Common Targeting Syntax Mistakes

Explanation of targeting syntax mistakes when using proxy

Intro

This article will explain how to adhere to correct proxy targeting syntax and avoid common mistakes when doing so.

Most of GoProxies syntax follows this rule: dashes for starting the flag, dash for what you’re targeting, and underscores for specification and titles with more than one word.

Country

You simply need to add a country-<countryName> tag to your proxy commands to target countries. For example, to target USA you add country-us , so it would look like this:

curl --proxytunnel --proxy "https://customer-USERNAME-country-us:[e-mail]:1080" https://ip.goproxies.com

All country abbreviations are the same as per ip2location website, You can easily retrieve these abbreviations here under each country, specified under ISO-3166-1 Alpha-2: https://www.ip2location.com/country-list

State/Province

To target a state or a province, you need to declare a state flag, then add the country, e.g state-us and state name itself preceded by an underscore, e.g state-us_california

For example, to target a us state: state-us_florida

Similarily for provinces or regions, lets say Ontario province in Canada:

state-ca_ontario

City

You don’t need to chain a whole list of flags to target a specific city. All cities in our database come with the country information added to them.

If, for example, you’d like to target Berlin in Germany, you would need a city-de_berlin,

or for Los Angeles, USA it would be city-us_los_angeles.

Full cURL example:

curl --proxytunnel --proxy "https://customer-USERNAME-city-us_los_angeles:[e-mail]:1080" https://ip.goproxies.com