How to bulk import a proxy list into Chrome

Proxy sellers deliver lists as text files, dashboards exports or CSV — and rarely in the same format twice. Most proxy switchers make you create proxies one by one, splitting host, port, username and password into separate fields. With 50 or 500 proxies that is an afternoon of copy-paste.

What a good importer should handle

• Different layouts in the same paste: ip:port, ip:port:user:pass, user:pass:ip:port, user:pass@ip:port, ip:port@user:pass.
• Scheme URLs: http://, https://, socks5://, socks4://, with URL-encoded passwords (%40 for @).
• Passwords containing : or @.
• CSV rows (ip,port,user,pass) and header lines, comments, blank lines and Windows line endings.
• A name after the proxy: 203.0.113.10:8080:user:pass US-East-1.
• Duplicates — skipped, not added twice.
• Bad lines reported with their line number instead of failing the whole paste.

Importing with ProxyNest

1. Open Manage → Proxies and paste the list into the box. The preview tells you how many proxies were found, how many were already added and which lines could not be read.
2. Pick the type for lines without a scheme (HTTP is the usual default; choose SOCKS5 if your seller says so).
3. Optionally enter a group such as “US residential” so you can filter, rotate and route by group later.
4. Leave Check after import on: every new proxy gets its speed, exit IP and location measured, six at a time.
5. Use Remove dead to delete those that failed.

Exporting again

You can copy or download the list in ip:port:user:pass, user:pass@ip:port or URL form — handy when another tool wants a different layout. A JSON backup keeps groups, rules and settings too.

Tips

• Sticky-session logins (e.g. user-session-abc123) on the same gateway count as different proxies — that is intended.
• If your provider gives both an HTTP and a SOCKS5 port, import the HTTP one when it uses a password; Chrome cannot log in to SOCKS5.