ProxiClean

A simple utility for checking if an http proxy works or not. If you deal with huge lists of proxies and need to clean out the dead or non-functional ones, this might help you.

Using the power of oxygen proxi_clean will make a call to the ipinfo.io API (JSON is returned with proper headers) using Faraday and determine the current unproxied public IP. When checking if a proxy is valid or not proxi_clean reconfigures itself to use the proxy you provide and confirms that ipinfo.io returns an IP address that does NOT match your unproxied public IP.

If anything goes wrong we blindly assume the proxy is no good.

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'proxi_clean'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install proxi_clean

Easy! The API has 1 useful public method: works?. Just create a client and start checking proxies.

2.2.1 :005 > client = ProxiClean::Client.new
 => #<ProxiClean::Client:0x007fa149e78b18 @public_ip="47.202.47.103">
2.2.1 :006 > client.works? 'https://124.88.67.13:843'
 => true
2.2.1 :007 > client.works? 'https://NOT-GONNA-WORK.com:47'
 => false

1. Fork it ( https://github.com/mariozig/proxi_clean/fork )
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create a new Pull Request