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Humja Jaan
Humja Jaan

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Was running a Telegram bot that needed MTProto proxies. The

Was running a Telegram bot that needed MTProto proxies. The usual problem: you find a working proxy, it dies within hours. I was manually testing 20-30 links per day, still half were dead.

Built a scraper that polls public Telegram channels automatically. It tests each proxy for actual connectivity and fake-TLS support. Dead ones get filtered out. Working ones go to a live list that updates hourly.

Now I just point my config at the fresh list from https://github.com/Yagami200/free-mtproto-proxies and forget about it. No more manual testing. The repo handles the scraping and validation on a cron job. Saves maybe 15 minutes daily of clicking dead links.

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