Scrapoxy – End of Life Q&A

Why is Scrapoxy being discontinued?

Several factors made it impossible to continue.

Scrapoxy grew from a personal open-source project into production-critical infrastructure for many companies. With that growth came a constant stream of feature requests, support demands, and rising infrastructure costs, particularly for the fingerprinting and GeoIP services that power proxy validation, geolocation checks, and online status verification. These services are expensive, and I covered them out of pocket for years.

To sustain the project, I introduced paid enterprise support and restricted the source code after competitors reused it verbatim to build their own commercial products. The tool itself remained free to use, but the reality is that very few users chose to pay for support, even those running Scrapoxy in critical production pipelines.

Without enough paying users to cover the costs, continuing to maintain Scrapoxy and its infrastructure was no longer viable. I'd rather stop cleanly than let the project slowly degrade.

What happens to existing enterprise support subscribers?

Nothing changes. You already received a dedicated version of Scrapoxy distributed exclusively to enterprise subscribers, with continued access to the fingerprinting infrastructure. You will continue to receive support until the end of your current contract, under the same terms you signed up for.

Can I purchase a new support subscription or an extended transition contract?

No. Sales of support subscriptions have been closed. No new enterprise support contracts or professional licenses are available. Only users who already had an active subscription at the time of the announcement will continue to receive support.

Why was there no advance notice before the shutdown?

Enterprise support subscribers were informed ahead of time and had the opportunity to prepare their transition. For all other users, Scrapoxy was provided for free, with no contractual relationship and no service-level commitment. There was no obligation to provide a transition period, and none was offered.

Will the Docker images remain available on registries?

No. Docker images have been removed from public registries. If you were running Scrapoxy, you should plan your migration now.

Will the documentation remain available?

Public documentation has been taken down. Documentation remains accessible only to existing enterprise support subscribers through their dedicated version.

Will the fingerprinting infrastructure keep running?

The public fingerprinting infrastructure has been shut down. This includes GeoIP lookups, proxy online status checks, and country verification. This was one of the most expensive parts of running Scrapoxy and could not be maintained without revenue.

Enterprise support subscribers continue to have access to the fingerprinting services through their dedicated version, under the same terms as their contract.

For everyone else, losing this infrastructure means that a significant portion of Scrapoxy's core functionality no longer works, even with an existing local installation.

Will the source code be released as open source?

No. The source code was open during the early versions of Scrapoxy. It was restricted when important features were added and competitors began copying the codebase to launch their own commercial services. The code remains the intellectual property of its creator and will not be released.

Can I fork Scrapoxy?

No. Scrapoxy is under a commercial license that prohibits forking, redistribution, and derivative works. This applies even now that the software has been discontinued. The intellectual property remains protected, and any unauthorized copy or fork will be treated as a license violation.

Is there a recommended alternative?

There are some open-source alternatives in the proxy management space, though none currently match Scrapoxy's breadth of connectors. There are also commercial proxy management services available. I won't make specific recommendations, but the ecosystem has options if you look around.