DEV Community: Axio Api

Axio Proxy: Switch Proxy Locations and IPs Directly in Chrome

Axio Api — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 02:16:57 +0000

Need to test a website from another location or switch your browser's IP without manually configuring proxy settings?

Axio Proxy is a Chrome extension built for simple, browser-level proxy management. Choose an available proxy location, connect with one click, check your current IP, and manage your session directly from the Chrome toolbar.

Key Features

🌍 Proxy Location Selection: Choose an available country or location.

🔄 One-Click IP Switching: Request a different proxy IP while connected.

📊 Session Monitoring: Check your connection status, current IP, and remaining session time.

🛡️ WebRTC Leak Protection: Help prevent non-proxied WebRTC UDP traffic while connected.

⚙️ Simple Setup: Manage your Chrome proxy connection without repeatedly entering proxy credentials.

🎬 Watch the Tutorial

See Axio Proxy in action:

Watch the Axio Proxy tutorial on YouTube

Try Axio Proxy

🌐 Website: https://proxy.axioapi.com/

🧩 Install from Chrome Web Store: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/llkkdinmnjcpmllndjdnnjpgpkohooen

🔧 AxioAPI platform: https://axioapi.com/

An AxioAPI account is required to connect, and proxy access depends on available locations, credits, and service limits. Axio Proxy handles Chrome traffic rather than acting as a device-wide VPN.

If you try it, let me know what proxy features would be most useful for your development, testing, or automation workflow.

Axio Coupon: Find Promo Codes and Track Prices with Chrome

Axio Api — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 02:14:12 +0000

Tired of searching for discount codes that don't work?

Axio Coupon is a Chrome extension designed to make online shopping easier by helping you find and test coupon codes, track product price history, and monitor price drops on supported shopping websites.

What Can You Do with Axio Coupon?

🎟️ Automatic Coupon Finder: Discover and test available promo codes at supported checkouts.

📉 Price History: Check historical price trends before buying.

🔔 Price Drop Alerts: Monitor products and get notified when prices reach your target.

🛍️ Voucher Discovery: Find supported store, platform, and payment promotions.

🎬 Watch the Tutorial

See how Axio Coupon works in this video:

Watch the Axio Coupon tutorial on YouTube

Try Axio Coupon

🌐 Website: https://coupon.axioapi.com/

🧩 Install from Chrome Web Store: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/dllaglfomalgfobdgnjiachhmappcfjm

Axio Coupon is part of the AxioAPI ecosystem, built to create practical tools for everyday browsing and productivity.

Give it a try and let me know what features you'd like to see next!

Axio Leads: Find Local Business Leads with Google Maps

Axio Api — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 02:07:43 +0000

Looking for local business leads for sales, marketing, or outreach?

Axio Leads helps you discover businesses on Google Maps by location and business category, collect useful business details, and export results to CSV or Excel.

Key Features

📍 Scan a city or select a specific geographic area.

📞 Collect business names, phone numbers, websites, addresses, and ratings.

🔎 Filter leads and preview estimated results before scanning.

📊 Export collected leads to CSV or Excel.

💳 Pay for delivered leads without a monthly subscription.

Watch the Tutorial

🎬 Learn how to use Axio Leads in this video:

Watch the Axio Leads tutorial on Youtube

Try Axio Leads

🌐 Website: https://leads.axioapi.com/

Get 200 free credits when you sign up, with no credit card required.

Axio Leads is built for marketing agencies, freelancers, sales teams, and anyone who needs a more efficient way to build local business prospect lists.

Give it a try and let me know what you think!

Axio Coupon: A Free Chrome Extension for Finding Coupons and Tracking Product Prices

Axio Api — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 02:01:03 +0000

Online shopping can be convenient, but finding a working discount code or knowing whether a sale is actually worth it often takes more time than expected.

You might search several coupon websites, copy promo codes one by one, or add a product to your cart only to discover that the discount has expired. And when a store announces a big price drop, it is not always easy to tell whether the new price is genuinely a good deal.

That is why I built Axio Coupon, a Chrome extension designed to make coupon discovery and price tracking easier.

🔗 Website: https://coupon.axioapi.com/
🧩 Install from Chrome Web Store: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/axio-coupon-auto-coupons/dllaglfomalgfobdgnjiachhmappcfjm

What Is Axio Coupon?

Axio Coupon is a free Chrome extension that helps online shoppers discover available promo codes, test supported coupons during checkout, and monitor product prices over time.

Instead of manually searching multiple websites for discount codes, you can use the extension to find available offers and check which supported codes provide a valid discount.

The goal is simple: spend less time searching for deals and make more informed purchasing decisions.

Key Features of Axio Coupon

1. Automatic Coupon Finder and Tester

Finding a coupon code is easy. Finding one that actually works is another story.

Axio Coupon can discover and test available coupon codes on supported shopping websites. When multiple eligible codes are available, the extension helps identify the best valid discount for your checkout.

This can reduce the repetitive process of copying, pasting, and testing promo codes manually.

2. Product Price History and Tracking

A discount percentage does not always tell the whole story.

