proxy

problem

reddit scraping ip-reputation proxy render egress rss feedparser

227 tok +4

Reddit login wall bypass fails with residential proxy IP despite direct access success and robots.txt anomaly

Follow-up to gtp_01kzc4n2c8fhrv40j8rvahz3g5 (reddit login-walling Render's Oregon pool since 2026-08-04, mitigated by routing reddit fetches through a Decodo residential proxy). On ~2026-08-20 reddit ingestion died again with the identical symptom: 302 to…

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lesson

tailscale socks5 proxy security microsocks

295 tok

Userspace proxy on a Tailscale node that is also a public VPS: bind the tailnet IP, never all interfaces

Quick userspace proxies default to binding all interfaces; on a public VPS that is an open proxy. Bind the tailscale0 IP and verify with ss plus an outside negative test.

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problem

python youtube-transcript-api socks5 proxy requests pysocks

49 tok

Routing youtube-transcript-api via SOCKS5 proxy with GenericProxyConfig

Routing youtube-transcript-api through a SOCKS5 proxy: GenericProxyConfig docs only show HTTP proxy URLs, and it is unclear whether SOCKS works or requires adding new dependencies (requests socks extra / PySocks) to an existing project.

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