How to add proxies to a sneaker bot: Valor, NSB and others

What you need

• A running bot. This guide covers Valor AIO and NSB step by step, based on their current documentation, and the general pattern for other bots.
• A proxy list in ip:port:user:pass format. Static ISP IPs suit Nike, footsites and Pokémon Center; see which proxy type to use if you are unsure.
• One proxy per task. Ten tasks need ten lines. Valor's Pokémon Center guide advises not running more than one task per proxy.

Run the bot close to the proxies. NSB suggests picking proxies near your server, or near New York or Chicago if you run from home.

Copy the list from ProxyLane

ProxyLane exports Native ISP orders in the exact format both bots expect.

1. Open Dashboard → ISP Proxies and find your order.
2. Click View on the order.
3. Set Protocol to HTTP/HTTPS.
4. Set Format to ip:port:user:pass.
5. Click Copy, or .txt to download the list as a file.

The copied text includes the full passwords even while the preview hides them. The list looks like this (example addresses):

203.0.113.24:8000:pl_7f3a:Xk2v9QeL
203.0.113.87:8000:pl_7f3a:Xk2v9QeL
198.51.100.15:8000:pl_7f3a:Xk2v9QeL

Keep the file private. Anyone with these lines can use your IPs until you change the order.

Valor AIO

Valor groups proxies into named lists and lets each task pick one. The steps below follow Valor's proxies guide.

1. Click Proxies in the top navigation.
2. Click the blue Add icon and give the group a name, for example nike-us-isp.
3. Paste the list into the text area, each proxy on a new line, in ip:port:user:pass format.
4. Click Save List. The proxies appear in the proxy table.
5. To test, choose the site from the dropdown and click Test All, or test one proxy with its action button.
6. In each task, pick the group in the Proxy Group (optional) field.

Valor also has Import and Export buttons for one group or all groups, which helps when you move the bot to a new server.

Read the tester result carefully. Valor's guide says testing only shows whether the proxies can connect to the selected site, not whether they are good for checkout. For Pokémon Center it recommends ISP proxies and one task per proxy.

NSB

NSB calls them proxy lists and accepts IP:PORT:USERNAME:PASSWORD or IP:PORT in that exact format. The steps follow NSB's proxies and tasks guides.

1. Open the Proxies tab in the left menu.
2. Press + at the top left to add a proxy list.
3. Name the list, paste the proxies and press Submit.
4. Click Latency Check at the top right, pick the site from the dropdown and read the status and ping for each proxy.
5. When you create a task, choose the list at the step Select Billing Profile & Proxy List.

NSB notes that you can't import proxies from other bots, so paste the raw list rather than an export file from another tool. Its FAQ recommends ISPs for Nike and residential mainly for Shopify sites with bot protection.

Other bots

Cybersole, Wrath, Kodai and most other retail bots follow the same pattern, but their current proxy docs sit behind the customer dashboard, so we could not check their exact screens. The steps are usually:

1. Find the proxy or proxy list section and create a new group.
2. Paste the list in ip:port:user:pass format, one per line.
3. Run the bot's proxy tester against the target site.
4. Assign the group to tasks so each task takes its own line.

If a bot rejects the list, check whether it wants user:pass@ip:port instead. ProxyLane's Format menu also exports user:pass@ip:port and protocol://user:pass@ip:port.

Check the list outside the bot

A bot tester shows connection and ping. To also see which country and provider each IP belongs to, save the list as proxies.txt and run this from the bot's machine:

import time

import requests

for line in open("proxies.txt"):
    host, port, user, password = line.strip().split(":")
    proxy = f"http://{user}:{password}@{host}:{port}"
    started = time.monotonic()
    info = requests.get(
        "https://ipinfo.io/json",
        proxies={"http": proxy, "https": proxy},
        timeout=15,
    ).json()
    ms = round((time.monotonic() - started) * 1000)
    print(host, info.get("country"), info.get("org"), f"{ms} ms")

Accept a line when it prints the country you ordered, an internet provider in org and a response time that fits your setup. For a single IP, cURL does the same job:

curl -x http://USER:PASS@203.0.113.24:8000 -w "\n%{time_total}s\n" https://ipinfo.io/json

Avoid pasting real passwords into shell history on shared machines.

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Next steps

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