Start by going to the configuration tab of the proxy you want to configure.

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Proxy type

Choose one of three Proxy types (IPs types) for your proxy zone:

Shared proxies

When you need a cost-efficient option, and you don’t require IP exclusivity. These proxies will rotate, so in every request you can get a new IP address (“Rotating proxies”).

Proxies are shared across multiple users.

Shared IPv6 Proxies

IPv6 proxies worldwide: Rotating IPv6 proxies in multiple location.

New IPv6 feature offerred to selected customers only.

Dedicated proxies

When you need an exclusive access to a set of specific domains, with minimal to no rotation at all.

Proxies are used by you only towards the specified target domains.

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Configuring Residential shared proxies (Rotating proxies)

Bright data will automatically assign a new proxy for each of your requests. You can control the behavior of the shared proxies as well as rotation using control panel settings and proxy options which are relayed in the proxy username parameter.

Most common setup is the Geolocation targeting allowing you to route your requests via proxies in specified location. You can select a default location - which will route all requests thru specific locations via our control panel.

Best practice: set up a separate residential proxy zone, for each geolocation you wish to target.

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Geolocation resolution options

Geolocation targeting allows you to target specific locations based on country,city, state, zip code, or ASN. Select the resolution from the drop-down menu in your geolocation settings:

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Shared pool default countries’ selection

When selecting countries in shared pool configuration, we will assign proxies only from the locations you select. You can select none (which meand we will assign the next random proxy from the pool), one or more countries. Read more…

You can override the default selection or explicitly assign a specific country for your peer during rotation, use the flag -country in the proxy user name parameter with an ISO-3166 country code.

FAQ: Where can I see the list of country codes?

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Configuring IPv6 Shared residential proxies

The configuration of IPv6 shared residential proxies is exactly the same as IPv4. Only difference is that IPs which we will assign will be IPv6.

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Configuring dedicated residential proxies access

Our dedicated residential proxies are accessible only to customers who were verified by our compliance department (Full mode). Customers with “Immediate access” mode will see this option as disabled in our control panel. To read more about it visit: https://docs.brightdata.com/proxy-networks/residential/network-access.

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IP Groups gIPs

Only works with the Dedicated option

gIP contains between 6-90 IPs at any given moment while sharing the same attributes, targeting the selected dedicated domains within the zone “Configuration” section. gIPs are used by Bright Data to create a single identifier for this group of proxies (with distinct IP addresses). Those proxies will be used explicitly by you towards the domains you target.

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Domains

Only works with the Dedicated option

Define the domains you’d like your proxies to be exclusive to. Every request to a domain in this list is served thru your dedicated proxies exclusively. No one else is allowed to target those domains via your dedicated proxies. You can use this zone for requests to other target domains, yet those requests will be served thru our datacenter hosted Bright Data proxies.

For example: if in the list you have two domains: a.com and b.com, every request to a.com and b.com are routed thru your dedicated proxies, request to c.com is routed thru our datacenter hosted proxy. Requests to a.com and b.com from others will never go thru your dedicated proxies.

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Advanced Options

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Automatic Failover

In case we cannot reach the proxy peer for your request, we will route the request to another available peer. Automatic failover does not apply when you choose default countries: if we cannot find a peer in the country you selected, we will fail the request with error.

Enabling automatic failover assures execution of the request, regardless of the availability of a specific peer.

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Special Ports & Protocols

Ports 80 and 443 are available by default, supporting HTTP and HTTPS & SOCKS5 protocols. We also support all ports over 1024 in our Datacenter proxy network. Read more on ports and protocols…

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Zone usage limit

Set usage limit to your zone: you can limit spending or traffic. This provides additional layer of control to your budget and bandwidth consumption, mostly over our rotating shared pool proxies.

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Long-session peers: Deprecated

Bright Data used to offer long session peers. This is no longer offered, account which had zone configured with long session peers will still be able to use them.

To see how to direct requests to explicit proxies, or create a sequence of requests with the same context (session) routed thru the same proxy peer see here: https://docs.brightdata.com/api-reference/proxy/rotate_ips#proxy-and-ip-rotation-control