Buy the proxy route your workload actually needs

: "${DATABAY_PROXY_PASS:?Load DATABAY_PROXY_PASS from your secret store}"
# cURL URL-decodes --proxy-user once; %25 preserves literal % in routing values.
DATABAY_PROXY_USER='USERNAME-zone-residential'

curl --disable --silent --show-error --fail-with-body \
  --proxy 'http://gw.databay.co:8888' \
  --proxy-basic \
  --proxy-user "${DATABAY_PROXY_USER}:${DATABAY_PROXY_PASS}" \
  --connect-timeout 10 \
  --max-time 30 \
  'https://databay.com/what-is-my-ip/json'

import os
import sys
from urllib.parse import quote
import requests

username = quote("USERNAME-zone-residential", safe="")
password = quote(os.environ["DATABAY_PROXY_PASS"], safe="")
proxy_url = f"http://{username}:{password}@gw.databay.co:8888"
proxies = {"http": proxy_url, "https": proxy_url}

try:
    response = requests.get(
        "https://databay.com/what-is-my-ip/json",
        proxies=proxies,
        timeout=(10, 20),
    )
    response.raise_for_status()
    print(response.json())
except requests.exceptions.Timeout:
    print("Proxy check timed out within the configured request budget.", file=sys.stderr)
    raise SystemExit(1)
except requests.exceptions.RequestException:
    print("Proxy check failed; verify credentials, route availability, and destination permission.", file=sys.stderr)
    raise SystemExit(1)

import { fetch, ProxyAgent } from 'undici';

const password = process.env.DATABAY_PROXY_PASS;
if (!password) throw new Error('DATABAY_PROXY_PASS is required');

const username = 'USERNAME-zone-residential';
const dispatcher = new ProxyAgent({
  uri: 'http://gw.databay.co:8888',
  token: `Basic ${Buffer.from(`${username}:${password}`).toString('base64')}`,
});

try {
  const response = await fetch('https://databay.com/what-is-my-ip/json', {
    dispatcher,
    signal: AbortSignal.timeout(30_000),
  });
  if (!response.ok) throw new Error(`Unexpected HTTP status ${response.status}`);
  console.log(await response.json());
} catch (error) {
  const message = error instanceof Error && error.name === 'TimeoutError'
    ? 'Proxy check exceeded the 30 second deadline.'
    : 'Proxy check failed; verify credentials, route availability, and destination permission.';
  console.error(message);
  process.exitCode = 1;
} finally {
  await dispatcher.close();
}