ProxyFinder
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but is there a way of showing which country the proxy is from in proxy.txt?
Any chance of making available a free opensource version for linux? Perhaps slightly crippled. I know there might be some others out there but I don't feel like digging around every nook and cranny of the interweb.
A lot of software vendors hold this philosophy, they make a free linux version and a paid windows version of thair app.
A lot of software vendors hold this philosophy, they make a free linux version and a paid windows version of thair app.
oops... I wrote a tool like a couple of years back with geoIp, anonymity level filter, response time moving averages, content modification detection, pluggable sources etc...
I never bothered to release it because I assumed there'd be heaps of tools out there like that... Mattseh for v2 I'd suggest adding response time MA's... That's definitely been the most useful feature of my own tool. One off response times vary enormously and aren't really useful for choosing reliable proxies from the list. Once I switched to scoring with MA's the amount of requests I could pull through skyrocketed.
I never bothered to release it because I assumed there'd be heaps of tools out there like that... Mattseh for v2 I'd suggest adding response time MA's... That's definitely been the most useful feature of my own tool. One off response times vary enormously and aren't really useful for choosing reliable proxies from the list. Once I switched to scoring with MA's the amount of requests I could pull through skyrocketed.
I really like the simplicity of the software.
I just wish that in future versions there is a way to lower the attrition rate when I move proxies (within minutes) from the tool to another tool like Scrapebox or others that use proxies.
I'd happily pay more for an interim upgrade if the attrition rate could be lowered.
The response time moving averages suggestion that Moxxy made above sounds like a really good idea.
I just wish that in future versions there is a way to lower the attrition rate when I move proxies (within minutes) from the tool to another tool like Scrapebox or others that use proxies.
I'd happily pay more for an interim upgrade if the attrition rate could be lowered.
The response time moving averages suggestion that Moxxy made above sounds like a really good idea.
I'm sure it works in wine but I was looking for something that I could tweak for my own reasons, one of them being an xrumer proxy harvesting tool.
No, because I am cheap and somewat ambitious is why he should give away a crippled version of his work for free. If I were that lazy I wouldn't have bothered learning linux and wouldn't be wasting time trying to duct tape my own proxy harvesting framework together. Lazy people generally tend to use windows over linux and hate customizing their systems especially where those customizations involve a little coding. I don't blame him for charging people $25 and just selling them a bytecode binary though, that's his prerogative but I need tweakable source code for my project.
If you've got the source code how is it crippled? You can just uncripple it.
The guy is earning bank of a well designed product, why would he want to give the keys to the business to some numpty who's best argument is "because I'm cheap"?
You've just made open source a little bit less sexy...
The guy is earning bank of a well designed product, why would he want to give the keys to the business to some numpty who's best argument is "because I'm cheap"?
You've just made open source a little bit less sexy...
He's already giving out the proggy to linux users in python bytecode format as you would know had you actually read this post. It would be trivial for him to repackage it into a combined binary + source package which would allow people to integrate it into the proxy scraping subsystems of apps such as xrumer and LFE. If they like it they will pay him for an enhanced version with more features compiled in.
He makes bank selling a compiled windows binary to windows users. I doubt more than 5% of his sales are to linux users who by nature like to tinker and tweak their software a lot more than windows users do. According to you my plan might be to steelz his leenux codez and then hax0r me a windows version of the proggy and steelz all his market share? Doesn't work that way in the real world.
hey extor you really want one for free just code your own
I've already got one that comes with xrumer, was just looking to enhance it's functionality but there are supposed to be other open source proxy scraping scripts out there but they have also been abandoned by their original creators so you can't really pay the original coder to mod or tweak it.
Moving averages is a rerally good idea, thanks.
I've had zero spare time recently, but should have some time soon to make an updated version, geoip is on the list.
extor:
If you can't write a script to take the output of the tool and be able to afford $25, I have no idea how you plan on being able to write complex tools, or use them for that matter. The bytecode works fine with "python proxyfinder.pyc". No wine required.
Maybe I should release the source at BHW?
I've had zero spare time recently, but should have some time soon to make an updated version, geoip is on the list.
extor:
If you can't write a script to take the output of the tool and be able to afford $25, I have no idea how you plan on being able to write complex tools, or use them for that matter. The bytecode works fine with "python proxyfinder.pyc". No wine required.
Maybe I should release the source at BHW?
Seeing as I'm coming out with all the noob questions today..
Is there an advantage in using this over Charon? As far as I understand both grab public proxies. But Charon can easily filter out the non-anons and the SOCKS proxies and can be used to recheck the already scraped lists and shows geo locations etc.
So is there's any advantage in switching to this tool? My primary use of proxies is for Scrapebox, btw.
Is there an advantage in using this over Charon? As far as I understand both grab public proxies. But Charon can easily filter out the non-anons and the SOCKS proxies and can be used to recheck the already scraped lists and shows geo locations etc.
So is there's any advantage in switching to this tool? My primary use of proxies is for Scrapebox, btw.
I don't want to write a complex tool, as I mentioned already I just want to duct tape tools written by other people. I've got xrumer and I've taken a cursory look at how engine.php works with it's list.txt input file. Was thinking of just plopping an url to an .html file as #1 in my list.txt and that .html file would be the very same "text" file that proxychecker spits it's results to. This way I could shorten xr's harvesting time to seconds and also ease the CPU overhead of my blasting box since proxychecker would already have done most of the work by cherrypicking a fresh list every 5 minutes.
I don't really need the source to make it do what I want it to do I guess but having a free crippled version of this intriguing mystery of a program would make me more likely to try it out for the purpose I just mentioned. I might just buy it anyway but I'm just saying that there might be people like me out there who want to test drive an app before buying rather than just relying on the ooohs and aaahs of other customers.
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