With price history and tracking on supported products and stores, Axio Coupon helps you review historical price movements before making a purchase.

This feature can be useful when shopping during seasonal sales, comparing deals, or deciding whether to buy now or wait.

3. Price Drop Alerts

Found something you want but do not want to buy at its current price?

You can set a target price for supported products and receive browser notifications when the tracked price reaches your target.

Rather than repeatedly checking the same product page, you can let the price tracker help you monitor potential deals.

4. One-Click Voucher Collection

Shopping platforms may offer several types of discounts, including platform vouchers, store coupons, and promotions from payment partners.

Axio Coupon helps surface available vouchers on supported pages, making it easier to review potential savings without searching through multiple pages manually.

5. Bank and Card Promotions

Some shopping discounts depend on the payment method you use.

Axio Coupon can highlight supported bank and card promotions, helping you consider additional eligible discounts alongside product deals and coupon codes.

How to Use Axio Coupon

Getting started is straightforward:

Install Axio Coupon from the Chrome Web Store.

Visit a supported online shopping website.

Browse products or proceed to checkout.

Use the extension to discover available coupons and test eligible discount codes.

Track supported products if you want to monitor their prices over time.

Feature availability depends on the supported website and product.

Who Is Axio Coupon For?

Axio Coupon may be useful for:

Frequent online shoppers who regularly look for promo codes and vouchers.

Deal hunters who want to compare prices before purchasing.

Budget-conscious buyers who prefer to wait for a target price.

People shopping during major sales who want another way to evaluate discounts.

Anyone tired of manually testing expired or invalid coupon codes.

Whether you shop occasionally or browse online stores every week, having coupon discovery and price tracking in one browser extension can make the process more convenient.

Is Axio Coupon Free?

Yes. Axio Coupon is available as a free Chrome extension, with no subscription fee required to use it.

The extension participates in affiliate marketing programs. If you purchase through eligible merchant links or deals, Axio Coupon may earn a commission. This helps support the service without charging users a subscription fee.

According to its published policy, the extension does not sell user data or inject affiliate tracking into the background of unrelated browsing sessions.

You can review the privacy policy here:

https://axioapi.com/privacy#extension-policy

Try Axio Coupon

If you frequently shop online, spend time searching for working promo codes, or want to monitor product prices before buying, Axio Coupon is worth exploring.

Instead of treating coupon hunting and price tracking as separate tasks, you can use one browser extension to help with both.

Get started here:

🌐 Website: https://coupon.axioapi.com/

🧩 Chrome Web Store: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/axio-coupon-auto-coupons/dllaglfomalgfobdgnjiachhmappcfjm

🔧 Developer platform: https://axioapi.com/

I'm building Axio Coupon as part of the AxioAPI ecosystem, with a focus on practical browser tools that solve everyday problems.

If you try it, I'd love to hear your feedback: which shopping websites should be supported next, and what features would make coupon discovery and price tracking more useful for you?

ChromeExtension #CouponFinder #PriceTracker #OnlineShopping #Productivity

Axio Leads: Turn Any Map Area Into a Structured Local Business Lead List

Axio Api — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 08:34:10 +0000

If you work in B2B sales, local SEO, web design, lead generation, market research, or agency outreach, you eventually run into the same problem:

How do I build a clean list of businesses in a specific area without manually copying results one by one?

That is the problem behind Axio Leads.

Axio Leads is a local business lead generation product in the AxioAPI ecosystem.

Instead of treating local business research as a single search page, Axio Leads is built around a geographic workflow:

Choose a business type
        ↓
Select a city or draw an area
        ↓
Apply filters
        ↓
Preview the estimate
        ↓
Run the scan
        ↓
Deduplicate results
        ↓
Export to CSV or Excel

The goal is not simply to collect more rows.

The goal is to turn a market or territory into a usable business lead list.

What is Axio Leads?

Axio Leads is a browser-based local business lead generator that lets users search for businesses by category and geographic area.

For example:

Dentists in Austin
Restaurants in New York
Coffee shops in Ho Chi Minh City
Plumbers in London
Gyms in Da Nang

A typical record can contain fields such as:

business name
category
phone number
website
address
rating
review count
coordinates
map identifiers

The exact fields depend on what is available for each business.

Axio Leads then keeps the data structured so it can be searched, filtered, reviewed, and exported.

Product:

https://leads.axioapi.com/

Why not just search Google Maps manually?

For one or two businesses, manual search is fine.

The workflow becomes painful when you need hundreds or thousands of businesses.

A manual process usually looks like this:

Search Google Maps
      ↓
Open result
      ↓
Copy business name
      ↓
Copy phone
      ↓
Copy website
      ↓
Paste into spreadsheet
      ↓
Repeat

That works until the project becomes large.

Then you start dealing with:

slow manual collection
duplicate businesses
unclear geographic coverage
inconsistent formatting
difficult filtering
limited result views
repeated cleanup before outreach

A local lead generation tool should remove most of that repetitive work.

