Topics / #socks5

Socks5 projects on GitHub

SOCKS5 proxy protocol for tunneling network traffic

As of , the most-starred Socks5 projects on GitHub are youtube-dl (141.3K stars), v2rayN (118.4K stars) and v2rayNG (64.1K stars). GitHub.Locker tracks 54 Socks5 repositories with 1.1M stars combined. The fastest-growing on October 16 was opencode2api, with +153 stars in a day.

54Projects
1.1MStars in total
+949Stars in a day

Hot right now

Most stars gained in a day · Oct 16

The all-time top

54 projects · by stars

  1. #1 · ytdl-org/youtube-dl

    youtube-dl

    youtube-dl is a command-line program to download videos from YouTube and many other video sites.

    141.3K
  2. #2 · 2dust/v2rayN

    v2rayN

    v2rayN is a free, open-source GUI client for Windows, Linux and macOS that manages proxy connections using protocols like V2Ray, Xray, sing-box, Trojan, Shadowsocks and others.

    118.4K
  3. #3 · 2dust/v2rayNG

    v2rayNG

    v2rayNG is an Android client for V2Ray that lets you connect through proxy servers using either the Xray core or the v2fly core, supporting protocols like VMess, VLESS, Trojan, Shadowsocks and SOCKS5.

    64.1K
  1. 4

    shadowsocks-windows

    59.5Kshadowsocks/shadowsocks-windows · C#

    Shadowsocks-windows is a Windows desktop client for Shadowsocks, a SOCKS5/HTTP proxy protocol designed to circumvent internet censorship, written in C#.

  2. 5

    ClashMetaForAndroid

    47.8KMetaCubeX/ClashMetaForAndroid · Kotlin

    Clash Meta for Android (CMFA) is the graphical Android app for Clash.Meta, letting you run a rule-based proxy/VPN tunnel on your phone with a UI instead of editing config files by hand.

  3. 6

    edgetunnel

    47.7Kcmliu/edgetunnel · JavaScript

    edgetunnel is a proxy service that runs on Cloudflare Workers or Pages: it serves VLESS, Trojan and Shadowsocks nodes from the edge, with a built-in admin panel and automatic subscription generation.

  4. 7

    v2ray-core

    46.9Kv2ray/v2ray-core · Go

    Project V (v2ray-core) is a set of network tools for building your own proxy network that secures your connections and helps you bypass network restrictions while protecting your privacy.

  5. 8

    Xray-core

    42.2KXTLS/Xray-core · Go

    Xray-core is the engine of 'Project X', a networking/proxy platform that implements protocols like VLESS, VMess, Trojan and Shadowsocks, with REALITY and XTLS for traffic obfuscation and censorship circumvention.

  6. 9

    croc

    40.6Kschollz/croc · Go

    croc is a command-line tool that lets any two computers simply and securely transfer files and folders, using peer-to-peer transfer with a relay fallback and end-to-end encryption.

  7. 10

    v2ray-core

    34.7Kv2fly/v2ray-core · Go

    V2Ray (Project V) is a set of network tools for building your own proxy network, encrypting your connections to protect privacy and bypass network restrictions like censorship.

  8. 11

    nps

    34.2Kehang-io/nps · Go

    NPS is a lightweight, high-performance intranet penetration (reverse proxy/tunnel) server that exposes internal network services to the outside world. It forwards tcp, udp, http(s), socks5 and other protocols, and comes with a full-featured web admin panel.

  9. 12

    shadowsocks

    33.5Kshadowsocks/shadowsocks · Python

    An encrypted SOCKS5 proxy for getting private traffic past censorship — that is what the repo's own tags (proxy, socks5, encryption, censorship) describe. It is written in Python, has been on GitHub since April 2012, and holds about 33.5k stars.

  10. 13

    ShadowsocksX-NG

    32.9Kshadowsocks/ShadowsocksX-NG · Swift

    It's the next generation of ShadowsocksX — a macOS GUI client for the Shadowsocks proxy. You add your server profiles, and it routes your Mac's traffic through them via a local proxy.

  11. 14

    CloakBrowser

    32.2KCloakHQ/CloakBrowser · Python

    A stealth Chromium browser for web scraping and automation — a real Chromium binary with fingerprints patched at the C++ source level, wrapped as a drop-in Playwright/Puppeteer replacement so antibot systems score it as a normal browser.

