How to Set Up Proxies in Node.js Axios

const axios = require("axios");
const { HttpsProxyAgent } = require("https-proxy-agent");

const agent = new HttpsProxyAgent("http://user:pass@host:port");

axios.get("https://httpbin.org/ip", {
  httpAgent: agent,
  httpsProxyAgent: agent,
}).then((r) => console.log(r.data));

Axios ships a built-in proxy option, but it mishandles HTTPS-over-HTTP tunneling, so the reliable pattern is to attach an https-proxy-agent (or socks-proxy-agent) and set proxy: false to disable the native path. The agent embeds credentials in the URL, so authenticated residential and datacenter endpoints just work. For rotation, construct a new agent per request or per worker pointed at a rotating gateway.

Node.js Axios works cleanly with rotating backconnect endpoints — point it at a single gateway host and the provider rotates the exit IP for you.

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