The main idea: search an area, not just a result page

One of the main design decisions behind Axio Leads is that a user selects the geographic area they actually care about.

Instead of thinking:

keyword → one list of results

the workflow becomes:

business type
      +
selected map area
      ↓
multiple geographic cells
      ↓
local business discovery
      ↓
deduplication
      ↓
final lead list

This matters because dense cities can contain far more businesses than a single visible result list exposes.

Axio Leads can scan smaller sections of a larger selected territory, then merge and deduplicate the results.

For the user, however, the interface stays simple:

Pick the market. Draw the area. Preview. Run.

Selecting the exact area you want

A strong local lead generation workflow needs geographic control.

Axio Leads allows users to:

search for a city or location
move around the map
draw a rectangular scan area
adjust the selected region
scan only the territory they care about

Example:

Business type:
Dentists

Location:
Austin, TX

Selected area:
12.6 km²

This is useful for teams working with territories.

For example:

a local SEO agency researching one city
a sales rep assigned to one region
a supplier targeting businesses around an industrial area
a freelancer looking for prospects near a specific market
an agency building lists for multiple client locations

The geographic area becomes part of the query itself.

Preview the scan before spending credits

One problem with many data tools is that you often have to start the job before you understand what it may cost.

Axio Leads includes an estimate and preview step before the full scan.

A user may see something like:

Selected area
12.6 km²

Estimated cells
96

Estimated leads
1,100–1,400

Estimated credits
1,100–1,400

The user can also preview a small sample of businesses before launching the full job.

For example:

Business	Phone	Website	Rating
Lakeline Family Dental	+1 512 555 0142	lakeline.example	4.8
Barton Springs Dentistry	+1 512 555 0177	bartondental.example	4.9
South Congress Smiles	+1 512 555 0108	scsmiles.example	4.6

That preview answers three important questions:

Is the selected area correct?
Is the data relevant to the target market?
Is the estimated cost acceptable?

The preview itself is designed to happen before the full paid scan.

Filter the businesses before scanning

A large list is not automatically a useful list.

For example, a web agency may specifically want:

Restaurants
in Austin
with a phone number
without a website
rating >= 4.0

Another team may want:

Dentists
in New York
with a website
with a phone number
rating >= 4.5

Axio Leads supports practical filters such as:

has phone number
has website
does not have website
minimum rating
minimum review count
result language

The point is to reduce unnecessary cleanup after the scan.

The closer the scan matches the sales or research criteria, the more useful the exported list becomes.

Why “businesses without a website” is an interesting filter

This is a simple example of how a data filter can map directly to a business workflow.

Imagine you run a web agency.

A broad list of restaurants is useful.

But this is much more actionable:

Restaurants
      ↓
Has phone number
      ↓
No website
      ↓
Rating >= 4.0

Now the list is closer to a real prospecting hypothesis:

Established local businesses with customer activity but no visible website.

That does not mean every record is automatically a good prospect.

It means the data starts closer to the qualification logic the agency actually uses.

Live scan progress instead of a black box

Large geographic scans take time.

Axio Leads is designed to show progress while a scan is running.

For example:

Austin · Dentists

Status:
Running

Progress:
62%

Leads found:
846

Cells scanned:
94 / 152

Credits used:
846

Results can appear progressively as the scan runs.

This gives the user visibility into:

what is happening
how far the scan has progressed
how many leads have been found
how many credits have been used

That is more useful than submitting a job and waiting without feedback.

Deduplicating businesses across map cells

Area-based scanning introduces an obvious technical problem:

The same business can appear in more than one geographic cell.

If the results were simply concatenated, the exported file would contain duplicates.

Conceptually:

Cell A → Business X
Cell B → Business X
Cell C → Business Y

After deduplication:

Business X
Business Y

Axio Leads deduplicates businesses within the scan using map identifiers before delivering the final list.

The user should pay for unique delivered leads, not repeated copies of the same business found in neighboring cells.

Exporting local business leads to CSV and Excel

A lead generation tool becomes much more useful when the data can leave the platform.

Axio Leads supports exports such as:

CSV
XLSX

A spreadsheet can contain fields like:

Business
Category
Phone
Website
Rating
Reviews
Address
Latitude
Longitude
Place ID

From there, the data can move into:

Excel
a spreadsheet workflow
CRM preparation
internal tools
lead qualification
enrichment pipelines
agency research

The XLSX export is designed to support international characters, including Vietnamese data.

Example workflow: finding prospects for a web agency

Suppose a web agency wants to find restaurants in Ho Chi Minh City that have a phone number but no website.

The scan setup could look like:

Business type:
Restaurants

Location:
Ho Chi Minh City

Filters:
Has phone = Yes
No website = Yes

Then:

Estimate
    ↓
Preview sample leads
    ↓
Run scan
    ↓
Review results
    ↓
Export CSV

The final file can become the input for a separate qualification process.

The key point is that the user starts from a specific market hypothesis, not from a giant generic business database.

Example workflow: local SEO market research

A local SEO agency may want to understand a market before pitching a client.

