Show HN: Proxy-benchmark – is it the proxy, the browser, or your machine?

Category: devtools

Tags: proxy, web-scraping, benchmarking, browser-automation, reproducibility

Score: 6.8/10 (Innovation: 6, Technical: 7, Documentation: 8, Utility: 6)

proxy-benchmark is a Python harness that isolates why web requests fail by running the same targets across controlled combinations of HTTP engines, proxy paths, browser configurations, and machines. It records every attempt as a JSONL row and generates reproducible tables, surfacing findings like exit warm-up effects and host-dependent success rates. The project is unusual for its methodological rigor and explicit handling of confounders in proxy and browser detection testing.

Target audience: backend devs, data engineers, web scraping engineers, devops

Repository: https://github.com/nodemaven/proxy-benchmark · Python · MIT · 31 stars

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