How to set up a proxy in Octo Browser

Why Octo Browser needs a proxy

Each Octo Browser profile has a separate fingerprint. The proxy is the part that makes its network address separate as well.

Which proxy to use

Residential proxies with one sticky session per profile work for most accounts in Octo Browser. Use mobile proxies where the platform is used mainly on phones.

• Residentialfrom $2.64 per GB
• Mobilefrom $2.64 per GB

What to enter

A PiratProxies plan gives you four things: a host, a port, a username and a password. These are the values for Residential; the username and password are on your plan page.

As one line:

resi.piratproxies.com:8080:USERNAME:PASSWORD

The country and the session are chosen in the username, not in a separate setting. The generator on your plan page writes the username for you, and Targeting and sessions explains each part.

Steps

1. Create a profile, or open one for editing.
2. Go to the proxy setting and choose to add a new proxy and choose a custom proxy. Set the type to HTTP (port 8080) or SOCKS5 (port 1080).
3. Paste the whole line resi.piratproxies.com:8080:USERNAME:PASSWORD into the host field. The port, username and password fill in by themselves. If they do not, type them into their own fields.
4. Press the proxy check. It should come back with an IP address in the country you chose in the username.
5. Save the profile and start it. Open an IP-check page inside the profile to confirm the address once more.

Menu names can differ a little between versions of Octo Browser. The four values to enter are always the same.

Rotating or sticky

Give each Octo Browser profile a sticky session of its own, so the profile comes back from the same IP address each time it is opened. One profile, one session ID: a session ID shared by two profiles gives them the same address, which links them. Rotating on every request suits scraping, not an account that is meant to look like one person.

A sticky username looks like this:

USERNAME-country-us-time-600-session-a1b2c3d4

If it does not work

• Octo Browser can store proxies and reuse them. Give a stored proxy a name that says which profile it belongs to, so it is not attached twice.
• A 407 error means the username or password was not accepted. Copy both again from your plan page, and check that nothing added a space or cut the username short.
• If the IP address is in the wrong country, look at the username: the country code is part of it. More fixes.

Questions

Octo Browser is a product of its own makers. PiratProxies is not affiliated with it; the name is used here only to say what this guide is about. Use it within the rules of the sites you work with and our acceptable use policy.