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Top 23 Python Proxy Projects
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mitmproxy
An interactive TLS-capable intercepting HTTP proxy for penetration testers and software developers.
Project mention: How to audit what your IDE extension actually sends to the cloud | dev.to | 2026-05-22mitmproxy is the gold standard here. It's free, open source, and Python-scriptable.
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Project mention: I Built a Self-Hosted RSS Reader with AI Summarization, Translation, and an MCP Server | dev.to | 2026-03-16
For sites requiring JavaScript rendering, FlareSolverr (Headless Chrome) handles it.
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websockify
Websockify is a WebSocket to TCP proxy/bridge. This allows a browser to connect to any application/server/service.
FROM alpine:edge RUN apk add --no-cache \ xfce4 \ faenza-icon-theme \ firefox \ fluxbox \ xvfb \ x11vnc \ novnc \ supervisor \ bash \ git python3 py3-pip # noVNC setup RUN rm -rf /usr/share/novnc && \ git clone https://github.com/novnc/noVNC.git /usr/share/novnc && \ git clone https://github.com/novnc/websockify.git /usr/share/novnc/utils/websockify && \ ln -sf /usr/share/novnc/vnc.html /usr/share/novnc/index.html ENV DISPLAY=:1 ENV RESOLUTION=1920x1080x24 # Create VNC password RUN mkdir -p /root/.vnc && \ x11vnc -storepasswd "dummypass" /root/.vnc/passwd COPY supervisord.conf /etc/supervisord.conf CMD ["supervisord", "-c", "/etc/supervisord.conf", "-n"]
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proxy.py
💫 Ngrok FRP Alternative • ⚡ Fast • 🪶 Lightweight • 0️⃣ Dependency • 🔌 Pluggable • 😈 TLS interception • 🔒 DNS-over-HTTPS • 🔥 Poor Man's VPN • ⏪ Reverse & ⏩ Forward • 👮🏿 "Proxy Server" framework • 🌐 "Web Server" framework • ➵ ➶ ➷ ➠ "PubSub" framework • 👷 "Work" acceptor & executor framework
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python-proxy
HTTP/HTTP2/HTTP3/Socks4/Socks5/Shadowsocks/ShadowsocksR/SSH/Redirect/Pf TCP/UDP asynchronous tunnel proxy implemented in Python 3 asyncio.
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kiro-gateway
👻 Proxy API gateway for Kiro IDE & CLI (Amazon Q Developer / AWS CodeWhisperer). Use free Claude models with any client.
Project mention: The AWS Dev Setup Nobody Told You About. Claude Code, Kiro Pro, and Agent Plugins. | dev.to | 2026-04-04AWS recently released Agent Plugins for AWS, a set of structured skill packs for Claude Code covering serverless, deployment, SageMaker, and more. I wanted to test them. I already have a Kiro Pro subscription, so I used kiro-gateway to route Claude Code through it. No extra API subscription needed. Here's how that worked, and what broke along the way.
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cloudproxy
Hide your scrapers IP behind the cloud. Provision proxy servers across different cloud providers to improve your scraping success.
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Project mention: How SSH Works—and How It Breaks (Part 2): Simulating a Man-in-the-Middle Attack | dev.to | 2026-04-26
There are several tools that can act as a MITM. For this exercise, we'll use ssh-mitm, an interactive SSH interception tool for authorized security audits and penetration testing. It provides everything we need for the exercise.
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email-oauth2-proxy
An IMAP/POP/SMTP proxy that transparently adds OAuth 2.0 authentication for email clients that don't support this method. Keep legacy email clients working with Exchange Online, Gmail and other providers.
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MasterHttpRelayVPN
Domain-fronted HTTP/SOCKS5 proxy tunneling traffic through Google Apps Script with MITM TLS interception, HTTP/1-2 multiplexing, and DPI evasion.
Project mention: Masterking32/MasterHttpRelayVPN: proxy tunneling through Google Apps Script | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-04-28 -
openai-forward
🚀 大语言模型高效转发服务 · An efficient forwarding service designed for LLMs. · OpenAI API Reverse Proxy
Project mention: Hack IKKO "AI powered" earbuds to run DOOM, stole OpenAI API key, customer data | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-07-02- https://github.com/KenyonY/openai-forward/tree/main
but they still lack other abuse protection mechanism like rate limitting, device attestation etc. so I started building my own open source SDK
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Project mention: Bedrock for AI Coding Tools: Mantle vs Gateway vs LiteLLM — A Decision Guide for AWS Credit Burners | dev.to | 2026-03-23
bedrock-access-gateway (or my fork, bedrock-access-gateway-function-url) gives you an OpenAI-compatible proxy backed by all Bedrock models — including Claude, Nova, and Llama.
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tokentap
Intercept LLM API traffic and visualize token usage in a real-time terminal dashboard. Track costs, debug prompts, and monitor context window usage across your AI development sessions.
Project mention: A MitM proxy to see what your LLM tools are sending | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-01-28Looks like it's implemented that way already?
https://github.com/jmuncor/sherlock/blob/fb76605fabbda351828...
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evilwaf
evilwaf is a penetration testing tool designed to detect and bypass common Web Application Firewalls (WAFs).
Project mention: Evilwaf – MitM Firewall bypass proxy and WAF vulnerability scanner | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-03-20 -
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Tor2web
Tor2web is an HTTP proxy software that enables access to Tor Hidden Services by mean of common web browsers (by tor2web)
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TREVORproxy
A SOCKS proxy written in Python that randomizes your source IP address. Round-robin your evil packets through SSH tunnels or give them billions of unique source addresses!
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Libertea
Easily install and manage a multi-protocol VPN server; with user management, auto fallback and auto update.
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Index
What are some of the best open-source Proxy projects in Python? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
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| 1 | mitmproxy | 43,808 |
| 2 | XX-Net | 33,449 |
| 3 | FlareSolverr | 14,159 |
| 4 | websockify | 4,403 |
| 5 | ProxyBroker | 4,126 |
| 6 | proxy.py | 3,528 |
| 7 | mcp-proxy | 2,575 |
| 8 | python-proxy | 2,198 |
| 9 | kiro-gateway | 1,871 |
| 10 | cloudproxy | 1,701 |
| 11 | ssh-mitm | 1,454 |
| 12 | email-oauth2-proxy | 1,424 |
| 13 | MasterHttpRelayVPN | 1,018 |
| 14 | openai-forward | 988 |
| 15 | bedrock-access-gateway | 985 |
| 16 | tokentap | 796 |
| 17 | evilwaf | 784 |
| 18 | scrapy-rotating-proxies | 773 |
| 19 | Tor2web | 755 |
| 20 | mapproxy | 662 |
| 21 | quarry | 548 |
| 22 | TREVORproxy | 524 |
| 23 | Libertea | 413 |