Proxy is one of the API Evangelist areas on the APIs.io network — a focused corner of the API landscape. The full area lives at proxy.apievangelist.com.
24 providers on the network work in this area, including Bright Data, Contour, SOAX, Bright Data, HTTP Toolkit, Crawlbase, and 18 more — each links out to that provider’s APIs, schemas, and governance artifacts.
Related areas: Caching and Service Mesh. Browse every area at areas.apis.io.
About this area
This is the index of API proxy, reverse proxy, forward proxy, and proxy middleware service and tooling repos being tracked by the API Evangelist network.
Related providers (24)
Network providers tagged for this area.
| Provider | Description | APIs | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bright Data | Bright Data is an Israeli web data platform and operator of the world's largest legitimate residential proxy network (400M+ IPs across 195 countries). The platform combines prox... | 17 | developing |
| Contour | A Kubernetes ingress controller using Envoy proxy that provides dynamic configuration updates and advanced routing capabilities for managing external access to services in a clu... | 9 | developing |
| SOAX | SOAX provides enterprise-grade proxy infrastructure and web data extraction APIs for developers and data teams. With 155M+ residential IPs, 33M+ mobile IPs, and 300K+ datacenter... | 5 | developing |
| Bright Data | Bright Data is a web data platform providing a global proxy network (residential, datacenter, ISP, mobile), pre-built Web Scraper APIs for 100+ sites, a SERP API, the Web Unlock... | 5 | developing |
| HTTP Toolkit | HTTP Toolkit is a beautiful, cross-platform, and open-source tool for debugging, testing, and building with HTTP(S) on Windows, Linux, and Mac. It provides a REST API for interc... | 4 | developing |
| Crawlbase | Crawlbase (formerly ProxyCrawl) is a web crawling and scraping platform that fetches any web page through a large rotating proxy network with optional headless-Chrome JavaScript... | 5 | thin |
| Zenscrape | Zenscrape is a web scraping API that returns the rendered HTML of any target URL while handling proxy rotation, headless-browser JavaScript rendering, geotargeting, and Cloudfla... | 2 | thin |
| Envoy | Envoy is a high-performance, open-source edge and service proxy designed for cloud-native applications and microservice architectures. It provides advanced load balancing, obser... | 15 | thin |
| Squid | Squid is a high-performance caching and forwarding HTTP web proxy used for content caching, access control, and bandwidth management. It supports HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, and other pro... | 6 | thin |
| SafeLine | SafeLine is an open-source self-hosted Web Application Firewall (WAF) and reverse proxy developed by Chaitin Technology that protects web applications and APIs from attacks incl... | 9 | thin |
| Apache HTTP Server | Apache HTTP Server (httpd) is the world's most widely used web server software. It serves static and dynamic content, acts as a reverse proxy and load balancer, and exposes a mo... | 3 | thin |
| Verdaccio | Verdaccio is an open-source, lightweight private npm proxy registry built in Node.js that enables organizations to host, cache, and manage packages privately. It implements the ... | 9 | thin |
| Sozu | Sōzu is an open-source, fast and lightweight HTTP reverse proxy written in Rust, designed for high-performance traffic management in immutable infrastructure environments. It is... | 3 | emerging |
| Oauth2-Proxy | oauth2-proxy is an open-source reverse proxy that provides authentication with Google, Azure, OpenID Connect, and many more identity providers. | 7 | emerging |
| Whistle | Whistle is a cross-platform HTTP, HTTPS, HTTP/2, WebSocket, and TCP debugging proxy built on Node.js. It enables developers to inspect, intercept, modify, and replay network tra... | 1 | emerging |
| Dev Proxy | Dev Proxy is a Microsoft command-line tool for simulating, testing, and debugging API interactions during development. | 3 | emerging |
| Tinyproxy | Tinyproxy is a lightweight, open-source HTTP/HTTPS proxy daemon designed for POSIX operating systems. It is ideal for use cases in embedded deployments, small networks, and envi... | 1 | emerging |
| Varnish Cache | Varnish Cache is a high-performance HTTP accelerator and reverse proxy designed for content-heavy dynamic websites and APIs. It sits in front of web servers and caches HTTP resp... | 3 | emerging |
| Pipy | Pipy is a high-performance, programmable network proxy designed for cloud, edge, and IoT environments. Written in C++ with an embedded JavaScript engine (PipyJS), it provides a ... | 1 | emerging |
| MOSN | MOSN (Modular Open Smart Network) is a cloud-native network proxy written in Go, open-sourced by Ant Group. It serves as a Service Mesh data plane and can function as L4/L7 load... | 1 | emerging |
| Privoxy | Privoxy is a non-caching web proxy with advanced filtering capabilities for enhancing privacy, modifying web page content, and managing cookies. | 1 | emerging |
| Proxyman | Proxyman is a modern, native macOS app for HTTP/HTTPS debugging proxy with advanced features for API development and testing. | 1 | emerging |
| Pomerium | Pomerium is an identity-aware reverse proxy that enables secure, zero-trust access to internal applications without a VPN. | 1 | minimal |
| Chocodata | Web-scraping REST API that returns structured JSON from a large catalog of target sites (e-commerce, search engines, social, real estate, finance, and more), with proxies, CAPTC... | 1 | minimal |
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