2extract Developer Documentation

This guide assumes you have already created your first Residential Proxy. Here, we’ll focus on how to use it with a simple example.

Your Connection Credentials

First, navigate to your proxy’s settings page in the My Proxies dashboard. You will need the following from the “Connection Details” block:

Host: proxy.2extract.net
Port: (e.g., 5555)
Username: (e.g., 2xt-customer-...-proxy-my_scraper)
Password: (Click “Show” to reveal)

Example: Getting an IP from Germany

Let’s make a request to get an IP address from Germany. We will do this by adding the -country-de parameter to your username.

# Replace with your actual credentials
USERNAME="PROXY_USERNAME-country-de"
PASSWORD="PROXY_PASSWORD"
HOST="proxy.2extract.net:5555"

curl "https://api.ipify.org?format=json" \
  --proxy "http://${USERNAME}:${PASSWORD}@${HOST}"

import requests

# Replace with your actual credentials
proxy_details = {
  "username": "PROXY_USERNAME-country-de",
  "password": "PROXY_PASSWORD",
  "host": "proxy.2extract.net",
  "port": 5555,
}

proxies = {
 "http": f"http://{proxy_details['username']}:{proxy_details['password']}@{proxy_details['host']}:{proxy_details['port']}",
 "https": f"http://{proxy_details['username']}:{proxy_details['password']}@{proxy_details['host']}:{proxy_details['port']}",
}

response = requests.get('https://api.ipify.org?format=json', proxies=proxies)

print(response.json())

If successful, the response will be a JSON object containing an IP address located in Germany.

That’s it! You can now use this logic to target any country or configure sessions. For a full list of possibilities, check out our Configuration Guide.

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Your Connection Credentials

Example: Getting an IP from Germany

​Your Connection Credentials

​Example: Getting an IP from Germany

Your Connection Credentials

Example: Getting an IP from Germany