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Humja Jaan
Humja Jaan

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I run Telegram's MTProto proxy on a VPS and it's fine until

I run Telegram's MTProto proxy on a VPS and it's fine until the proxy list goes stale. The usual copy-paste from random forum posts? Half are dead on arrival.

So I threw this together: a scraper that watches public Telegram channels where people post proxies. It tests each one with fake-TLS right away, kills the ones that fail, and publishes a live HTML page of what's working. I just point my client at the updater script now.

No more manual testing. It runs on a cron job and spits out a clean list: https://github.com/Yagami200/free-mtproto-proxies

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