19 live verified HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS4 and SOCKS5 proxies across 1 countries. Refreshed every 5 minutes. Filter, copy, and download.
curl 'https://databay.com/api/v1/proxy-list?format=json&limit=5'import requests
proxies = requests.get('https://databay.com/api/v1/proxy-list?limit=5').json()
print(proxies['data'][0]) # {'ip': ..., 'port': ..., 'country': ...}const res = await fetch('https://databay.com/api/v1/proxy-list?limit=5');
const { data } = await res.json();
console.log(data[0]); // { ip, port, country, protocol, ssl, latency_ms, ... }Last verification completed
The free list above churns every 5 minutes and most entries fail within hours. For production scraping in South Africa, Databay operates 592,536+ paid IPs with 99.9%+ uptime, sticky sessions up to 120 minutes, and full HTTP / HTTPS / SOCKS5 from a flat $0.55/GB (Flex).
As of (UTC) · daily snapshot
This product includes GeoLite2 Data created by MaxMind, available from https://www.maxmind.com.
| AS number | Network | Proxies observed |
|---|---|---|
| AS328471 | Hero-Telecoms | 7 |
| AS37403 | INFOGRO | 4 |
| AS36937 | Neotel-AS | 3 |
| AS37100 | SEACOM-AS | 2 |
| AS5713 | SAIX-NET | 1 |
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Stable, unauthenticated, CORS-open. Safe to hardcode in scripts, CI and tutorials. Plain text, one IP:PORT per line.
https://databay.com/free-proxy-list/south-africa.txtcurl -s https://databay.com/free-proxy-list/south-africa.txtwget -qO proxies.txt https://databay.com/free-proxy-list/south-africa.txtimport requests
proxies = requests.get("https://databay.com/free-proxy-list/south-africa.txt", timeout=10).text.splitlines()Per-protocol: http.txt · https.txt · socks4.txt · socks5.txt · per-country: /free-proxy-list/<country>.txt (e.g. united-states-of-america.txt) · also on GitHub/jsDelivr.
Last updated: · 19 live proxies · updated every 5 minutes
| IP Address | Port | Country | Protocol | SSL | Anonymity | Speed | Uptime | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 148.251.68.232 Click to copy | 8888 |  South Africa | SOCKS5 | ✓ | Elite | 1330ms | 100% | 4 minute(s) |
| 196.251.131.87 Click to copy | 8080 | South Africa | HTTP/S | ✗ | Transparent | 887ms | 100% | 3 minute(s) |
| 174.138.162.237 Click to copy | 8254 | South Africa | HTTP/S | ✓ | Elite | 4046ms | 100% | 4 minute(s) |
| 196.251.222.229 Click to copy | 8080 | South Africa | HTTP/S | ✓ | Transparent | 3889ms | 100% | 4 minute(s) |
| 102.221.118.74 Click to copy | 8080 | South Africa | HTTP/S | ✗ | Transparent | 6662ms | 100% | 2 minute(s) |
| 102.66.176.109 Click to copy | 9999 | South Africa | HTTP/S | ✓ | Transparent | 1967ms | 100% | 24 minute(s) |
| 129.232.148.138 Click to copy | 1080 | South Africa | SOCKS5 | ✓ | Elite | 1366ms | 100% | 54 minute(s) |
| 160.226.138.129 Click to copy | 5678 | South Africa | SOCKS4 | ✓ | Elite | 4908ms | 100% | 1 hour(s) |
| 196.216.134.71 Click to copy | 8865 | South Africa | HTTP/S | ✓ | Transparent | 4785ms | 100% | 3 minute(s) |
| 196.251.221.30 Click to copy | 8080 | South Africa | HTTP/S | ✗ | Transparent | 8343ms | 100% | 3 minute(s) |
| 4.221.164.109 Click to copy | 9443 | South Africa | HTTP/S | ✓ | Elite | 4603ms | 99% | 3 minute(s) |
| 102.217.190.157 Click to copy | 7080 | South Africa | SOCKS5 | ✓ | Elite | 3319ms | 94% | 42 minute(s) |
| 168.253.92.93 Click to copy | 10808 | South Africa | SOCKS5 | ✓ | Elite | 4529ms | 93% | 42 minute(s) |
| 41.162.162.142 Click to copy | 4153 | South Africa | SOCKS4 | ✗ | Elite | 6762ms | 87% | 42 minute(s) |
| 105.27.180.194 Click to copy | 1080 | South Africa | SOCKS4 | ✗ | Elite | 5521ms | 86% | 9 minute(s) |
| 169.239.45.51 Click to copy | 4153 | South Africa | SOCKS4 | ✓ | Elite | 3948ms | 78% | 9 minute(s) |
| 196.223.129.21 Click to copy | 80 | South Africa | HTTP/S | ✗ | Elite | 6951ms | 67% | 4 minute(s) |
| 196.216.133.18 Click to copy | 1080 | South Africa | SOCKS4 | ✗ | Elite | 6736ms | 60% | 1 hour(s) |
| 217.29.209.22 Click to copy | 8865 | South Africa | HTTP/S | ✓ | Transparent | 1430ms | 50% | 34 minute(s) |
These are public, third-party proxies. For reliable speed, uptime, and privacy, use our Premium Residential Proxies.
