Proxy Leecher | Github

Legitimate proxy collection/aggregation tools on GitHub that:

While I won't link specific repositories to avoid endorsing potentially outdated tools, here is what to look for in the search results:

Users downloading or using these tools from GitHub face several risks: proxy leecher github

Most free proxies are actually misconfigured servers owned by innocent third parties (universities, small businesses, home routers). By routing your traffic through them, you are borrowing—or rather, stealing—their bandwidth. Some jurisdictions consider this unauthorized computer access.

Even if the tool works as intended, the results are dangerous. you are borrowing—or rather

These are the "jack of all trades." They scrape 20-50 different free proxy websites. Examples include repos named Proxy-Scraper, Proxy-Harvester, or Proxy-Leecher-V2.

Features:

Example code snippet (simplified):

sources = ['https://free-proxy-list.net/', 'https://www.sslproxies.org/']
proxies = []
for url in sources:
    response = requests.get(url)
    soup = BeautifulSoup(response.text, 'html.parser')
    # Extract rows from proxy table
    for row in soup.select('table tbody tr'):
        ip = row.select_one('td:nth-child(1)').text
        port = row.select_one('td:nth-child(2)').text
        proxies.append(f"ip:port")