City-level residential proxies for Europe

How is a city proxy different from a country proxy?

A country proxy can exit anywhere in the country. In Germany that might be Leipzig when you needed Munich. A city proxy narrows the pool to addresses that geolocate to one city.

That matters when a site changes its answer by city: delivery fees, shop stock, local search results, regional ads or a city-specific landing page. For a national check, a country IP is enough and gives a larger pool.

The parameter is optional. Leave out -city- and the gateway picks an IP anywhere in the country you set.

The same product powers every city page and country hub; see all geo-targeting options and prices.

How do I choose a city in the username?

Add the country code and the city after your username, in lower case: USERNAME-country-es-city-valencia. Use English city names without accents, with _ for spaces: the_hague, cluj_napoca, novi_sad. Each city page shows its exact value.

You can add -asn-<number> to stay on one network, and -session-<id>-ttl-<minutes> to keep one IP. The city targeting guide explains the order of the parameters and what happens when a city has no IP online.

Rotating or sticky: which session should I use?

Use rotating sessions for many independent page loads, and sticky sessions for multi-step checks such as a basket or a login to your own test account.

• Rotating: Each new connection gets an IP from the pool, usually a different one; to get a new IP on every request, send one request per connection (turn off keep-alive).
• Sticky: add a session ID and a TTL; the gateway keeps the same city IP for up to 30 minutes (the IP can change earlier, for example if the residential device goes offline).

A sticky session keeps the city you asked for. Start a new session ID to move to another IP in the same city. Details are in the sessions guide.

Where do the residential IPs come from?

We resell residential and mobile IPs from established upstream partner networks. Our upstream provider confirms that device owners opt in and can opt out, and that its supply does not come from seized or disrupted networks such as NetNut or IPIDEA.

The exit IP belongs to a home broadband line, so an IP lookup shows a consumer network such as an incumbent telecom or a cable operator, not a hosting company. The sourcing page explains what we know and what we ask of our provider.

What can and cannot be done with these IPs?

Use them for checks of public pages and your own services: local search results, prices and delivery terms, your own ads and landing pages, and app or site geo-testing.

Blocked at the gateway: Banking, government and payment-portal sites, plus SMTP (email-sending) ports 25, 465 and 587. The acceptable use policy lists the rest. Abuse reports are reviewed by a person, and confirmed abuse leads to suspension.