Send your first request

Learn how to send your first request using Bright Data’s proxy products with easy-to-follow code examples in multiple programming languages.

This guide works for all the proxy products

1. Residential Proxy

2. Mobile Proxy

3. ISP Proxy

4. Datacenter Proxy

5. SERP API

6. Browser API

7. Web Unlocker API

To get started, you need your proxy credentials, your Username and Password along with the Host name. You can find these credentials in the Overview tab of the proxy product.

Code Examples

Once you have your proxy credentials, use the following code to send your first request:

cURL

curl "http://lumtest.com/myip.json" --proxy brd.superproxy.io:33335 --proxy-user brd-customer-<customer_id>-zone-<zone_name>:<zone_password>

The code above uses the residential proxy to send a request to http://lumtest.com/myip.json. It returns your IP information in a JSON format:

Output

{
  "ip": "ALLOCATED_IP",
  "country": "PK",
  "asn": {
    "asnum": 203020,
    "org_name": "HostRoyale Technologies Pvt Ltd"
  },
  "geo": {
    "city": "Islamabad",
    "region": "IS",
    "region_name": "Islamabad",
    "postal_code": "44040",
    "latitude": 33.7233,
    "longitude": 73.0435,
    "tz": "Asia/Karachi",
    "lum_city": "islamabad",
    "lum_region": "is"
  }
}

Now, replace “https://lumtest.com/myip.json” with the website of your choice and …

That’s it!