  12. 15

    hysteria

    22.7KHyNetworks/hysteria · Go

    Hysteria is an open-source proxy tool — powerful, lightning-fast and censorship-resistant. It routes your traffic through a server you control with a protocol built to withstand blocking.

  13. 16

    V2rayU

    20.2Kyanue/V2rayU

    V2rayU is a macOS client built on the v2ray/xray core, used for circumventing internet censorship ('scientific internet access'). It's written natively in Swift.

  14. 17

    gost

    18.2Kginuerzh/gost · Go

    GOST (GO Simple Tunnel) is a secure, multi-protocol proxy and tunnel tool written in Go. It can act as an HTTP/SOCKS5 proxy, chain multiple proxies together, and forward local or remote TCP/UDP ports through encrypted channels.

  15. 18

    goproxy

    17.1Ksnail007/goproxy · Go

    goproxy is a high-performance proxy server written in Go. A single binary handles HTTP(S), SOCKS5, SS, WebSocket, TCP and UDP proxying, plus TCP/UDP port forwarding and intranet penetration for exposing servers behind NAT.

  16. 19

    Shadowrocket-ADBlock-Rules

    16.7Kh2y/Shadowrocket-ADBlock-Rules · Python

    A collection of rule files for the iOS app Shadowrocket that let you selectively route traffic through a proxy to get around China's firewall, while also filtering out ads in web pages, apps and videos.

  17. 20

    chisel

    16.7Kjpillora/chisel · Go

    Chisel is a fast TCP/UDP tunnel transported over HTTP and secured via SSH — a single executable that runs as either client or server, mainly used for passing through firewalls or providing a secure endpoint into your network.

  18. 21

    Cloudflare-vless-trojan

    16.6Kyonggekkk/Cloudflare-vless-trojan · JavaScript

    Scripts that deploy free VLESS-WS(TLS) and Trojan-WS(TLS) proxy nodes on Cloudflare Workers/Pages, plus a local Socks5/HTTP proxy script with ECH-TLS, normal TLS or no-TLS modes for devices like soft routers.

  19. 22

    cfnew

    16.4KbyJoey/cfnew

    CFnew is a Cloudflare Workers/Pages proxy panel that generates VLESS, Trojan and xhttp nodes, converts them into subscription formats for clients like Clash, Surge, Sing-box, Loon, Quantumult X, V2ray and Shadowrocket, and lets you manage everything through a web config page backed by Cloudflare KV.

  20. 23

    shadowsocks-c

    16.2Kshadowsocks/shadowsocks-c · C++

    shadowsocks-c is a lightweight, secured SOCKS5 proxy written in pure C, built on libuv with asynchronous DNS, designed to run on embedded devices and low-end boxes as well as desktops and servers.

  21. 24

    gluetun

    15.8Kpassteque/gluetun · Go

    Gluetun is a lightweight, swiss-army-knife-like VPN client packaged as a single small Docker container. It tunnels through 20+ commercial VPN providers via OpenVPN or Wireguard and lets other containers or LAN devices share that connection.

  22. 25

    httpx

    15.6Kencode/httpx · Python

    HTTPX is a fully featured HTTP client library for Python 3, with a broadly requests-compatible API, HTTP/1.1 and HTTP/2 support, and both sync and async interfaces. It also ships with an integrated command-line client.

  23. 26

    brook

    15.2Ktxthinking/brook · Go

    Brook is a cross-platform programmable network tool that works as both a server and a client, giving you SOCKS5 proxying, TLS encryption, traffic decryption/MITM inspection, and packet capture in one toolkit.

  24. 27

    BPB-Worker-Panel

    13.7Kbia-pain-bache/BPB-Worker-Panel · TypeScript

    BPB Panel is a self-hosted GUI you deploy on your own Cloudflare Workers or Pages account to generate VLESS, Trojan and Warp proxy configs, plus a private DoH server, so you can bypass ISP blocking.

  25. 28

    haoel.github.io

    13.1Khaoel/haoel.github.io · Shell

    A long-form Chinese guide by Bilibili engineer 左耳朵 (haoel) that walks through everything needed to bypass internet censorship (the GFW) by renting your own VPS and self-hosting a proxy, from choosing a server all the way to configuring clients on every device.