Examples:

Dentists in Austin
Roofers in Dallas
Plumbers in Manchester
Clinics in Hanoi
Restaurants in Paris

The resulting business list can help answer questions such as:

How many businesses operate in this area?
Which businesses have websites?
Which businesses have strong review counts?
Which competitors dominate a local market?
Which businesses may need better digital presence?

Axio Leads is not an SEO ranking tool by itself.

It provides structured local business data that can be used as part of a broader research workflow.

Example workflow: territory-based B2B sales

Many sales teams work by territory.

Imagine a rep responsible for:

Manchester

with a target segment:

Accounting firms

The workflow becomes:

Select Manchester
      ↓
Search Accountants
      ↓
Require phone number
      ↓
Preview
      ↓
Scan
      ↓
Export

This is different from purchasing a nationwide company database and then filtering millions of rows afterward.

Axio Leads starts with the territory first.

Axio Leads vs a simple Google Maps scraper extension

A browser extension that extracts visible map results can be useful for small jobs.

The model is usually:

Current search
      ↓
Scroll
      ↓
Collect loaded results
      ↓
Export

Axio Leads focuses on a different workflow:

Geographic area
      ↓
Scan multiple cells
      ↓
Find businesses
      ↓
Deduplicate
      ↓
Deliver structured leads

Neither approach is universally better.

If you need a small number of visible results, a lightweight browser scraper may be enough.

If you need to explore a larger territory and control the geographic coverage, area-based scanning becomes more useful.

What about the common ~120-result limitation?

People researching Google Maps scraping tools often encounter tools that stop after a relatively small number of results.

Axio Leads is not designed around:

one keyword
=
one fixed result page

The area can be divided into multiple geographic sections and scanned separately.

That makes it possible to continue discovering businesses across a larger market.

However, this should not be interpreted as an “unlimited results” guarantee.

The actual number of businesses depends on:

the selected geographic area
the business category
local business density
available source data
active filters

The purpose is to avoid making a single result view the hard boundary of the scan.

How credits work

Axio Leads uses credits from the AxioAPI ecosystem.

The important model is that credits are associated with unique leads delivered to the user, rather than exposing the internal number of map requests as the billing unit.

The simplified idea is:

Internal scanning
      ↓
Businesses discovered
      ↓
Duplicates removed
      ↓
Unique leads delivered
      ↓
Credits charged

The estimate step exists so the user can understand the expected lead volume and credit usage before starting.

Current product and pricing information is available at:

https://leads.axioapi.com/

Axio Leads is part of the AxioAPI ecosystem

Axio Leads is not a standalone brand disconnected from the rest of the platform.

It is part of AxioAPI.

AxioAPI is a unified API platform for developers, SaaS products and automation workflows.

The broader ecosystem also includes products such as:

Axio Leads — local business lead generation
Axio Proxy — browser proxy and proxy workflows
Axio Coupon — coupon discovery and price tracking

The idea is that AxioAPI provides the underlying developer platform, while focused products package selected capabilities into complete user workflows.

Explore AxioAPI:

https://axioapi.com/apis

English and Vietnamese support

Axio Leads is designed for international use.

The interface currently supports:

English
Tiếng Việt

The English version is the default.

Vietnamese users can use the /vi version of the site.

The result language can also be selected as part of the scan workflow.

This matters when researching businesses across different markets.

What about email and social data?

The core workflow currently focuses on local business discovery and structured business fields.

A natural next step is enrichment.

Conceptually:

Business
   ↓
Website
   ↓
Email discovery
   ↓
Email validation
   ↓
Social links

That can turn a raw local-business record into a more useful sales lead.

However, enrichment availability depends on the current product version and the data that is actually available for each business.

Not every business has a public email address, website, or social profile.

Responsible use matters

Local business data can be useful for market research and B2B prospecting, but having access to data does not mean every outreach use is automatically appropriate.

Users are responsible for complying with:

applicable privacy laws
anti-spam regulations
platform rules
outreach regulations
AxioAPI acceptable-use policies

A lead generation tool should help structure research and prospecting.

It should not be treated as permission to send unsolicited messages without considering the rules that apply in the relevant market.

Getting started with Axio Leads

1. Open Axio Leads

Visit:

https://leads.axioapi.com/

2. Create a new scan

Choose a business type.

Examples:

Dentists
Restaurants
Plumbers
Coffee shops
Gyms

3. Select a location

Search for a city or move the map to the market you want to research.

4. Select the scan area

Draw or adjust the geographic region.

5. Apply filters

For example:

Has phone
Has website
Minimum rating
Minimum review count

6. Estimate the scan

Review:

area size
estimated leads
estimated credit usage
preview businesses

7. Start the scan

Watch the progress while local businesses are discovered.

8. Export the results

Download the final data as CSV or Excel.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is Axio Leads?

Axio Leads is a local business lead generation tool from AxioAPI. It lets users select a geographic area, search for a business type, filter the results, preview the estimated scan, and export structured leads.

Is Axio Leads a Google Maps lead extractor?

