Quick Start

Quick Start

This guide gets you from zero to a working proxy request in under 2 minutes.

Prerequisites

• A HydraSkill account (sign up free)
• An API key (from Dashboard → API Keys)
• Python 3.8+ (or Node.js 18+)

Step 1: Install

pip install hydraskill

Step 2: Initialize

from hydraskill import ProxyClient

client = ProxyClient(api_key="sk-your-key-here")

Or set the environment variable and skip the parameter:

export HYDRASKILL_API_KEY="sk-your-key-here"

client = ProxyClient()  # auto-reads from env

Step 3: Get a Proxy

proxy = client.get_proxy(
    target="amazon.com",
    session_lock=True,
    country="US"
)

print(proxy.ip)       # 203.0.113.42
print(proxy.country)  # US
print(proxy.type)     # residential

Step 4: Use It

import requests

response = requests.get(
    "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09V3KXJPB",
    proxies=proxy.to_dict()
)

print(response.status_code)  # 200

What Happens Behind the Scenes

1. HydraSkill analyzes the target domain (amazon.com)
2. Selects the optimal IP type (residential for e-commerce)
3. Assigns an IP from the US pool
4. Locks that IP to your session (won’t change until you release it)
5. If the IP gets blocked → auto-switches to a new one, retries transparently

Full Example: Web Scraping Agent

from hydraskill import ProxyClient
import requests

client = ProxyClient()

# Scrape 100 product pages with the same IP
proxy = client.get_proxy(target="amazon.com", session_lock=True)

for product_id in product_ids:
    url = f"https://www.amazon.com/dp/{product_id}"
    resp = requests.get(url, proxies=proxy.to_dict())

    if resp.status_code == 200:
        parse_product(resp.text)
    # No need to handle 403/429 — HydraSkill auto-heals

# Done — release the proxy
proxy.release()

Node.js Example

import { ProxyClient } from 'hydraskill';

const client = new ProxyClient({ apiKey: process.env.HYDRASKILL_API_KEY });

const proxy = await client.getProxy({
  target: 'amazon.com',
  sessionLock: true,
  country: 'US',
});

const response = await fetch('https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09V3KXJPB', {
  agent: proxy.toAgent(),
});

console.log(response.status); // 200
await proxy.release();

Next Steps

• Session Lock — understand IP binding
• Auto-Heal — how failover works
• API Reference — full endpoint docs