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Unlock Seamless Rust Proxy Servers: Boost Performance & Privacy with ProxyTe

April 5, 2025 Mike

If you’ve been involved in web scraping for any length of time, you’ve likely encountered websites that block you based on your geographic location or IP address. Proxy servers can help you overcome these barriers by masking your real identity and granting you access to restricted content. With ProxyTee, you can easily navigate these situations.

Using proxy servers, especially with a language like Rust, can provide numerous benefits:

Avoid IP Bans: Rotating your IP address with a proxy helps you avoid detection and continue scraping.
Circumvent Geoblocks: If you need data from specific locations, ProxyTee offers a vast global IP pool that allows you to access location-specific content.
Enhance Anonymity: Proxy servers hide your real IP address, protecting your privacy and making your online activities harder to track.

Let’s dive into how you can leverage ProxyTee’s powerful and flexible features for web scraping in Rust.

Using ProxyTee in Rust

To start using a proxy server in your Rust application, you’ll need to configure your HTTP client to route requests through a ProxyTee server. Here is an example how to set it up by using reqwest client.

First, you need to set up your Rust project. Let’s start with adding some required packages:

cargo add reqwest tokio --features "reqwest/blocking tokio/full"

Now, let’s get to code with a simple HTTP client with proxy support. Here is the example code how you should do it:

use reqwest;
use std::error::Error;

#[tokio::main]
async fn main()  -> Result<(), Box<dyn Error>>{
    let url = "http://books.toscrape.com/";

    let client = reqwest::Client::builder()
       .proxy(reqwest::Proxy::https("http://YOUR_PROXY_ADDRESS:PORT")?.basic_auth("YOUR_USERNAME", "YOUR_PASSWORD"))
        .build()?;

    let response = client
        .get(url)
        .send()
        .await?;

    let html_content = response.text().await?;

    extract_products(&html_content);

    Ok(())
}

fn extract_products(html_content: &str) {

    let document = scraper::Html::parse_document(&html_content);

    let html_product_selector = scraper::Selector::parse("article.product_pod").unwrap();
    let html_products = document.select(&html_product_selector);

    let mut products: Vec<Product> = Vec::new();

    for html_product in html_products {
        let url = html_product
            .select(&scraper::Selector::parse("a").unwrap())
            .next()
            .and_then(|a| a.value().attr("href"))
            .map(str::to_owned);
        let image = html_product
            .select(&scraper::Selector::parse("img").unwrap())
            .next()
            .and_then(|img| img.value().attr("src"))
            .map(str::to_owned);
        let name = html_product
            .select(&scraper::Selector::parse("h3").unwrap())
            .next()
            .map(|title| title.text().collect::<String>());
        let price = html_product
            .select(&scraper::Selector::parse(".price_color").unwrap())
            .next()
            .map(|price| price.text().collect::<String>());
    
        let product = Product {
            url,
            image,
            name,
            price,
        };
        products.push(product);
    }

    println!("{:?}", products);
}


#[derive(Debug)]
struct Product {
    url: Option<String>,
    image: Option<String>,
    name: Option<String>,
    price: Option<String>,
}

This code sets up the client with the proxy parameters, using the builder to customize it and sets the proxy to be used for sending the HTTP request to http://books.toscrape.com/. Make sure you replace YOUR_PROXY_ADDRESS, PORT, YOUR_USERNAME and YOUR_PASSWORD with your credentials for the ProxyTee service. For additional information you can check the multiple protocol support feature of ProxyTee.

Why Choose ProxyTee?

ProxyTee stands out as a premier choice for anyone needing reliable, high-performance proxy solutions. Here are some compelling reasons to use ProxyTee:

Unlimited Bandwidth: ProxyTee’s unlimited bandwidth ensures you won’t face limitations or extra fees, regardless of the data you consume while scraping or streaming.
Extensive Global Coverage: With more than 20 million IP addresses across over 100 countries, ProxyTee’s global coverage is perfect for geo-targeting and collecting data from diverse locations.
Multiple Protocol Support: Supporting both HTTP and SOCKS5 protocols, ProxyTee ensures compatibility with many tools and applications.
User-Friendly Interface: The clean GUI of ProxyTee allows for a smooth start, even with minimal technical skills.
Auto Rotation: The auto-rotation feature changes your IP address at set intervals (3 to 60 minutes), a vital component for avoiding detection by target websites.
Simple API: For advanced users, the simple API enables easy integration into custom applications and automation workflows.
Affordable Pricing: ProxyTee is a highly cost-effective solution, offering prices that can be as much as 50% lower than the competitors.
Unlimited Residential Proxies: Unlimited Residential Proxies provide both quality and flexibility, crucial for all your web scraping and data-gathering needs. With features such as unlimited bandwidth, rotating residential proxies and geo/country targeting you won’t have to worry about the speed or the location.