The same live-verified proxy pool, mirrored open-source as JSON / TXT / CSV on the jsDelivr CDN. Auto-updated every 5 minutes via CI, MIT licensed, no API key, no rate limit beyond jsDelivr's defaults.
How this list stacks up against the most-cited free proxy directories on the open web.
| Databay databay.com | Typical free-list APIs key-less JSON feeds | Static HTML directories legacy proxy lists | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Refresh cadence | Every 5 min | Every 5 min | Every 10 min |
| Live verified proxies | 19 | A few thousand | A few hundred displayed |
| Countries covered | 1 | Dozens | Dozens |
| Free API (no key) | JSON / CSV / TXT | JSON / CSV / TXT | No public API |
| Per-protocol pages | HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS4, SOCKS5 | HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS4, SOCKS5 | SOCKS4, SOCKS5 only |
| Per-country pages | All countries | All countries | No |
| 3-tier SSL state | Strict / Loose / None | Binary | Binary |
| Open-source on GitHub | 1,799 stars, MIT | No | No |
| License | MIT (mirror) | Proprietary | Proprietary |
Counts gathered from representative public free proxy directories on the date this page was rendered. Comparison is intended as an honest signal of category positioning, not a knock on any specific tool.
Live-verified free South Africa proxy list. 19 HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS4 and SOCKS5 proxies with IPs registered in South Africa, re-probed every 5 minutes. Each entry includes protocol, latency, uptime and Google reachability. Download as JSON, CSV, or plain text. Methodology: how we discover and verify entries.
Continuous probing, real-time verification, transparent metrics. Everything you need to pick a proxy that actually works.
Continuously probed every 5 minutes. Never stale.
Every proxy re-verified on a rolling 5-minute window.
Global coverage from IPs registered worldwide.
Stale entries drop on the next cycle. No dead proxies.
See what proxy users say about Databay's proxy infrastructure.
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Being a proxy newbie I needed more help than most users. Their support runs through Discord and it's top-notch. They answer quick and truly seem committed to giving the best experience - usually a reply within a couple of hours. I never once felt like I had to wait.
Talking about prices, it's the ideal and safe choice for work. Quality is top-notch, and I can recommend Databay for its stability and work speed.
Been using Databay for a while now and I've got nothing but good things to say. The proxies run smooth, rarely drop, and setup was pretty easy. All in all, really happy with it and wouldn't hesitate to point others their way.
The dashboard is simple and easy to navigate, though it's missing a few proxy locations - adding more options would definitely make it better. Overall, I'd personally recommend it.
A dependable service for various online tasks. The IP rotates with each request. Would recommend.
Found them while looking for proxies. They're good and easy to use, and the support is nice. A bit slow for Brazil, but overall I recommend them for most uses.
I have to say it pleasantly surprised me. What I like most is that the proxies rotate with every request. The geolocation isn't always perfectly precise, but I tested it with HttpClient and overall the experience has been good.
This page lists 19 live-verified free proxies with IPs registered in South Africa, covering HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS4 and SOCKS5 and re-probed every 5 minutes. Each row reports protocol, speed, uptime, Google reachability and anonymity (Elite or Anonymous). Free South Africa proxies suit geo-testing and light scraping; for production reliability see Databay's paid plans linked above. Browse other locations in the country directory, or open the worldwide free proxy list for the full proxy primer and SOCKS5 / HTTP protocol lists.
An open look at how Databay discovers, probes and scores every entry in this list.
