Usng a Proxy Server from a Windows C++ applicaiton

ProxyRack is one of the few proxy service providers which provide a residential VPN service. I came across their services while working on a Facebook data scrapper. ProxyRack claims to serve more than 800 million API requests per day, and while the lack of details about the company doesn’t inspire confidence, its pricing and features make it an attractive option worth exploring.

Proxycrack Open Source code samples can be found here.

This demo tries a Proxy SDK, via its REST API, and checks a web sites that returns your public IP. http://ip-api.com, a eree for non-commercial use, Easy to integrate service, available in JSON, XML, CSV, Newline, PHP.

Video Demo

In this demo, Proxycrack is used as part of a software for scrapping all comments of a given Facebook post.

My Demo is a Command Line based software component created for the purpose of demonstration of the Proxyrack SDK using C++ (Visual Studio C++) and LibCurl.

Making the Request

In this demonstration we use one of the rotating residental IP addresses provided by the API, and at the same time, use a 3rd party service which will return our public IP, so we can see if the IP indeed changes.