  26. 29

    TikTok-Unlock

    12.2KSemporia/TikTok-Unlock · JavaScript

    A README-based guide and rule-set for unlocking region-locked TikTok content on iPhone/iPad without swapping SIM cards, covering region switching, video posting, live streaming, likes, comments, and DMs.

  27. 30

    smartdns

    11.3Kpymumu/smartdns · C

    SmartDNS is a local DNS server that forwards each query to multiple upstream DNS servers, measures which resolved IP responds fastest, and returns that IP to the client for a faster browsing experience. It also supports DoT, DoH, DoQ and DoH3 for privacy and can act as an ad filter by mapping specific domains to chosen IPs.

  28. 31

    fancyss_history_package

    11Khq450/fancyss_history_package

    This repository stores offline installation packages for the fancyss plugin, a proxy tool that lets Asuswrt/Asuswrt-Merlin routers bypass the GFW using protocols like Shadowsocks, V2ray, Xray, Trojan, and Hysteria2.

  29. 32

    shadowsocks-rust

    10.9Kshadowsocks/shadowsocks-rust · Rust

    A Rust port of shadowsocks — a fast tunnel proxy that helps you bypass firewalls. It ships both ends of the tunnel: sslocal as your local client and ssserver as the remote relay.

  30. 33

    proxychains-ng

    10.7Krofl0r/proxychains-ng · C

    ProxyChains-NG is a UNIX program that hooks network-related libc functions in dynamically linked programs via LD_PRELOAD and redirects their TCP connections through SOCKS4a/5 or HTTP proxies. It is the continuation of the unmaintained proxychains project.

  31. 34

    clash

    9.8Kclashbk/clash

    This is a Chinese-language navigation page that aggregates official download links, backup mirrors, and tutorials for various Clash-based proxy clients (FlClash, Clash Verge Rev, ClashMi, ClashX, Shadowrocket, etc.) across Windows, macOS, Linux, Android and iOS.

  32. 35

    tailcat

    8.4Ktailscale/tailcat · Go

    Tailcat is like netcat but running over Tailscale's encrypted data plane (WireGuard + magicsock + DERP) without needing Tailscale's control plane or a Tailscale account. One side runs a tailcat server and gets a short address; the other side connects to it, and traffic is end-to-end encrypted and NAT-traversed automatically.

  33. 36

    grok2api

    7.8Kchenyme/grok2api · Go

    Grok2API is a self-hosted Go gateway that pools multiple Grok Build, Grok Web, and Grok Console accounts and exposes them through unified OpenAI- and Anthropic-compatible APIs, with a built-in React admin dashboard.

  34. 37

    ProxyBridge

    6.8KInterceptSuite/ProxyBridge · C

    ProxyBridge is a cross-platform proxy client that transparently redirects TCP and UDP traffic from specific Windows/macOS/Linux applications through SOCKS5 or HTTP proxies, acting as an open-source alternative to Proxifier.

  35. 38

    telemt

    5.7Ktelemt/telemt · Rust

    Telemt is a fast, secure, feature-rich MTProxy server for Telegram, built in Rust with Tokio, implementing the official MTProto proxy algorithm plus extra production-ready features.

  36. 39

    antigravity-proxy

    4.5Kyuaotian/antigravity-proxy · C++

    Antigravity-Proxy is a Windows DLL injector that forces the Antigravity code editor (and its CLI) to route its network traffic through your SOCKS5/HTTP proxy, without needing Clash's TUN mode.

  37. 40

    mhr-cfw

    4.4Kdenuitt1/mhr-cfw · Python

    MHR-CFW is a domain-fronting relay that disguises your traffic as requests to an allowed domain like Google, routing it through Google Apps Script and a Cloudflare Worker before fetching the real site. It's built to bypass DPI (deep packet inspection) based network filtering.

  38. 41

    MasterHttpRelayVPN

    3.9Kmasterking32/MasterHttpRelayVPN · Python

    MasterHttpRelayVPN is a local proxy that routes your browser traffic through a Google Apps Script relay using domain fronting and MITM TLS interception, designed to evade DPI and censorship.

