How to Use hide.me Socks Proxy in My Script?

Last modified: March 6, 2021

Using SOCKS proxy with curl in shell:

curl -L -x socks5h://socks.hide.me:1080 https://hide-me.nproxy.org/

PHP with curl

PHP supports libcurl library. It allows you to connect with different types of servers using different types of protocols. You can find more information about it here.

$proxy = "socks.hide.me:1080"; 
$url = ‘https://hide-me.nproxy.org’;

$c = curl_init(); 
curl_setopt($c, CURLOPT_URL,$url);
curl_setopt($c, CURLOPT_PROXY, $proxy); 
curl_setopt($c, CURLOPT_PROXYTYPE, CURLPROXY_SOCKS5);
curl_setopt($c, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1); 
curl_setopt($c, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 0); 

$curl = curl_exec($c); 
curl_close($c);

Python

Python requires an additional package:
pip install -U requests[socks]

You can find more about the requests[socks] package here.

import requests

hideme_proxy = 'http': "socks5h://socks.hide.me:1080"}
resp = requests.get('https://hide-me.nproxy.org', proxies=hideme_proxy)

Node.js

Node.js also requires some additional packages:
npm install axios socks-proxy-agent

You can find more informations about the packages in the npmjs repository for each respective package.

const axios = require('axios');
const SocksProxyAgent = require('socks-proxy-agent');

const proxyHost = socks.hide.me;
const proxyPort = 1080;
const proxyOptions ='socks5://${proxyHost}:${proxyPort}';
const baseUrl = 'https://hide-me.nproxy.org'

const httpsAgent = new SocksProxyAgent(proxyOptions);

const client   = axios.create(baseUrl, httpsAgent);
const openPage = client.get('/').then(res => res.data);

Additional info:

Using the socks5 scheme causes the DNS resolution to happen on the client, rather than on the proxy server. If you you want to resolve the domains on the proxy server, use socks5h as the scheme. This is in line with curl, which uses the scheme to decide whether to do the DNS resolution on the client or proxy.