AWS / EC2

Get started

Step 1: Get your AWS credentials

See Get credentials.

Remember your Access Key and Secret Access Key.

Step 2: Connect to your region

Step 3: Create a security group

See Create a security group.

Step 4: Choose an AMI

Public AMI are available for theses regions:

eu-west-1 / t1.micro: ami-c74d0db4
eu-west-1 / t2.micro: ami-485fbba5
eu-west-1 / t2.nano: ami-06220275

If you cannot find your region, you can Copy an AMI from a region to another.

Step 5: Update configuration

Open conf.json:

{
  "providers": [
    "type": "awsec2",

    "region": "eu-west-1",
    "instance": {
      "InstanceType": "t1.micro",
      "ImageId": "ami-c74d0db4",
      "SecurityGroups": [ "forward-proxy" ],
    }
  ]
}

And update region and ImageId with your parameters.

Configure Scrapoxy

Options: awsec2

For credentials, there is 2 choices:

Add credentials in the configuration file;
Or Use your own credentials (from profile, see the AWS documentation).

Option	Default value	Description
type	none	Must be awsec2
accessKeyId	none	Credentials for AWS (optional)
secretAccessKey	none	Credentials for AWS (optional)
region	none	AWS region (example: eu-west-1)
tag	Proxy	Name of the AWS / EC2 instance
instance	none	see awsec2 / instance
max	none	Maximum number of instances for this provider. If empty, there is no maximum.

Options: awsec2 / instance

Options are specific to AWS / EC2.

Scrapoxy use the method runInstances to create new instances.

Standard options are InstanceType, ImageId, KeyName, and SecurityGroups.