OS Targeting

Operating system targeting comes as standard with residential data purchases. You can target proxies on devices running the following operating systems: windows, linux, and android.

BETA: we cannot guarantee that OS targeting will persist in the future for our residential network proxies.

Limiting the operating system of your proxies reduces the number of available proxies. Unless you specifically need proxies from devices running a specific operating system then we generally recommend leaving this feature off. You can specify an operating system for a proxy by adding the OS in this format: _os_{operating_system} to the username field of the proxy.

# Generate 5 proxies from devices running Linux
curl --request GET \
  --url 'https://api.byteful.com/1.0/public/user/residential/list?os_alias=linux&list_count=5' \
  --header 'X-API-Public-Key: your_public_key' \
  --header 'X-API-Private-Key: your_private_key'

This will return proxies exclusively from devices running the specified operating system:

{
  "data": [
    "residential.byteful.com:8065:your_user_os_linux_s_TNJJENYJ5F4802LK:your_password",
    "residential.byteful.com:8668:your_user_os_linux_s_RK9TB7HK0CIW0TC0:your_password",
    "residential.byteful.com:8688:your_user_os_linux_s_PGSQD4C0LTV2UZ8B:your_password",
    "residential.byteful.com:8811:your_user_os_linux_s_7QA931N9NE57I87U:your_password",
    "residential.byteful.com:8628:your_user_os_linux_s_WPNYF1EMPF9UKSNH:your_password"
  ],
  "message": "Residential list successfully generated."
}

Combining OS Targeting with Other Filters

For advanced targeting, you can combine OS targeting with geolocation targeting:

# Generate 3 proxies from Windows devices in the US
curl --request GET \
  --url 'https://api.byteful.com/1.0/public/user/residential/list?country_id=us&os_alias=windows&list_count=3' \
  --header 'X-API-Public-Key: your_public_key' \
  --header 'X-API-Private-Key: your_private_key'

Dashboard Generation

You can also easily generate OS targeted proxies through our dashboard interface by selecting the desired operating system from the dropdown menu in the residential proxy generator. For more information on generating residential proxies, see the Generating Residential Proxies guide.

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