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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) [\#php](https://scrapfly.io/blog/tag/php) 

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PHP's [Guzzle](https://docs.guzzlephp.org/en/stable/) is a popular HTTP client used when web scraping with PHP and proxies are an integral part of web scraping so here's a quick introduction on how to use proxies with Guzzle:

php```php
<?php
require 'vendor/autoload.php';

use GuzzleHttp\Client;

// Proxy pattern is:
// scheme://username:password@IP:PORT
// For example:
// no auth HTTP proxy:
$my_proxy = "http://160.11.12.13:1020";
// proxy with authentication
$my_proxy = "http://my_username:my_password@160.11.12.13:1020";
// Note: that username and password should be url encoded if they contain URL sensitive characters like "@":
$my_proxy = 'http://'.urlencode('foo@bar.com').':'.urlencode('password@123').'@160.11.12.13:1020';

$client = new Client([
    // Base URI is used with relative requests
    'base_uri' => 'https://httpbin.dev',
    // You can set any number of default request options.
    'timeout'  => 2.0,
    'proxy' => [
        'http'  => $my_proxy,      // This proxy will be applied to all 'http' URLs
        'https' => $my_proxy,      // This proxy will be applied to all 'https' URLs
        'https://httpbin.dev' => $my_proxy,  // This proxy will be applied only to 'https://httpbin.dev'
    ]
]);

$response = $client->request('GET', '/ip');
$body = $response->getBody();
print($body);
```



Guzzle does not support SOCKS proxies and the only available options are php's curl library or [buzz](https://github.com/kriswallsmith/Buzz).

Note that Guzzle proxy can also be set through the standard `*_PROXY` environment variables:

shell```shell
$ export HTTP_PROXY="http://160.11.12.13:1020"
$ export HTTPS_PROXY="http://160.11.12.13:1020"
$ export ALL_PROXY="socks://160.11.12.13:1020"
```



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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