How to Set up Residential Proxies for Apify

Learn how to set up residential proxies on Apify.

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Apify integration:

1. Open Apify dashboard.

APIFY dashboard displaying 'Getting started with Apify' onboarding text and navigation sidebar in web UI.

2. Select your crawler by going into the Tasks section.

Tasks highlighted in red box on APIFY sidebar menu showing Dashboard, Actors, Schedules
example-imdb-crawler highlighted in red, showing actor apify/web-scraper in a dashboard table

3. Scroll down to the Proxy configuration and select Custom proxies.

Proxy configuration dropdown showing 'Custom proxies' highlighted and 'None' in field

4. In the text box, type in your preferred endpoint with your authentication credentials.

Text area showing http://myusername:mypassword@gate.smartproxy.com:7000 on a settings page labeled Custom proxies

5. Hit the Save button at the bottom of the website to save your connection settings. If everything is configured, click on the Save & Run button to ensure that everything is working correctly.

Save and Save & Run buttons shown in red-outlined box below "Custom data" and "Initial cookies" fields

That’s it, you’re good to go!

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