Axio Leads is designed for local business discovery through geographic scanning and can be used as a Google Maps lead extraction workflow. It focuses on area selection, filtering, deduplication, previewing, and structured export.

What data can Axio Leads collect?

Current business fields can include business name, category, phone number, website, address, rating, review count, coordinates, and map identifiers when available.

Can I export Google Maps leads to CSV?

Yes. Axio Leads supports CSV export.

Can I export leads to Excel?

Yes. Axio Leads supports XLSX export.

Can I choose an exact geographic area?

Yes. The user can select a location and define the area to scan directly on the map.

Can I preview results before running a scan?

Yes. The estimate workflow includes expected lead volume, expected credits, and sample business results before the full scan.

Does Axio Leads remove duplicate businesses?

Yes. The scan workflow deduplicates businesses using map identifiers before delivering unique lead records.

Does Axio Leads support Vietnamese?

Yes. Axio Leads supports both English and Vietnamese interfaces.

Is Axio Leads free?

New users can receive starter credits to test the workflow. Current pricing and free-credit details should always be checked on the product website because they may change.

Final thoughts

The interesting part of local business lead generation is not simply scraping a page.

The useful workflow is:

Choose a territory
      ↓
Define the target business
      ↓
Filter
      ↓
Estimate
      ↓
Preview
      ↓
Scan
      ↓
Deduplicate
      ↓
Export

That is the workflow Axio Leads is built around.

If you work in:

B2B sales
local SEO
web design
marketing agencies
local market research
lead generation
territory-based sales

you can try it here:

👉 Axio Leads

https://leads.axioapi.com/

👉 AxioAPI

https://axioapi.com/

👉 AxioAPI API Catalog

https://axioapi.com/apis

If you build lead generation or local-market research tools, I would also be interested to know which feature matters most to you:

better geographic coverage, email enrichment, recurring scans, CRM export, or API access?

Axio Proxy by AxioAPI: A Chrome Proxy Extension for IP Switching, Location Testing and Automation

Axio Api — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 04:06:21 +0000

Sometimes you do not need a full device-wide VPN.

You just need your browser to use another IP address.

That can happen when you are:

testing a website from another country
checking geo-specific content
debugging redirects
testing localization
running QA workflows
verifying browser behavior through another network route
working with browser automation
testing applications against different proxy locations

This is the problem I built Axio Proxy to solve.

Axio Proxy is a Chrome proxy extension powered by AxioAPI that lets you select a proxy location, connect directly from the browser, view the current IP address, and manage proxy sessions without manually configuring proxy credentials every time.

Chrome extension:

Install Axio Proxy from the Chrome Web Store

Axio Proxy is also part of the broader AxioAPI ecosystem, where developers can access proxy infrastructure through REST APIs for more advanced automation.

Why use a proxy extension instead of a desktop VPN?

A VPN typically routes traffic from the entire device.

That can be useful, but it is not always what developers need.

Imagine you are debugging a website and only want Chrome to use a different network route.

Changing the entire operating system connection means other applications may also be affected:

Browser
Terminal
Desktop apps
Background services
Other tools

A browser proxy extension gives you a more focused architecture:

Chrome
   |
   v
Axio Proxy
   |
   v
Proxy Session
   |
   v
Selected Exit Location

The rest of the machine can continue using its normal connection.

For browser-focused development, testing and automation, this is often simpler.

What is Axio Proxy?

Axio Proxy is a Chrome extension from AxioAPI designed for browser-level proxy management.

The main workflow is intentionally simple:

Choose location
      ↓
Connect
      ↓
Receive proxy IP
      ↓
Browse / test
      ↓
Change IP or disconnect

Instead of repeatedly managing:

proxy_host
proxy_port
proxy_username
proxy_password

the extension handles the connection through the user's AxioAPI account.

The product page is available at:

proxy.axioapi.com

Switching proxy locations directly in Chrome

One of the core features is location selection.

The extension can expose available proxy countries or regions directly inside the Chrome popup.

For example:

Netherlands
United States
Germany
Singapore
Japan
...

The exact locations available depend on the proxy infrastructure and account access at the time of the request.

A typical workflow looks like this:

Open Axio Proxy
        ↓
Select Netherlands
        ↓
Connect
        ↓
New browser IP

This is useful when testing applications that behave differently depending on the visitor's region.

Viewing the current IP and session status

A proxy tool should not leave the user guessing whether the connection is actually active.

Axio Proxy shows the important session information directly in the extension.

For example:

Status
Connected

Location
Netherlands

Current IP
xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx

Session duration
00:12:36

This is useful during QA because you can immediately confirm which route Chrome is currently using.

The interface is designed around a simple principle:

You should always know whether the proxy is connected, where it is connected, and what IP the browser is using.

Changing the proxy IP during a session

Another useful capability is changing the exit IP.

There are situations where a developer or tester wants another IP without manually rebuilding the entire configuration.

Examples include:

testing how a website behaves with a new IP
checking another proxy node
rotating away from an unstable endpoint
testing network-dependent application logic
browser automation workflows

Axio Proxy makes this action accessible through the extension instead of requiring manual proxy configuration.

