them on your plan's page in the dashboard. See Authentication for details.

3. Make a request

Point your client at the gateway for your product. Using Residential as an example:

curl -x "http://USERNAME:[email protected]:8080" https://api.ipify.org

Prefer code? The same request in Python and Node.js:

import requests

proxy = "http://USERNAME:[email protected]:8080"
print(requests.get("https://api.ipify.org", proxies={"http": proxy, "https": proxy}).text)

import { ProxyAgent } from 'undici';

const dispatcher = new ProxyAgent(
  'http://USERNAME:[email protected]:8080'
);
console.log(await (await fetch('https://api.ipify.org', { dispatcher })).text());

If it prints an IP that isn't yours, you're connected. See Code examples for httpx, axios, Scrapy, Playwright, Puppeteer, and Selenium.

Getting a 407? Your username or password is wrong or stale — re-check it in the dashboard. See Troubleshooting.

Next steps

• Choose a session type — rotating or sticky.
• Add geo-targeting to control where your IPs come from.
• Browse the per-product guides for connection details and pricing.