Proxy Servers with API Access

Create one in your Dashboard — it takes a couple of clicks after you sign in. The key and the API's base URL are shown there; use them in your scripts or automation tools. Authentication details and request examples are documented at api.papaproxy.net/docs.

Everything operates on the package, not the address. One API call returns the full list — 10,000 IPs export the same way 100 do; IP whitelisting is configured once and covers every address in the package; a refresh swaps out addresses server-side and the next export already contains the replacements. The piece you own is distribution: your software decides which slice of the list goes to which worker or project. A practical pattern is to fetch the list at the start of every run rather than on a schedule — that way a refresh can never leave a long-running job holding retired addresses.

No — the words are nearly identical, the products aren't, and search results mix them constantly. An API proxy or API gateway (Apigee, Kong, AWS API Gateway) sits in front of your own backend and manages traffic coming in to your API: routing, authentication, rate limiting. What this page describes is the reverse pairing: a management API for a proxy service — REST endpoints for controlling your proxy account programmatically, plus the proxy addresses themselves for sending traffic out. If you landed here looking for infrastructure to publish your own API behind, you want a gateway product. If you need outbound IP addresses your code can manage without a human in the Dashboard, you're in the right place.

Yes, and it's one of the most common setups here. API traffic is ordinary HTTP, so proxies for API requests work exactly like proxies for web pages: pass the proxy endpoint URL — login:password@IP:port — to your HTTP client, and calls to the third-party service leave from the proxy address. The usual reasons are per-IP rate limits (a package spreads your calls across many addresses, so no single IP hits the ceiling) and geo-restricted APIs that only answer from specific countries. One caution: distributing requests to evade a per-account quota — as opposed to a per-IP limit — usually violates the target service's terms, and that's on you, not on the proxy.

Four things, checkable before you pay. Documentation that's public — if the docs sit behind a signup wall, you can't verify the API covers your workflow until you've already committed. Coverage of the write operations, not just reads: exporting a list is table stakes; updating whitelisting rules and renewing plans from a script is what actually removes the human from the loop. Export flexibility — an API that returns one hardcoded format still leaves you writing a converter. And pricing: at some providers API access is an enterprise tier; here it's included with every plan. A five-minute read of a provider's API docs against that list tells you more than any comparison article.

Yes. IP whitelisting is required on every plan, and you can change whitelisted addresses in the Dashboard or through the API. If your provider assigns a new public IP, one API call restores access; you can also run that update from a script on the server or router. See the FAQ on working with a dynamic IP.

Yes — rotating plans are managed through the same API and MCP endpoints. There is no fixed IP list to export; billing is request-based, and the exit IP rotates on every request. For datacenter packages and static ISP plans, the API also handles list exports and whitelist updates.