This Docker image helps you start your own Squid proxy server, with HTTP Basic authorization. You may need this if you want your crawling/scaping software to look like constantly going to the Network from the same IP address. You rent a VPS, start a Squid server there and configure your software to go everywhere through an explicit HTTP(S) proxy.

When Docker is installed, run this:

$ docker run --name proxy --detach --restart=always --publish 8081:3128 \
  --env USERNAME=jeffrey --env PASSWORD=swordfish \
  yegor256/squid-proxy

Or, you can use docker compose:

version: '3'
services:
  proxy:
    image: yegor256/squid-proxy
    restart: always
    ports:
      - "8081:3128"
    environment:
      - USERNAME=jeffrey
      - PASSWORD=swordfish

Now you can connect to localhost:8081 with jeffrey:swordfish credentials. For example:

curl -vvv --proxy http://jeffrey:swordfish@0.0.0.0:8081 https://google.com/

Or, with httpie:

http --proxy=http:http://jeffrey:swordfish@0.0.0.0:8081 https://google.com/

BTW, the proxy is anonymous. Once it's up and running, you can check whether it's visible, here. It also doesn't store any logs and doesn't cache any content.

Build it locally:

docker build . -t squid-proxy:latest

Want to push to a local machine?

docker save squid-proxy | ssh -C your@machine docker load