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 by [Bernardas Alisauskas](https://scrapfly.io/blog/author/bernardas) May 16, 2023 1 min read [\#http](https://scrapfly.io/blog/tag/http) [\#nodejs](https://scrapfly.io/blog/tag/nodejs) 

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Javascript's [axios](https://docs.guzzlephp.org/en/stable/) is a popular HTTP client often used when web scraping with nodejs. To use proxies with axios we can use the `proxy` parameter in `get` and `post`j methods:

javascript```javascript
const axios = require('axios');
axios.get('https://httpbin.dev/ip', {
  proxy: {
    host: "160.11.12.13",
    port: "8080",
    auth: {
      username: "username",
      password: "password",
    }
  }
})
.then((response) => {
  console.log(response.data);
})
.catch((error) => {
  console.error(error);
});
```



Note that `axios` does not support automatic proxy use through terminal environment variables `HTTP_PROXY`, `HTTPS_PROXY` or `ALL_PROXY`.

Axios also does not support SOCKS proxies directly but it can be enabled through [socks-proxy-agent](https://www.npmjs.com/package/socks-proxy-agent/) library:

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

const proxy = 'socks5://localhost:1080';

const httpAgent = new SocksProxyAgent(proxy);
const httpsAgent = new SocksProxyAgent(proxy);

axios.get('http://example.com', {
  httpAgent,
  httpsAgent,
})
.then((response) => {
  console.log(response.data);
})
.catch((error) => {
  console.error(error);
});
```



Finally, when web scraping, it's best to rotate proxies for each request. For that see our article: [How to Rotate Proxies in Web Scraping](https://scrapfly.io/blog/posts/how-to-rotate-proxies-in-web-scraping)



 

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