Anyone Proxy

The Anyone Proxy is live on NPM! It allows you to tunnel calls on your command line (Terminal on Mac, CommandPrompt or PowerShell on Windows).

Installation

Installing the @anyone-protocol package (see Install NPM Package) gives you access to the anyone-proxy command too, from all folders where the package is installed.

Start a Socks5 proxy

In a separate terminal window, run the anon client and ensure it bootstraps to 100%.

npx anyone-client

Running

Typically, you need to prepend npx anyone-proxy before existing command line calls:

npx anyone-proxy <your command>

macOS note

Note: due to the nature of ProxyChains, which is the underlying library behind the anyone-proxy, command line applications that are pre-installed on macOS (e.g., cURL) will not automatically route through the network. However, manually installing cURL, or using alternatives, will route through. To ensure all applications tunnel traffic through the network, see Connect to Anyone

Additional Arguments

These are additional arguments to configure verbosity on the command line, connection types, and more. These commands can typically be chained.

-q Quiet mode - suppresses ProxyChains connection messages.

npx anyone-proxy -q <your command>

-f <file> Use a specific configuration file instead of the default

npx anyone-proxy -f ./my-proxy.conf <your command>

When -f is not defined the default proxy configuration is:

strict_chain
proxy_dns
remote_dns_subnet 224

tcp_read_time_out 15000
tcp_connect_time_out 8000
localnet 127.0.0.0/255.0.0.0

[ProxyList]
socks5 127.0.0.1 9050

Default Configuration Breakdown

• strict_chain:

  • ProxyChains will use proxies in the order listed in [ProxyList] without skipping any

  • If one proxy in the chain fails, the connection fails

  • Alternative is dynamic_chain which skips dead proxies

• proxy_dns:

  • DNS requests will also go through the proxy chain

  • Without this, DNS might leak your real IP

• remote_dns_subnet 224:

  • Uses a subnet to prevent DNS leaks (224 is a common value)

  • Helps prevent correlation of DNS requests with your real IP

• tcp_read_time_out 15000:

  • Sets TCP read timeout to 15 seconds (15000 ms)

• tcp_connect_time_out 8000:

  • Sets TCP connection timeout to 8 seconds (8000 ms)

• localnet 127.0.0.0/255.0.0.0:

  • Defines local network addresses that won't be proxied

  • This particular setting excludes all 127.x.x.x addresses (localhost)

• [ProxyList] section:

  • Defines the actual proxies to use

  • In this case, it's using a Anon SOCKS5 proxy on localhost port 9050

  • You can define multiple proxies in this list.

Example on how to use

File download:

npx anyone-proxy -q wget -O example.file https://check.en.anyone.tech/api/ip   

To verify the command was processed through the Anyone Network, check the contents of the downloaded file by typing cat example.file, you should see something like: "IsAnon":true,"IP":"49.224.34.19"}

Coming Soon

• Reference examples and tutorials

• Further chaining and combinations!