  39. 42

    MasterHttpRelayVPN-RUST

    3.6Ktherealaleph/MasterHttpRelayVPN-RUST · Rust

    It is a Rust port of MasterHttpRelayVPN, a free DPI/censorship-bypass tool that routes your traffic through a Google Apps Script you deploy in your own Google account, using TLS SNI concealment so your ISP only sees a connection to www.google.com.

  40. 43

    CCBaga

    2.4Kliseami/CCBaga · Rust

    CCBaga is a native macOS toolkit that bundles two apps to clean Claude-related data, rotate your browser fingerprint, align system region settings, and verify your real network exit with measured checks.

  41. 44

    Open-Box

    2.2Kliandu2024/Open-Box · Shell

    Open-Box is an all-in-one transparent proxy solution for OpenWrt routers: it installs the sing-box core plus a web management panel with a single command, so you can set up proxy routing from a browser without hand-editing any config files.

  42. 45

    mtproto.zig

    2.1Ksleep3r/mtproto.zig · Zig

    mtproto.zig is a tiny self-hosted MTProto proxy for Telegram that disguises your traffic as ordinary TLS 1.3 HTTPS, so censors and DPI filters can't tell it's Telegram. You run it on your own cheap VPS and share a single tg:// link with people who want their Telegram unblocked.

  43. 46

    CFNext

    1.9KPAICNI/CFNext · JavaScript

    CFNext is a proxy subscription management panel you deploy on Cloudflare Workers or Pages; a single script both runs the actual VLESS/Trojan/XHTTP proxy and serves a /sub subscription link plus a graphical config panel.

  44. 47

    usque-custom-pro

    1.5KKJGX66F/usque-custom-pro · JavaScript

    Usque MASQUE Pro is a browser-based tool for registering Cloudflare WARP/MASQUE devices, generating proxy node configs, and converting them into Clash/Mihomo, Shadowrocket, sing-box and local VLESS bridge formats, with an optional WARP exit checker.

  45. 48

    vm2api

    1.2Kdofastted/vm2api · JavaScript

    vm2api is a self-hosted proxy that runs your Claude/Anthropic (or OpenAI-compatible) API traffic through a real-looking virtual machine or Docker 'slot' so the account looks like a genuine Claude Console client instead of relying on system-prompt tricks or persona injection.

  46. 49

    personal-edge-proxy

    1.1Kyding-git/personal-edge-proxy

    A self-hosted personal proxy architecture combining Hysteria2 as the main daily entry, Xray with VLESS+REALITY+Vision as a backup inbound, and Cloudflare WARP (plus an optional fixed SOCKS5) as outbound routing, tuned specifically for more reliable access to AI services like ChatGPT, Claude, Codex and Gemini.

  47. 50

    opencode2api

    921jasonxu114514/opencode2api · Go

    opencode2api is a Go-based proxy for the OpenCode Zen / Zen Go API that exposes standard OpenAI and Anthropic-compatible endpoints, so you can point normal OpenAI/Anthropic SDK clients at OpenCode models.

  48. 51

    Prism-Browser-Community

    690DFarm6/Prism-Browser-Community · TypeScript

    Prism Browser is a local-first, open-source fingerprint browser environment manager built on a customized Chromium and Electron. It lets you create multiple isolated browser profiles, each with its own cookies, cache, extensions, proxy settings, and fingerprint configuration.

  49. 52

    gate

    505hezhanleiok/gate · Python

    It automates scraping VPN Gate's SSTP home-broadband/datacenter nodes, verifies each one with a checker Worker, groups them by country, and publishes an auto-rotating node list that edgetunnel can pull as chained proxy entries.

  50. 53

    WhiteAestherMobile

    262WhiteDNS/WhiteAestherMobile · Rust

    WhiteAestherMobile is the native Android client for the Aether encrypted route engine. It probes for a working path out of restrictive or censored networks and routes your device's traffic through it.

  51. 54

    back4app-vless

    210KJGX66F/back4app-vless · Shell

    This project is a one-click deployment setup that runs a VLESS-over-WebSocket proxy through a Cloudflare Tunnel, hosted for free on Back4app's cloud platform, with no VPS or server management required.

Often tagged together