# yinghuocho/firefly-proxy

A proxy software to help circumventing the Great Firewall.

Repository: https://github.com/yinghuocho/firefly-proxy
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/firefly-proxy
Language: Go
License: BSD-2-Clause
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2018-11-14T09:18:47+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 23/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4320, "days_push": 2849, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 4807, forks 855 (observed 2026-08-28T04:09:00.244686+00:00)

## What it is
Firefly is a cross-platform proxy client written in Go designed to circumvent the Great Firewall of China, with builds for Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, and iOS. It bundles a proxy/VPN client experience inspired by projects like Lantern and tun2socks.

## Use cases
- bypass the great firewall
- access blocked websites from china
- proxy client for android and ios
- circumvent internet censorship
- self-hosted proxy to get past the gfw

## When to choose
- you need a lightweight censorship-circumvention proxy on Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, or iOS
- you want an open-source alternative to Lantern-style tools

## When to avoid
- you need actively maintained software - the last release was in 2018
- you need a general-purpose VPN rather than a censorship-circumvention proxy
- you require modern protocol support or recent security patches

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: abandoned
- function: proxy, vpn, privacy, networking
- domain: censorship-circumvention, privacy, networking
- platform: windows, cross-platform
- tags: great-firewall, anti-censorship, go, vpn-client, last-release-2018, macos, linux, android, ios

## Member repositories
- yinghuocho/firefly-proxy (main) score 23

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:00.244686+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T18:18:36.515563+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/yinghuocho/firefly-proxy (fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:00.244686+00:00, sha 15714a9d7289)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.