# haad/proxychains

proxychains - a tool that forces any TCP connection made by any given application to follow through proxy like TOR or any other SOCKS4, SOCKS5 or HTTP(S) proxy.  Supported auth-types: "user/pass" for SOCKS4/5, "basic" for HTTP.

Repository: https://github.com/haad/proxychains
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/proxychains
Homepage: http://proxychains.sourceforge.net/
Language: C
License: GPL-2.0
License Family: copyleft
Last push: 2024-06-08T02:20:54+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 32/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:39:23.370411+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 5668, "days_push": 817, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 7938, forks 679 (observed 2026-08-28T04:10:09.992232+00:00)

## What it is
ProxyChains is a UNIX command-line tool that forces TCP connections and DNS lookups of any dynamically linked program through SOCKS4/5 or HTTP(S) proxies, including TOR. It works by hooking network-related libc functions via a preloaded shared library and supports chaining multiple proxies together.

## Use cases
- route any program's traffic through tor or a socks proxy
- hide my ip address when using ssh or wget
- access the internet from behind a restrictive firewall
- chain multiple proxies together for a tcp connection
- resolve dns through a proxy to reach onion urls
- run nmap or apt through a proxy server

## When to choose
- you need to proxify existing dynamically linked unix programs without modifying them
- you want to tunnel TCP and DNS through SOCKS4/5, HTTP, or TOR proxies
- you need to mix different proxy types in one chain

## When to avoid
- the target program is statically linked or uses a different libc
- you need per-application GUI proxy configuration on Windows
- you need a transparent system-wide VPN-style solution

## Facets
- artifact type: cli-tool
- maturity: maintenance
- function: proxy, networking, security, privacy
- domain: security, privacy, networking, censorship-circumvention
- platform: bsd, cli
- tags: proxifier, socks5, http-proxy, tor, ld-preload, dns-tunneling, c, command-line, linux, macos

## Member repositories
- haad/proxychains (main) score 32

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:10:09.992232+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 2026-08-29T17:33:14.147999+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/haad/proxychains (fetched 2026-08-28T04:10:09.992232+00:00, sha 670561ccb16c)
  - homepage: http://proxychains.sourceforge.net/ (fetched 2026-08-29T08:29:58.020392+00:00, sha 584e13ecb8aa)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.