turbolapp

I'm having the same issues.

mattseh

Windows XP? What service pack?

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AllBizNiz

I'm running SP2

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mattseh

Did you apply the TCPIP.sys patch mentioned earlier in the thread? That allows lots of connections to be made.

planetlab / codeen proxies are unwanted as they are logged and don't allow POST requests.

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agua

Not sure if this is possible, or even if you want to do it but is there a way of showing which country the proxy is from in proxy.txt?

picky, I know - sos

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Any chance of making available a free opensource version for linux? Perhaps slightly crippled. I know there might be some others out there but I don't feel like digging around every nook and cranny of the interweb.

A lot of software vendors hold this philosophy, they make a free linux version and a paid windows version of thair app.

erect

^^ $25 tough guy, works fine on my linux .. pay the man what he's worth

guerilla

So because you are lazy, he should give away his work for free?

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Moxxy

oops... I wrote a tool like a couple of years back with geoIp, anonymity level filter, response time moving averages, content modification detection, pluggable sources etc...

I never bothered to release it because I assumed there'd be heaps of tools out there like that... Mattseh for v2 I'd suggest adding response time MA's... That's definitely been the most useful feature of my own tool. One off response times vary enormously and aren't really useful for choosing reliable proxies from the list. Once I switched to scoring with MA's the amount of requests I could pull through skyrocketed.

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nordie

I really like the simplicity of the software.

I just wish that in future versions there is a way to lower the attrition rate when I move proxies (within minutes) from the tool to another tool like Scrapebox or others that use proxies.

I'd happily pay more for an interim upgrade if the attrition rate could be lowered.

The response time moving averages suggestion that Moxxy made above sounds like a really good idea.

extor

I'm sure it works in wine but I was looking for something that I could tweak for my own reasons, one of them being an xrumer proxy harvesting tool.

No, because I am cheap and somewat ambitious is why he should give away a crippled version of his work for free. If I were that lazy I wouldn't have bothered learning linux and wouldn't be wasting time trying to duct tape my own proxy harvesting framework together. Lazy people generally tend to use windows over linux and hate customizing their systems especially where those customizations involve a little coding. I don't blame him for charging people $25 and just selling them a bytecode binary though, that's his prerogative but I need tweakable source code for my project.

Moxxy

If you've got the source code how is it crippled? You can just uncripple it.

The guy is earning bank of a well designed product, why would he want to give the keys to the business to some numpty who's best argument is "because I'm cheap"?

You've just made open source a little bit less sexy...

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gutterseo

hey extor you really want one for free just code your own :P

extor

He's already giving out the proggy to linux users in python bytecode format as you would know had you actually read this post. It would be trivial for him to repackage it into a combined binary + source package which would allow people to integrate it into the proxy scraping subsystems of apps such as xrumer and LFE. If they like it they will pay him for an enhanced version with more features compiled in.

He makes bank selling a compiled windows binary to windows users. I doubt more than 5% of his sales are to linux users who by nature like to tinker and tweak their software a lot more than windows users do. According to you my plan might be to steelz his leenux codez and then hax0r me a windows version of the proggy and steelz all his market share? Doesn't work that way in the real world.

I've already got one that comes with xrumer, was just looking to enhance it's functionality but there are supposed to be other open source proxy scraping scripts out there but they have also been abandoned by their original creators so you can't really pay the original coder to mod or tweak it.

mattseh

Moving averages is a rerally good idea, thanks.

I've had zero spare time recently, but should have some time soon to make an updated version, geoip is on the list.

extor:



If you can't write a script to take the output of the tool and be able to afford $25, I have no idea how you plan on being able to write complex tools, or use them for that matter. The bytecode works fine with "python proxyfinder.pyc". No wine required.

Maybe I should release the source at BHW?

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Dispel

Seeing as I'm coming out with all the noob questions today..

Is there an advantage in using this over Charon? As far as I understand both grab public proxies. But Charon can easily filter out the non-anons and the SOCKS proxies and can be used to recheck the already scraped lists and shows geo locations etc.

So is there's any advantage in switching to this tool? My primary use of proxies is for Scrapebox, btw.

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extor

I don't want to write a complex tool, as I mentioned already I just want to duct tape tools written by other people. I've got xrumer and I've taken a cursory look at how engine.php works with it's list.txt input file. Was thinking of just plopping an url to an .html file as #1 in my list.txt and that .html file would be the very same "text" file that proxychecker spits it's results to. This way I could shorten xr's harvesting time to seconds and also ease the CPU overhead of my blasting box since proxychecker would already have done most of the work by cherrypicking a fresh list every 5 minutes.

I don't really need the source to make it do what I want it to do I guess but having a free crippled version of this intriguing mystery of a program would make me more likely to try it out for the purpose I just mentioned. I might just buy it anyway but I'm just saying that there might be people like me out there who want to test drive an app before buying rather than just relying on the ooohs and aaahs of other customers.

