proxidize-pt 1.0.8
Proxidize Proxy Tester - A multi-threaded proxy testing tool for HTTP/SOCKS proxies
License: MIT
Requires Python: >=3.7
Keywords: proxy, testing, http, socks, socks5, network, tool, multi-threaded

# Proxidize: Proxy Tester

A professional, multi-threaded proxy testing tool for HTTP and SOCKS5 proxies with built-in speed testing and geo-location lookup.

## Features

- 🚀 **Multi-threaded Testing**: Efficient parallel proxy testing with intelligent thread management
- 🌍 **HTTP & SOCKS5 Support**: Test both HTTP and SOCKS5 proxies seamlessly
- 📍 **Geo-location Lookup**: Get detailed location information for working proxies
- ⚡ **Speed Testing**: Built-in download speed testing using speedtest-cli
- 🎨 **Beautiful UI**: Rich terminal interface with colored output and formatted tables
- 📊 **Export Results**: Save results to CSV format for analysis
- 🛡️ **Robust Error Handling**: Graceful handling of failures and interruptions
- 🔧 **Flexible Input**: Support for single proxy, file input, or interactive proxy entry

## Installation

### Recommended Installation (macOS)

```bash
# Install pipx via Homebrew (recommended method for macOS)
brew install pipx

# Install proxidize_pt
pipx install proxidize_pt
```

### Recommended Installation (All Platforms)

```bash
# Install pipx if you don't have it
pip install --user pipx
pipx ensurepath

# Install proxidize_pt
pipx install proxidize_pt
```

### Alternative Installation Methods

#### Using pip with virtual environment:

```bash
# Create a virtual environment
python3 -m venv proxy_tester_env
source proxy_tester_env/bin/activate  # On Windows: proxy_tester_env\Scripts\activate

# Install the package
pip install proxidize_pt
```

#### Using pip with user flag:

```bash
pip install --user proxidize_pt
```

#### System-wide installation (not recommended):

```bash
pip install --break-system-packages proxidize_pt
```

### From Source:

```bash
git clone https://github.com/fawaz7/Proxy-tester.git
cd Proxy-tester
pip install -e .
```

## Usage

### Command Line Interface

Once installed, you can use the main command:

```bash
proxidize_pt [options] <proxy_file_or_single_proxy>
```

### Basic Examples

```bash
# Test a single HTTP proxy
proxidize_pt --http pg.proxi.es:20000:username:password

# Test a single SOCKS5 proxy with geo-location
proxidize_pt --socks --geo pg.proxi.es:20002:username:password

# Test proxies from a file with speed test and verbose output
proxidize_pt --http --geo --speed-test -v proxies.txt

# Export results to CSV format
proxidize_pt --http --geo proxies.txt -o results.csv

# Export results to TXT format
proxidize_pt --http --geo proxies.txt -o results.txt

# Without specifying extension (defaults to CSV)
proxidize_pt --http --geo proxies.txt -o results

# Interactive mode (no arguments)
proxidize_pt
```

### Command Line Options

```
positional arguments:
  proxy                 Single proxy or path to proxy list file

options:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  --socks               Use SOCKS5 proxy
  --http                Use HTTP proxy
  --geo                 Enable IP geolocation lookup
  --speed-test          Include download speed test
  -o OUTPUT, --output OUTPUT
                        Output file path - specify format with extension (.txt default, .csv available)
  -v, --verbose         Enable verbose debug output
```

### Output Formats

Results can be saved in two formats by specifying the file extension:

- **TXT format**: Use `.txt` extension (e.g., `results.txt`) - Tab-separated values, human-readable plain text format (default)
- **CSV format**: Use `.csv` extension (e.g., `results.csv`) - Comma-separated values, ideal for spreadsheet applications and data analysis

The output format is automatically determined by the file extension you provide. If no extension is specified, TXT format is used by default.

### Proxy Format

Proxies should be in the format: `host:port:username:password`

Examples:

```
proxy.example.com:8080:user123:pass123
192.168.1.100:3128:admin:secret
pg.proxi.es:20000:username:password
pg.proxi.es:20002:username:password
```

### Input Methods

1. **Single Proxy**: Pass a proxy directly as an argument (without quotes)
2. **File Input**: Create a text file with one proxy per line
3. **Interactive Mode**: Run without arguments to enter proxies manually. After testing, you'll be prompted to save results in TXT format by default (or CSV if you specify .csv extension).

### Example File (proxies.txt):

```
proxy1.example.com:8080:user1:pass1
proxy2.example.com:3128:user2:pass2
pg.proxi.es:20000:username:password
pg.proxi.es:20002:username:password
```

## Platform Support

Proxidize works on all major platforms:

- ✅ **Windows** (Windows 10, 11)
- ✅ **Linux** (Ubuntu, Debian, CentOS, etc.)
- ✅ **macOS** (10.14+)

## Requirements

- Python 3.7 or higher
- Internet connection for proxy testing
- All dependencies are automatically installed via pip

## Output

Results are displayed in a beautiful table format and can be exported to CSV:

```
                          Proxy Test Results
┏━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━┓
┃ # ┃ Proxy Type ┃ IP Address     ┃ Location                          ┃ Latency ┃ Speed     ┃ Status  ┃
┡━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━┩
│ 1 │ HTTP       │ 172.56.168.96  │ Brooklyn, New York, United States │ 966ms   │ 5.03 Mbps │ Working │
│ 2 │ SOCKS5     │ 172.58.255.34  │ College Park, Maryland, US        │ 1240ms  │ 3.2 Mbps  │ Working │
└───┴────────────┴────────────────┴───────────────────────────────────┴─────────┴───────────┴─────────┘
```

## Troubleshooting Installation

### Error: "externally-managed-environment"

This error occurs on newer Python installations (especially with Homebrew on macOS). Use one of these solutions:

1. **Recommended**: Use `pipx` for application installation:

   ```bash
   pip install --user pipx
   pipx install proxidize_pt
   ```

2. **Use virtual environment**:

   ```bash
   python3 -m venv venv
   source venv/bin/activate  # On Windows: venv\Scripts\activate
   pip install proxidize_pt
   ```

3. **User installation**:
   ```bash
   pip install --user proxidize_pt
   ```

### PATH Issues

If you can't run `proxidize_pt` after installation:

- **With pipx**: Run `pipx ensurepath` and restart your terminal
- **With --user**: Add `~/.local/bin` (Linux/Mac) or `%APPDATA%\Python\Scripts` (Windows) to your PATH
- **With virtual environment**: Make sure the environment is activated

## License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.

## Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Please feel free to submit a Pull Request.

## Support

If you encounter any issues or have questions:

1. Check the [documentation](https://github.com/fawaz7/Proxy-tester/wiki)
2. Search [existing issues](https://github.com/fawaz7/Proxy-tester/issues)
3. Create a [new issue](https://github.com/fawaz7/Proxy-tester/issues/new)

If you can't run `proxidize_pt` after installation:

- **With pipx**: Run `pipx ensurepath` and restart your terminal
- **With --user**: Add `~/.local/bin` (Linux/Mac) or `%APPDATA%\Python\Scripts` (Windows) to your PATH
- **With virtual environment**: Make sure the environment is activated

## License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.

## Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Please feel free to submit a Pull Request.

## Support

If you encounter any issues or have questions:

1. Check the [documentation](https://github.com/fawaz7/Proxy-tester/wiki)
2. Search [existing issues](https://github.com/fawaz7/Proxy-tester/issues)
3. Create a [new issue](https://github.com/fawaz7/Proxy-tester/issues/new)