Every proxy on this page is an IP and port harvested from publicly known proxy sources and then put through a continuous verification loop. Fresh batches land on this page within seconds of being re-probed, and every candidate is re-verified on a rolling 5-minute window. Any proxy whose most recent check is older than 6 hours is dropped from this list entirely, stale entries never appear, regardless of how the upstream feed behaves.
For each probe we open a real connection, issue a lightweight HTTP request and a targeted HTTPS request, and measure the end-to-end round-trip. The result drives three public columns:
HTTPS support is reported in three states, full (valid certificate chain), loose (works only with SSL verification disabled), and unsupported (HTTP destinations only).
Dead proxies are not kept on the page to inflate the count: if an entry stops responding, it disappears on the next cycle. That is why the list size shifts throughout the day. Machine-readable copies of this dataset (with the same fields) are available at /api/v1/proxy-list in json, csv and plain-text formats.
Via or X-Forwarded-For. Transparent proxies forward your real IP address to the destination server, they provide no anonymity and are mainly used for caching. Dedicated lists: elite, anonymous and transparent.curl -x http://IP:PORT https://example.com. For Python, use requests.get(url, proxies={"http": "http://IP:PORT", "https": "http://IP:PORT"}). In your browser, go to Settings > Network > Proxy and enter the IP and Port. Proxies marked “HTTPS” work with secure websites. Proxies marked “HTTP” only work with non-secure (http://) websites, if a proxy doesn’t seem to work, check whether you’re connecting to an HTTPS site with an HTTP-only proxy. Full setup walkthroughs: How to use a free proxy (cURL, Python, Node.js, Scrapy, Playwright).verify=False in Python, -k in cURL). A cross means the proxy only works with plain HTTP sites.https://databay.com/api/v1/proxy-list. It supports filtering by protocol, country, speed, and Google compatibility. Output formats include JSON, CSV, and plain text. The API is rate limited to 60 requests per minute per IP with 10-second caching. See the API documentation section below for details. Prefer a static file? Hotlink https://databay.com/free-proxy-list.txt - full list as plain text, refreshed every 5 minutes, no key, CORS-open.Real-time breakdown of our 19 active proxies by protocol, anonymity, and country.
South Africa 19Of 19 currently-live free proxies, 4 support SOCKS5, 5 support SOCKS4, 10 support HTTP, and 12 tunnel encrypted HTTPS traffic. The list spans 1 countries, led by South Africa (19). By anonymity, 12 are classified as Elite (high-anonymity), 0 as Anonymous, and 7 as Transparent. Last verification completed 176 seconds ago.
Access our free proxy list programmatically. Rate limited to 60 requests per minute per IP with 10-second caching.
GET https://databay.com/api/v1/proxy-list# Get all proxies (JSON)
curl "https://databay.com/api/v1/proxy-list"
# Filter by protocol and country
curl "https://databay.com/api/v1/proxy-list?protocol=socks5&country=US"
# Get US SOCKS5 proxies as CSV
curl "https://databay.com/api/v1/proxy-list?protocol=socks5&country=US&format=csv"
# Get fast, Google-compatible proxies as plain text
curl "https://databay.com/api/v1/proxy-list?google=true&speed=fast&format=txt"# Permanent plain-text files - one IP:PORT per line, refreshed every 5 minutes
https://databay.com/free-proxy-list.txt
https://databay.com/free-proxy-list/http.txt
https://databay.com/free-proxy-list/https.txt
https://databay.com/free-proxy-list/socks4.txt
https://databay.com/free-proxy-list/socks5.txt
# Per-country (canonical country slug)
https://databay.com/free-proxy-list/<country>.txt # e.g. /united-states-of-america.txtimport requests
# Fetch fast SOCKS5 proxies in Germany
resp = requests.get("https://databay.com/api/v1/proxy-list",
params={"protocol": "socks5", "country": "DE", "speed": "fast"})
data = resp.json()
for proxy in data["data"]:
print(f"{proxy['ip']}:{proxy['port']} - {proxy['latency']}ms")protocol string all http, https, socks4, socks5country string all ISO 2-letter code (US, DE, etc.)ssl string all strict (valid cert), loose (any HTTPS)google bool all true = Google-compatible onlyspeed string all fast, medium, slowformat string json json, csv, txtlimit int 500 1-1000 proxies per pagepage int 1 Pagination page numberLong-form technical guides covering the methodology, safety model, and setup behind this list.
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