Proxify

Proxify allows you to use Netlify as a Proxy Server. Proxify just takes advantage of the fact that Netlify Functions can make fetch requests. I mostly use this for crawling blocked websites in my web scraping projects.

I felt the need for a proxy server when I was working on iaseth/top-100-yc-companies. Many of the top websites are blocked in my country for various reasons. So, I created Proxify.

I am using readmix for generating this README. You can view the source file here.

Table of contents

Getting Started

• Install node-fetch:

  npm install node-fetch
  

• Drop the proxy.js script into your netlify/functions folder.

• Add the following to your netlify.toml file:

  
  [functions]
    node_bundler = "esbuild"
  
  [[redirects]]
  from = "/proxy"
  to = "/.netlify/functions/proxy"
  status = 200
  

• You can now deploy your website to Netlify. Your proxy server will be ready at your-app-name.netlify.app/proxy.

Using with Python

You can see the full example at python-example.py.

import requests

PROXY_URL = "https://proxify.netlify.app/proxy"

def getURL(pageURL):
    data = {"pageURL": pageURL}
    response = requests.post(PROXY_URL, json=data)
    return response

Using with JavaScript

You can see the full example at javascript-example.js.

const PROXY_URL = "https://proxify.netlify.app/proxy";

async function getURL (pageURL) {
    const data = {
        pageURL
    };

    const config = {
        method: 'POST',
        headers: {},
        body: JSON.stringify(data)
    }

    const res = await fetch(PROXY_URL, config);
    const htmlContent = await res.text();
    return htmlContent;
}

Project details

Dependencies

Dev dependencies

License

MIT License

Copyright (c) Ankur Seth.

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

Credit

This file was generated using readmix.