Axios Proxy Configuration

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Axios is the most popular JavaScript HTTP client, with a promise-based API and support for Node.js and browsers. Use Axios with ProxyMesh for web scraping, API clients, and anonymous requests.

The javascript-proxy-headers package provides createProxyAxios(), which wraps Axios and supports sending custom proxy headers (e.g. X-ProxyMesh-Country) during HTTPS CONNECT and reading X-ProxyMesh-IP from responses.

Installation

npm install axios javascript-proxy-headers

Or from JSR: npx jsr add @proxymesh/javascript-proxy-headers then npm install axios.

Basic Proxy Configuration

Use createProxyAxios() with your ProxyMesh proxy URL. All requests go through the proxy and can use a different IP each time:

import { createProxyAxios } from 'javascript-proxy-headers/axios';

const client = createProxyAxios({
  proxy: 'http://username:password@proxyhost:31280'
});

const response = await client.get('https://api.ipify.org?format=json');
console.log(response.data);        // { "ip": "..." }
console.log(response.headers['x-proxymesh-ip']);  // IP used by proxy

With IP authentication (whitelist your server IP in the dashboard), omit credentials:

const client = createProxyAxios({
  proxy: 'http://proxyhost:port'
});

Custom Proxy Headers

Pass proxyHeaders to send custom headers to the proxy during HTTPS CONNECT (e.g. to select a country with world proxy or open proxy):

import { createProxyAxios } from 'javascript-proxy-headers/axios';

const client = createProxyAxios({
  proxy: 'http://username:password@proxyhost:31280',
  proxyHeaders: { 'X-ProxyMesh-Country': 'US' }
});

const response = await client.get('https://httpbin.org/ip');
console.log(response.headers['x-proxymesh-ip']);

ProxyMesh Headers Reference

Send these headers to control proxy behavior:

  • X-ProxyMesh-Country - Route through a specific country (e.g., "US"). Only works with world proxy or open proxy
  • X-ProxyMesh-IP - Request a specific outgoing IP address
  • X-ProxyMesh-Not-IP - Exclude specific IPs from rotation

The proxy returns X-ProxyMesh-IP in the response with the IP address used.

Resources

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