Moxxy

for fuck sake it's 25 fucking dollars! If you actually place any value on your time you've probably wasted more than that begging on this thread.

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erect

I do this, just shoot a $_POST to some site of yours and save the proxies. Then just change the botmaster proxy url in xrum to your output page.

I get what you're saying with the source & stuff (big open source nut here), but some products just aren't going to go this route. If they're inexpensive enough (how much of your time is $25 worth?) then just accept it and move on with your life. The only real value open sourcing this would have is to repackage it with other programs, you can see why mattseh would be reluctant to have that happen.

eliquid

what about this talk of the proxies that are working coming back as non anom?

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a+++ nice work matt....

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Moxxy

being paranoid I tend to test anonymity on every proxy (even if I own it) immediately before using. If not grab another one.

not hard to do, just plant a php script on one of your hosts that dumps all the HTTP headers to the page, hit it and then regex the response for your ip address.

Probably also worth checking for the presence of the HTTP_VIA header, even if the proxy is anon it indicates that there is a proxy in use.

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mattseh

HTTP_VIA is stripped out by my tool. I've found that some proxies were returning a phpinfo() page, which happened to have all the right info to report a proxy as working and anonymous, but was useless. This new version now blocks out proxies that return phpinfo() pages:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2326797/PFV4.zip

This version also allows you to specify the maximum response time allowed ("proxytimeout"). The default now is to get proxies that have been found to be working in the last 10 minutes. This can be changed by adjusting "proxystaleseconds". I also filtered out a lot of crappy sources from the default source list.

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mattseh

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2326797/PFV5.zip

new version, only change is that the requests to the judge scripts are now POST, not GET, which seems to improve the quality of proxies gathered, as some only show errors (like codeen) when it is a POST request.

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Boomstick

Just bought a license. Looking forward to testing it out. Thanks!

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Grindstone

This tool kicks ass and Matt's support is top notch. If you're running XP SP3, this patch fixed my shit right up.

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Thanks for the great tool at an unbelievable price!

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efeezy

I picked this up today and it's a very cool little program. I can't get it running on my Win 7 PC, but I did manage to get it going on my XP laptop.

If someone could give me a few tips to get it running on a server, I'd appreciate it.

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barman

looks legit. will buy once my plans for world domination are in place

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meutuber

just place an order. made payment, all transaction details sent to your pm.

mattseh

All of the latest orders delivered, I'm taking feature requests for a new version, thanks

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webetricky

just ordered, can't wait to give it a go. PM'd details.

PPV Baller

So this tool can find proxies to use with Scrapebox as well right?

AllBizNiz

It finds proxies which in turn can be used with any program that supports them.

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Boomstick

Been using it and its decent. If you let it run for a few hours it'll find 100-200 proxies. Quality of the proxies is medium. Overall, I'm satisfied.

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speed-racer

Is the software still available and is it the "new" version that was discussed?

Thanks...

mattseh

Yes it is still available, it's currently at version 5, I'm not sure what you're referring to with the new version?

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igl00

btw a good thing could be 'going deep to find proxies'. aka it goes from page u give to deeper page to seek. thats a cool idea i think

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Rexibit

Good Stuff. I added a few dozen more sources than the 5-7 that come with it and it's walking through them all incrementally every few minutes. I expected "Seen Proxies" to go up, but I guess those are what it is checking against.

Overall, very nice.

I would like to have the option of saving the list to multiple locations. That way I could have it go to the main folder and also to any other program which uses a different naming convention. I don't need that right now, but it'd be a nice feature for when I do.

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HustlinHard

What version are you on now mattseh?


and how long are the proxies lasting for you guys now?

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Sticks79

Have you got a new version happening Matt? If so, yet to receive it via email...

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mattseh

V5 is the latest version at this time, download link: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2326797/PFV5.zip

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bizzykehl

Yo Mr. Bell, I just purchased your softwares, I realize it's like 5 am in the UK but when you get the chance can you please activate my application? thank thou very mucheth.

Sticks79

Ok cool, already have V5.

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mattseh

Approved for approval!

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cachemoney

i've read up on all the comments on the differences between this and SB's proxy scraping capabilities and i see that you provide a proxy site(thats diff than the ones included with SB?) for us to scrape with.

are proxy sites easy to find? Is it as easy spending an afternoon using google to find these types of sites?

mattseh

Yes, any sites that list proxies in the form ip : port can be scraped. people using this software have used scrapebox to scrape for proxy sites, with good results. Obviously, they don't want to share their sources

Some sources are included, which give me decent results.

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jmacek07

I purchased but have not received any download link. Can you check into this plz?

jmacek07

Got the download link..Thanks man!