Getting Started

Learn the basics of using Mobile Proxies for your project. See how to test proxy connections, choose the geo-location, and control your sessions.

Make a request to https://ip.oxylabs.io/location using a mobile proxy from a random location through our backconnect entry. Replace USERNAME and PASSWORD with your proxy user credentials. Keep in mind that each request returns a new IP address as Oxylabs Mobile Proxies rotate automatically.

Use ip.oxylabs.io/location to check the parameters of your IPs—this domain delivers information from four geolocation databases: MaxMind, IP2Location, DB-IP, and IPinfo.io. The parameters include IP address, provider, country, city, ZIP code, ASN, organization name, time zone, and meta (when disclosed by database).

curl -x pr.oxylabs.io:7777 -U "customer-USERNAME:PASSWORD" https://ip.oxylabs.io/location

Our Mobile Proxies support HTTP, HTTPS, and SOCKS5 protocols. You can learn more about using them here.

Now make a request using a proxy from France. All you need to do is add cc-FR to your username string. Below is an example in cURL, and here you can find code samples in other languages.

curl -x pr.oxylabs.io:7777 -U "customer-USERNAME-cc-FR:PASSWORD" https://ip.oxylabs.io/location

If you need to keep the same proxy for more than one request, use session control. Add sessid-abc12345 to your username string, where abc12345 can be any random string, and as long as you keep sending requests with this string (session ID), you will get the same proxy IP. Learn more here.

curl -x pr.oxylabs.io:7777 -U "customer-USERNAME-sessid-randomString123:PASSWORD" https://ip.oxylabs.io/location

You can also set up Mobile Proxies using the Endpoint generator.

If you have any additional questions, please contact your account manager or our support team at [email protected].