Most tools that take a proxy address connect as they are.
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Node.js
Puppeteer
Selenium
Scrapy
cURL
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Puppeteer
Selenium
Scrapy
cURL
Postman
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Postman
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Chrome
Minimal personal data, clear usage rules
A ProxyMay account is one access token. The server stores a hash of it, its last four characters and your top-up records, never the token itself.
Use it only for legitimate work like collecting public information, verifying ads and checking how pages look by region. It can't be used to break into other people's accounts or to send spam.
One token per account
Token stored as a hash
Legitimate use only
Residential Proxy Guide: From Choosing a Product to Your First Request
Everything a new ProxyMay user needs in one place: picking a product, targeting a location, using sessions, working out costs and getting connected.
What is a residential proxy and how does ProxyMay work?
ProxyMay is a residential proxy service that puts home IPs, mobile carrier IPs, static ISP and datacenter IPs on one balance.
A residential proxy sends your request through an IP that an internet provider assigned to an ordinary household. The target site sees that home address instead of your server, so you get the same pages, prices and search results a local visitor would get.
The setup is simple. Every request goes to one gateway, gate.proxymay.com:7000, and the username decides which IP you get. The username starts with user and adds the options you want, joined with -. The password is the access token you received at sign-up. On the tool side that means four fields: host, port, username and token.
type-mobile: use an IP on a carrier mobile network
country-jp: pick a country by its two-letter code
city-tokyo: pick a city in lowercase, with _ for spaces
session-shop1: the same name keeps the same IP for up to 120 minutes
HTTP and SOCKS5 both run on the same gateway, so choose whichever your tool supports.
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How to choose the right proxy product for the job
The four products differ in where the IP comes from and how you pay for it. Start with one question: can the IP change during the job, or does it have to stay the same for a long time?
Product
IP source
Billing
Best for
Rotating residential proxies
Ordinary home IPs
From $0.80/GB
Public data collection, SEO rank checks, ad verification
Static ISP proxies
Same IP for a whole month
From $3.00 per IP
Your own accounts, allowlisting, checkout testing
Datacenter proxies
Datacenter IPs
From $1.20 per IP
High-volume lookups on sites with light blocking
Mobile proxies
Carrier mobile network IPs
From $4.00/GB
Mobile ads and mobile page checks
Not sure yet? Start small with rotating residential proxies. If the target site accepts your traffic easily and speed matters more, move to datacenter proxies. If you need to stay logged in for long stretches, move to static ISP proxies. Datacenter proxies are available in 18 countries and mobile proxies in 56 countries.
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New IP per request vs sticky session
By default, rotating residential proxies give you a new IP on every request. For jobs that read thousands of public pages, requests spread over many addresses and no single IP carries the load.
Some jobs break when the address changes halfway: logins, carts, multi-step forms. For those, add session- plus a name to the username. Names use letters and digits, up to 16 characters, and as long as you reuse the same name you keep the same IP for up to 120 minutes.
Mode
Username example
Fits
New IP per request
user-country-us
Collecting listing pages, bulk lookups
Sticky session
user-country-us-session-cart7
Work after a login, step-by-step page checks
Same IP all month
Static ISP proxies
Keeping a steady login location per account
Give each job its own session name and each job gets its own IP. Numbered names like session-a1 and session-a2 let you run several jobs at once without them mixing.
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Country and city targeting takes one line in the username
ProxyMay lets you target IPs in 60 countries and 175 cities. All targeting lives in the username, so you change regions by editing a string, not your tool settings.
The first line gives a German home IP, the second a New York home IP, and the third holds a Tokyo IP in a session. The last line uses a UK carrier mobile IP; mobile proxies target down to the country level. Write city names in lowercase and replace spaces with underscores.
To confirm the setup, run the curl check from your dashboard. If the response from https://ipinfo.io/json shows the country and city you asked for, you're set. See the city list for every country on coverage.
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Four connection formats and your first test request
The dashboard shows the same login details in four formats. Check which fields your program expects and copy the matching one.
Format
Shape
Typical use
HTTP URL
http://user:token@host:port
Python requests, Node.js, most scraping tools
SOCKS5 URL
socks5://user:token@host:port
Browser automation and other tools that take SOCKS5
If the result shows Japan and Tokyo, you're ready. If the location is off, check the username spelling first, especially lowercase city names and underscores. If the connection is refused, the most common cause is a token pasted incorrectly.
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Recommended products and settings by job
The right settings depend on the job. Here are starting points for the most common ones; adjust region and session length as you see results.
Job
Product
Example setting
Public data collection
Rotating residential
user-country-us, no session, new IP per request
Ad verification
Rotating residential or mobile
user-country-gb-city-london; for mobile ads user-type-mobile-country-gb
SEO rank checks
Rotating residential
user-country-de-city-berlin, new IP per query
Price monitoring
Datacenter or rotating residential
Datacenter for lightly protected sites, user-country-fr for regional prices
Localization testing
Rotating residential
user-country-jp-city-osaka-session-test1 to browse several pages on one IP
Managing your own accounts
Static ISP
One IP per account, the same IP all month
For daily jobs like price monitoring that read the same pages, a steady request interval keeps the load on the target site low. Localization testing checks whether language, currency and shipping notes change by region, so results are more accurate when the IP holds while you move from page to page.
Ad verification often means viewing the same ad from several cities in turn. Keep a ready list of usernames that differ only by city and repeat runs go faster. Rank checks work the same way: fix your country and city pairs, use a new IP per query, and results won't lean on one address's history.
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One balance for all four products: a worked cost example
ProxyMay doesn't bill each product separately. Top up once and every product draws from that balance. Rotating residential and mobile proxies are charged per GB of traffic used; static ISP and datacenter proxies are charged per IP.
Say you top up $200. The 25% bonus is added as a separate line, so your balance becomes $250. You could split it like this:
100 GB of rotating residential at $0.80/GB comes to $80
10 static ISP IPs at $3.00 per IP come to $30
20 GB of mobile at $4.00/GB comes to $80
That's $190 spent, and the remaining $60 stays for your next job
Balance, daily usage and top-up history sit on one dashboard screen. Since per-GB usage depends on page size, watch usage for the first day or two and set your tool to skip resources you don't need, like images and video. The same balance then covers noticeably more pages.
When your mix of work changes, there's nothing to reallocate. Spend more on rotating residential in a heavy collection month and more on static ISP when account work grows, all from the same balance. Bonus tiers and payment details are on proxy pricing.
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Rules for safe and lawful proxy use
ProxyMay is built for public data collection, ad verification, SEO rank checks, price monitoring, website and localization testing, and managing your own accounts.
Accessing someone else's account without permission is not allowed
Spam, fraud, attacks and illegal content are forbidden
So is anything that breaks the law or violates a target site's rights
Good habits in practice: read the target site's terms first, keep request rates reasonable, and leave pages with personal data out of your collection. Your access token is both your login password and your proxy password, so keep it out of code repositories and shared documents. The server stores only a hash of the token and its last 4 characters, so a lost token cannot be recovered. Full rules are in the terms of service.
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Get started with ProxyMay in 4 steps
Getting connected is quick. Follow these steps and you can send your first request right away.
1Sign up and you receive one access token starting with pm_.
2Save the token somewhere safe, like a password manager. It can't be shown again, so this step matters most.
3Top up the balance you need on the pricing page. A small first amount is plenty.
4Copy the address format you need from the dashboard into your tool, then run the curl check to confirm the IP and location.
Connection examples for Python, Node.js, curl and more are in the quick start.
Sign up now and connect through IPs in the countries you need
Signing up takes one token. Top up from $20 and start right away.