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# How to connect to residential proxies?

You can set up your proxy with regional and session type settings by accessing our Proxy Setup, authenticating with username/password or API (IP whitelist). First, log in to the dashboard, select the corresponding proxy product, and then configure the following settings in the proxy settings:

### Username/password 

1\. Add a sub-user: used to authenticate access. 

2\. Location settings: specify country, state or city. 

3\. Session type: rotating or sticky(residential proxies - IPs do not have this option). 

4\. Proxy hosts: choose the host and port. 

5\. Once the proxy list is generated, you can use them in your scripts. 

### API 

1\. Add IP whitelist: to allow access to retrieve proxy IPs by calling the API interface. 

2\. Location settings: specify country, state or city. 

3\. Number of proxies: choose the number of IPs you need to extract, you can extract up to 900 IPs at once. 

4\. Parameters configuration: proxy protocol, output format and a delimiter. 

5\. Generate API link, once the proxy list is retrieved, you can use them in your scripts.<br>