Warning

Zyte API is replacing Smart Proxy Manager. It is no longer possible to sign up to Smart Proxy Manager. If you are an existing Smart Proxy Manager user, see Migrating from Smart Proxy Manager to Zyte API.

Using Smart Proxy Manager with PHP

Note

All the code in this documentation has been tested with PHP 7.3.29 and guzzlehttp/guzzle 7.3.0.

Using Curl

Making use of PHP binding for libcurl:

<?php

$ch = curl_init();

$url = 'https://httpbin.scrapinghub.com/get';
$proxy = 'proxy.zyte.com:8011';
$proxy_auth = '<API KEY>:';

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_PROXY, $proxy);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_PROXYUSERPWD, $proxy_auth);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, 30);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 180);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CAINFO, '/path/to/zyte-ca.crt'); //required for HTTPS
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 1); //required for HTTPS

$scraped_page = curl_exec($ch);

if($scraped_page === false)
{
    echo 'cURL error: ' . curl_error($ch);
}
else
{
    echo $scraped_page;
}

curl_close($ch);

?>

To get zyte-ca.crt, see Installing the Zyte CA certificate.

Refer to curl_multi_exec function to take advantage of Smart Proxy Manager’s concurrency feature and process requests in parallel (within the limits set for a given Smart Proxy Manager plan).

Using Guzzle

A Guzzle example:

<?php

use GuzzleHttp\Client as GuzzleClient;

$proxy_host = 'proxy.zyte.com';
$proxy_port = '8011';
$proxy_user = '<API KEY>';
$proxy_pass = '';
$proxy_url = "http://{$proxy_user}:{$proxy_pass}@{$proxy_host}:{$proxy_port}";

$url = 'https://httpbin.org/headers';

$guzzle_client = new GuzzleClient();
$res = $guzzle_client->request('GET', $url, [
    'proxy' => $proxy_url,
    'headers' => [
        'X-Crawlera-Cookies' => 'disable',
        'Accept-Encoding' => 'gzip, deflate, br',
    ]
]);

echo $res->getBody();

?>