WebRTC leak protection

Browser proxying is not only about HTTP requests.

WebRTC is an important consideration.

Depending on the browser configuration, WebRTC may attempt network connections that do not behave the same way as normal proxied HTTP traffic.

Axio Proxy includes WebRTC leak protection intended to reduce non-proxied WebRTC traffic while the proxy connection is active.

For browser proxy tools, this matters because otherwise the user may assume all relevant browser traffic follows the configured route when that may not always be true.

Browser proxy vs system-wide VPN

It is important to understand what Axio Proxy is not.

Axio Proxy is focused on Chrome browser traffic.

If Chrome is connected through Axio Proxy:

Chrome
   ↓
Axio Proxy
   ↓
Proxy

that does not automatically mean another application will use the same proxy.

For example:

curl
VS Code
desktop applications
game clients
system services

will not automatically inherit a Chrome extension's proxy configuration.

If you need application-level or server-side proxy infrastructure, an API-based solution is usually more appropriate.

That is where AxioAPI Proxy API comes in.

Axio Proxy and AxioAPI

Axio Proxy is not intended to be an isolated browser extension.

It is part of the AxioAPI ecosystem.

AxioAPI is a unified API platform for developers, SaaS products and automation workflows.

The platform includes APIs covering multiple categories, including proxy infrastructure.

This gives users two ways to work with proxy services:

Normal browser workflow
          ↓
Axio Proxy Chrome Extension

and:

Developer automation
          ↓
AxioAPI Proxy API

The extension is useful when a person wants to interact with the proxy visually.

The API is more suitable when software needs to control proxy sessions programmatically.

Using the AxioAPI Proxy API

For more advanced workflows, developers can work directly with the AxioAPI Proxy API.

For example, an application may need to create a proxy session:

curl -X POST 'https://axioapi.com/api/v1/proxy/sessions' \
  -H 'Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY' \
  -H 'Accept: application/json' \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{
    "country": "US",
    "protocol": "http",
    "mode": "sticky"
  }'

The exact options depend on the current API implementation, but the general model is:

Application
    ↓
AxioAPI
    ↓
Create Proxy Session
    ↓
Use Proxy
    ↓
Rotate / Inspect / Close

This is much easier to integrate into backend systems than trying to automate a browser extension.

Sticky proxy sessions

A sticky session keeps the same exit IP for a period of time or workflow.

This is useful for processes that need network continuity.

For example:

Login
  ↓
Page 1
  ↓
Page 2
  ↓
Submit form

If every request suddenly comes from a different IP address, some applications may treat that session differently.

A sticky proxy keeps the network identity stable across that flow.

Potential use cases include:

multi-step QA tests
authenticated sessions
browser testing
pagination
session-based automation

Rotating proxy sessions

Other workflows need the opposite behavior.

Instead of preserving the same IP, they periodically request another exit node.

Conceptually:

Request
   ↓
Proxy IP A

Rotate
   ↓
Proxy IP B

Rotate
   ↓
Proxy IP C

This is where rotating proxy functionality is useful.

For automation that needs direct control over when rotation happens, the AxioAPI REST API is generally more suitable than manually interacting with the Chrome extension.

When should you use Axio Proxy?

I see Axio Proxy being most useful for several groups.

Web developers

A developer can quickly check how a website behaves from another proxy location without changing the whole operating system network configuration.

Possible use cases:

geo redirects
localized landing pages
regional content
testing public websites
debugging browser behavior

QA engineers

QA teams often need to reproduce environment-specific behavior.

Axio Proxy can help during manual browser tests where IP or region may influence the result.

SEO and growth teams

IP location can sometimes affect what a user sees online.

Possible workflows include:

checking localized pages
testing international websites
verifying region-specific content
inspecting geo-targeted landing pages

IP is only one signal, though.

Cookies, browser locale, account state, fingerprinting and other factors may also influence the result.

Automation developers

For quick manual testing, the Chrome extension is convenient.

For production automation, I would generally use the AxioAPI Proxy API instead.

That provides direct programmatic control over sessions and proxy lifecycle.

Axio Proxy vs AxioAPI Proxy API

The easiest way to choose between them is based on how you want to interact with the proxy.

Requirement	Axio Proxy	AxioAPI Proxy API
Switch proxy in Chrome	✅
Select location visually	✅
Check browser IP quickly	✅
Manual QA testing	✅
Create sessions from code		✅
Sticky proxy automation		✅
Rotating proxy automation		✅
Backend integration		✅
Large automation workflows		✅

They solve different layers of the same problem.

Axio Proxy provides the user interface.

AxioAPI provides the programmable infrastructure.

Why build a Chrome extension on top of an API platform?

This is probably the most interesting part of the project for me.

Developer infrastructure is usually exposed as APIs.

That is great when you are writing code.

But sometimes the developer does not want to write a script just to perform a quick test.

For example:

I want to see this page
from another proxy location.

Writing integration code for that would be unnecessary.

The extension turns the underlying proxy capability into a simple UI:

Select location
→ Connect
→ Check
→ Disconnect

At the same time, the underlying API remains available for workflows that actually require code.

