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What is Insomniac?

Insomniac is an online purchasing tool allowing you to hide your digital footprint through its multi-session browser. Insomniac browser allows you to apply one proxy per tab and hide your online footprint by applying a different IP address for every tab you open.

Maintain a consistent IP throughout your browser session by using the -session parameter in your username. This is essential because BrightData proxies default to rotating IPs with each request. Learn more

New users should begin with ISP or Data Center proxies, as residential proxies are incompatible with browser integration in Immediate-Access mode .

For use-cases related to account management, use a consistent static dedicated IP for each account you are managing. dedicated ISP proxies should be used for this.

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How to setup Insomniac with Bright Data proxies

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Using the same proxy repeatedly or rotating with new proxy every time?

Bright data offers access to two main kinds of proxies:

  1. A rotating pool of proxies
  2. A set of fixed proxies (shared with others or dedicated to you)

When choosing a proxy pool like our Datacenter, ISP or Residential shared pools, your isomniac browser does not need to handle the rotation as Bright Data will assign a new proxy for you in every session.

When you need a set of fixed proxies, like for managing social media accounts, you can load all your proxies to insomniac, and it will rotate along them, as you configure it.

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Set-up for Insomniac browser

  • Download and install the Insomniac browser
  • Open Insomniac browser
  • Click on “Global sess.” :

  • Click on “Proxy List”

  • This setup window will open, requiring you to paste your proxy configuration here.

The format required is comma separated proxy configuration: host,port,user,password .

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Integrating Insomniac with Bright Data Proxies

  • Go to your Bright Data Dashboard and click Create a Zone
  • Choose your configuration
  • Click Save
  • The zone now includes your proxy setup and in the access details you have the connection information.

If you want to use Bright Data’s rotation and use a different proxy for every session, copy and paste this setup from Bright Data’s control panel into insomniac.

If you wish to load a specific proxies (with distinguished IPs) of Datacenter or ISP, open the zone Overview tab in Bright Data control panel, and click “Download” to download the proxy list. A popup window will open with 3 formats. Insomniac needs comma separates format whch will be available soon in Bright Data. So choose colon seprated as shown here:

Open the file with a text editor, and using “Search and Replace” replace all colons with commas. Example in notepad (use Ctrl+H to open the Search and replace function):

After you copy and paste the list, you will have multiple entries of proxies in insomniac which you can order insomniac to rotate on per your desired logic.

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Integrating Multiple Proxy Manager ports with Insomniac

  • Download Proxy Manager
  • Click Add new Proxy to create a new port
  • Select the new port (24XXX)
  • Go to the General tab in the port settings
  • In the Multiply proxy port field select the number of proxy ports to create. This will create multiple proxy ports with the same settings
  • Your Spreadsheet Contains the following columns:
    • Custom Name: Add a name for each proxy
    • Host: 127.0.0.1
    • Port: 24XXX
    • Username, Password, and Tags: leave EMPTY(the Proxy Manager has already been authenticated with the Super Proxy)
  • Save the file as a CSV and not as an XLS or XLSX
  • In Insomniac Proxy per tab extension select Manage Proxy list, and select Add bulk proxies
  • Select Import proxy list and upload the CSV file

Important note:

If you are using Bright Data’s Residential Proxies, Web Unlocker or SERP API, you need to install an SSL certificate to enable end-to-end secure connections to your target website(s).

This is a simple process, see this guide for instructions.

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