[Name]
PROXC (proxc)

[Version]
1.0.6

[Homepage]
https://github.com/Mithun202008/proxychk

[Download]
https://github.com/Mithun202008/proxychk/releases/tag/v1.0.6

[Author]
Mithun A

[Licence]
MIT License

[Description]
PROXC is a lightweight cross-platform command-line Proxy Liveness Checker and Security Toolkit.

It validates HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS4 and SOCKS5 proxies and supports bulk proxy lists, protocol auto-detection, configurable timeouts, concurrent workers, real-time streaming output, target URLs and working-proxy output.

The project is intended for legitimate network security testing, proxy validation and security assessment workflows.

[Dependencies]
Python 3

The Debian package declares:
python3:any

[Similar tools]
There are various proxy-checking scripts and utilities available. PROXC focuses on a lightweight CLI workflow with support for multiple proxy protocols, bulk processing, concurrent checking and streaming results.

[Activity]
The project is actively maintained.

Current upstream release:
v1.0.6

[How to install]
The upstream repository contains Debian packaging in the debian/ directory.

The v1.0.6 Debian package was successfully built and tested on Kali Linux:

proxc_1.0.6-0kali1_all.deb

The package can be installed locally with:

sudo apt install ./proxc_1.0.6-0kali1_all.deb

After installation:

proxc --version

returns:

1.0.6

[How to use]

Display help:

proxc --help

Check a proxy list:

proxc proxies.txt

Check a single proxy:

proxc 1.2.3.4 8080

Check a SOCKS5 proxy:

proxc 1.2.3.4 1080 socks5

Check a proxy URL:

proxc socks5://user:[email protected]:1080

[Testing]
The upstream test suite currently contains 7 tests.

All 7 tests pass:

python3 -m unittest discover -s tests -v

The Debian package was also successfully built and installed on Kali Linux.

[Packaged]
Yes.

Debian packaging is included in the upstream repository under debian/.

The package has been successfully built and tested locally on Kali Linux as:

proxc_1.0.6-0kali1_all.deb

The requested goal is inclusion in the official Kali Linux repositories so that users can eventually install it using:

sudo apt update
sudo apt install proxc