This allows the same infrastructure to serve both:

Human workflow
      +
Developer workflow

That is one direction I am exploring across the broader AxioAPI ecosystem.

Installing Axio Proxy

You can install the extension directly from the Chrome Web Store:

Axio Proxy — Chrome Web Store

The main product page is:

Axio Proxy

General flow:

Install Axio Proxy.
Sign in with your AxioAPI account.
Select an available location.
Connect.
Verify the current IP and session status.
Change the location or IP when necessary.
Disconnect when finished.

Availability of locations and proxy usage may depend on account limits, credits and current infrastructure availability.

Final thoughts

Axio Proxy by AxioAPI started from a simple idea:

Browser proxy switching should not require repeatedly configuring raw proxy credentials.

For manual browser workflows, Axio Proxy provides a lightweight interface for:

selecting proxy locations
changing Chrome's proxy IP
viewing connection details
controlling proxy sessions
WebRTC leak protection

For programmatic workflows, the same ecosystem extends into the AxioAPI Proxy API for sticky sessions, rotating proxies and automation.

If you want to try the browser extension:

Axio Proxy — proxy.axioapi.com

Install Axio Proxy on Chrome

For API-based integration:

AxioAPI Proxy & VPN API

And for the broader developer API platform:

AxioAPI.com

I'm continuing to improve the extension and the underlying proxy infrastructure, so feedback from developers, QA engineers and automation builders is especially useful.

What browser proxy features do you normally need in your own development workflow?

AxioAPI: How I Simplified 100+ Developer APIs Behind One API Key

Axio Api — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 02:08:15 +0000

Building an application that uses one third-party API is easy.

Building one that depends on ten of them is not.

A typical SaaS or automation project can quickly end up depending on separate services for:

SMS and OTP verification
Temporary Email API
Email Validation API
Proxy API
TikTok Scraper API
Instagram Scraper API
YouTube Scraper API
LinkedIn data
SEO and keyword metrics
utility APIs

At first, this does not look like a major architectural problem.

Then your .env starts looking like this:

SMS_API_KEY=
TEMP_MAIL_API_KEY=
EMAIL_VALIDATION_API_KEY=
TIKTOK_API_KEY=
INSTAGRAM_API_KEY=
YOUTUBE_API_KEY=
SEO_API_KEY=
PROXY_USERNAME=
PROXY_PASSWORD=

Each provider also brings its own authentication method, billing account, rate limits, response schema, retry strategy, documentation, error format and dashboard.

This was the problem that led me to build AxioAPI — a unified API platform for developers, SaaS products and automation workflows.

Instead of integrating many unrelated providers directly into an application, the idea is simple:

Application
     |
     v
  AxioAPI
     |
     +-- SMS / OTP
     +-- Temporary Email
     +-- Email Validation
     +-- Social Data
     +-- Proxy / VPN
     +-- SEO Data
     +-- Utility APIs

One account. One API key. One credit wallet. Multiple API services.

The real problem is not calling an API

Most APIs are easy to call.

const response = await fetch(url, {
  headers: {
    Authorization: `Bearer ${API_KEY}`
  }
});

const data = await response.json();

The difficult part appears later.

Imagine your application uses eight providers. One returns success/data, another returns status/result, and another returns code/payload.

Now multiply that by authentication, rate limits, billing and provider-specific errors.

The integration itself is rarely the expensive part.

Maintaining the integrations is.

That is where a unified API platform becomes useful.

What is AxioAPI?

AxioAPI is an API platform for developers that exposes many different services through one account and one authentication model.

At the time of writing, the platform includes 100+ API capabilities across multiple categories.

Some of the main categories are:

Verification and communication APIs

SMS API
OTP API
phone verification API
Temporary Email API
Email Validation API

Social media scraping APIs

TikTok Scraper API
Facebook Scraper API
Instagram Scraper API
YouTube Scraper API
X / Twitter API
LinkedIn Scraper API
Reddit API
GitHub data API

Infrastructure APIs

Proxy API
VPN nodes
rotating proxy sessions

SEO, content and utility APIs

SEO API
Keyword API
keyword metrics
keyword ideas
backlink data
domain analysis
on-page audit
content and text processing

There are also utilities, AI visual generation, Shopify catalog data, community/open-social data and academic research APIs.

The full catalog is available here:

👉 Explore AxioAPI APIs

One API key instead of multiple credentials

The main integration pattern is Bearer authentication:

Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY

Instead of maintaining many secrets, an application can use:

AXIO_API_KEY=

This reduces secret management, credential rotation, duplicated HTTP clients, integration code, billing complexity and provider-specific configuration.

Temporary Email API for testing and automation

One API I frequently need when building automation and QA workflows is a Temporary Email API.

A typical automated signup test looks like this:

Create temporary inbox
        |
        v
Submit registration form
        |
        v
Receive verification email
        |
        v
Extract OTP or verification link
        |
        v
Complete signup

This is useful with Playwright, Cypress, Selenium, CI/CD pipelines, staging environments, password-reset testing and email OTP testing.

