what is free-proxy-list fr?

This repository is an automatically generated list of free public proxy servers, covering HTTP, SOCKS4, and SOCKS5 protocols. A script checks each proxy and refreshes the whole list every 30 minutes, tagging every entry with its country and response latency. At the time this README was captured it held 200 proxies. The data is provided as plain text files, one per protocol plus a combined file, and a structured JSON file that includes protocol, country, latency, and when each proxy was last checked. You can pull the current list directly with a single curl command pointed at the raw file on GitHub, without needing to clone the repository or run any code. The README is direct about the limits of this data: public proxies are unstable by nature, often stop working within minutes or hours, and are shared with strangers rather than being private to you. It describes this list as a small sample meant for testing, learning, and quick experiments rather than serious or reliable use. The full README also promotes a paid service from the same maintainer offering a much larger, continuously checked proxy pool with country, protocol, and site specific filtering, plus rotating residential and mobile IP options. Two companion projects are linked for using these proxies in practice: one is a rotating proxy pool tool for scraping frameworks like Scrapy and Playwright, and the other is a one-click proxy switcher browser extension for Chrome. The repository itself contains no application code, only auto-generated data files updated on a schedule.