proxy-chain VS http-proxy

Compare proxy-chain vs http-proxy and see what are their differences.

proxy-chain

Node.js implementation of a proxy server (think Squid) with support for SSL, authentication and upstream proxy chaining. (by apifytech)

http-proxy

A full-featured http proxy for node.js (by http-party)
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proxy-chain http-proxy
2 14
784 13,736
2.3% 0.4%
4.1 0.0
4 months ago 8 days ago
JavaScript JavaScript
Apache License 2.0 GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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proxy-chain

Posts with mentions or reviews of proxy-chain. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-02-06.

http-proxy

Posts with mentions or reviews of http-proxy. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-06-08.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing proxy-chain and http-proxy you can also consider the following projects:

pyppeteer - Headless chrome/chromium automation library (unofficial port of puppeteer)

axios - Promise based HTTP client for the browser and node.js

proxy-login-automator - A single node.js script to automatically inject user/password to http proxy server via a local forwarder

node-fetch - A light-weight module that brings the Fetch API to Node.js

playwright-go - Playwright for Go a browser automation library to control Chromium, Firefox and WebKit with a single API.

ky-universal - Use Ky in both Node.js and browsers

Nightmare - A high-level browser automation library.

gh-got - Convenience wrapper for Got to interact with the GitHub API

taiko - A node.js library for testing modern web applications

Nock - HTTP server mocking and expectations library for Node.js

got - 🌐 Human-friendly and powerful HTTP request library for Node.js

global-agent - Global HTTP/HTTPS proxy agent configurable using environment variables.