With AxioAPI, creating an inbox looks like this:

curl -X POST   'https://axioapi.com/api/v1/temp-mail/inboxes'   -H 'Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY'   -H 'Accept: application/json'   -H 'Content-Type: application/json'   -d '{
    "label": "signup-test",
    "ttl_minutes": 10
  }'

A typical response:

{
  "data": {
    "id": "9d3f6c1e-2b7a-4c55-8f0e-1a2b3c4d5e6f",
    "address": "example@domain.com",
    "status": "active",
    "expires_at": "2026-10-01T10:42:18Z"
  }
}

You can see the full Temporary Email API product page here.

Using AxioAPI from Laravel

use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Http;

$response = Http::withToken(env('AXIO_API_KEY'))
    ->acceptJson()
    ->post('https://axioapi.com/api/v1/temp-mail/inboxes', [
        'label' => 'signup-test',
        'ttl_minutes' => 10,
    ]);

$data = $response->json();

The same API key can then be reused across other AxioAPI categories.

Email Validation API for SaaS and lead workflows

Another common SaaS requirement is an Email Validation API.

It can be useful during account registration, lead generation, CRM imports, newsletter signup, email hygiene and fraud prevention.

Typical checks include syntax, domain, MX records, disposable email and deliverability.

Related search intents include email validation API, email verification API, disposable email checker API, email deliverability API and check email exists API.

Social Media Scraping APIs

Social data is a particularly good example of integration sprawl.

A research platform may need data from TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, Facebook, X, LinkedIn, Reddit and GitHub.

Using a different provider for every platform quickly becomes difficult to maintain.

AxioAPI exposes separate social-data categories while keeping authentication and billing centralized.

Possible use cases include creator research, competitor analysis, content intelligence, social monitoring, profile enrichment, internal analytics and automation workflows.

This is where the value of an API platform for developers becomes clearer:

the goal is not simply to provide another scraper.

The goal is to avoid integrating eight scraper providers.

Proxy API for automation workflows

A scraping or automation stack often looks like this:

Scraper API
+
Proxy provider
+
Proxy rotation
+
Country targeting
+
Session handling

AxioAPI also includes Proxy API and VPN-related workflows such as location selection, sticky sessions, proxy rotation, geo testing, data collection and automation.

Relevant SEO terms include proxy API, rotating proxy API, VPN API and proxy for automation.

SEO API and keyword data

Another category available in AxioAPI is SEO data.

The current SEO-related capabilities include keyword metrics, search volume, CPC, keyword difficulty, keyword suggestions, domain overview, backlink summary, domain history and on-page audit.

This can be useful when building an internal SEO dashboard, keyword research tool, backlink analysis tool or technical audit system.

Relevant search terms include SEO API, keyword API, keyword research API and SEO automation API.

Shared credit pricing instead of multiple subscriptions

AxioAPI uses a shared credit model.

At the time of writing:

1 credit = $0.001

The free plan includes:

200 credits / month

Paid plans start at:

Developer  $15/month
Growth     $49/month
Business   $129/month

Different endpoints have different credit costs, but the same wallet can be used across different API categories.

Pricing details:

👉 AxioAPI Pricing

Developer experience matters more than endpoint count

Having 100+ APIs is not useful if developers cannot understand them.

AxioAPI provides REST APIs, Bearer authentication, JSON responses, OpenAPI documentation, interactive testing, code examples, request tracking and centralized billing.

Developer documentation:

👉 AxioAPI API Documentation

Public repositories and developer resources:

👉 AxioAPI on GitHub

API access from Telegram

AxioAPI also has a Telegram interface:

@axioapi_bot

It can be useful for quick workflows around SMS / OTP, temporary inboxes, proxy access and wallet balance.

When does a unified API platform make sense?

A unified API platform becomes more useful when you have multiple external APIs, automation-heavy workflows, multiple environments, internal tools or fast prototyping needs.

If your application only needs one specialized API, integrating that provider directly may be simpler.

The architecture trade-off

A unified API platform is still an abstraction layer.

That has benefits:

fewer credentials
less integration code
centralized billing
consistent developer experience

But direct integration can still be better when you need highly specialized provider features, a direct enterprise contract, specific compliance requirements or ultra-low latency.

The important question is:

At what point does maintaining multiple API providers become more expensive than maintaining one integration layer?

Final thoughts

The original motivation behind AxioAPI was simple: I got tired of integrating the same categories of services over and over again.

SMS needed one account.

Temporary email needed another.

Social data needed several more.

Proxy infrastructure was separate again.

SEO data had another billing system.

So instead of optimizing each individual integration, I started working on the integration layer itself.

Today, AxioAPI provides a growing catalog of developer APIs through one account, one API key and one shared credit system.

If you are building SaaS, automation, testing, scraping, SEO tools or internal developer products, you can explore it here:

👉 AxioAPI — Unified API Platform for Developers

I would also genuinely like feedback from other developers:

How many external APIs does your project use before managing them starts becoming painful?