PHP and rotating proxies

Question

Has anyone of you tried using rotating proxies? How easy is this to implement? Does it work well? Your experience please

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Answer 1

PHP Curl supports a lot of proxy commands.

CURLOPT_PROXYAUTH CURLOPT_PROXYPORT CURLOPT_PROXYTYPE CURLOPT_PROXY CURLOPT_PROXY_SERVICE_NAME CURLOPT_PROXYUSERPWD CURLOPT_PROXYHEADER CURLOPT_HTTPPROXYTUNNEL

See for more information: http://php.net/manual/en/function.curl-setopt.php

Simple example below.

$proxy      =   array();
$proxy[]    =   '1.2.3.4';
$proxy[]    =   '5.6.7.8';

$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_PROXY, $proxy[array_rand($proxy)]);

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.1) Gecko/20061204 Firefox/2.0.0.1");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, 15);


$result =   curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);