Octoparse

Open the Octoparse application.
In the top-left menu hover over the New button, and click on Advanced Mode. For testing purposes, we are going to create a custom task.

In the Website field, indicate the website you would like to extract data from. For this test, we are going to use ip.smartproxy.com. Once you do that, hit the Save button.

You should now find yourself in your Task tab. To configure our proxies, select the Settings button.

In the pop-up menu, scroll down to Anti-blocking settings and checkmark the option to Use IP proxies. You should now be able to click on the Settings button.

In the Proxy Settings pop-up, define the proxy you would like to use. Unfortunately, Octoparse only offers IP:PORT based format to authenticate through a proxy network. For that particular reason, you will need to use our Whitelisted IP feature to skip the traditional username:password authentication when going through a proxy. You can whitelist your IP after logging into our dashboard here: https://dashboard.smartproxy.com/whitelisted-ips/.
Once you have your IP:PORT ready, select the Switch interval accoding to your session type. If you are using a rotating session type, set the interval to 1. If you are using a sticky session, set it to 600. Finally, hit the OK button.

To verify everything is working properly, look for a checkmark next to the Settings option under Anti-blocking Settings. Once you verify that, click Save to continue.

To extract data from our example page, click on the IP address that you can see at the top of the Octoparse application and select Extract text of the selected element.

Depending on how you want to run your task, select one of the available extraction options. For testing purposes, you can Run task on your device.

If done correctly, you should see our proxy IP in the extracted data table once the task is finished.