mitmproxy
Interactive HTTP/HTTPS proxy for testing and inspecting traffic.
Scraping, browsers and parsing PyPI MIT
How mitmproxy is used
mitmproxy joined the catalog on its public numbers (959,919 downloads a week on PyPI and 45,766 GitHub stars), not on our project count: it is a dependency in 5 public GitHub projects of our scan, 1 of them set up for AI coding agents. The most used alternative in our scan is Playwright (Python) (74 projects). Projects that use it most often also use Beautiful Soup (100.0%), Flask (100.0%), asgiref (80.0%).
mitmproxy popularity over time
Gid Score 51: downloads 64, use in agent projects 7, GitHub stars 75, downloads trend 56 (each 0-100). How it is calculated.
Often used with mitmproxy
| Beautiful Soup | 100.0% of mitmproxy projects · 46.3× more than average |
|---|---|
| Flask | 100.0% of mitmproxy projects · 58.0× more than average |
| asgiref | 80.0% of mitmproxy projects · 496.6× more than average |
| CFFI | 80.0% of mitmproxy projects · 124.2× more than average |
| charset-normalizer | 80.0% of mitmproxy projects · 74.1× more than average |
| Click | 80.0% of mitmproxy projects · 32.0× more than average |
| Colorama | 80.0% of mitmproxy projects · 87.1× more than average |
| cryptography | 80.0% of mitmproxy projects · 34.0× more than average |
How mitmproxy is funded
Install
| Package | pip install mitmproxy |
|---|---|
| Main stacks | Python (5) |
| Example projects | guimaizi/facai, bingal/fastdomaincheck-mcp-server-python |
Alternatives to mitmproxy
Tools that do the same job, so a project picks one or the other. Add-ons and libraries used alongside mitmproxy are not listed here; they are in "Often used with".
| Tool | Gid Score | Used in agent projects | Downloads / wk | GitHub stars | License |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Playwright (Python) pypi High-level Python API for automating browser testing and web scraping. |
76 | 74 (4.6%) | 28.4M | 15.1K | Apache-2.0 |
| Selenium pypi Official Python bindings for browser automation and web scraping. |
62 | 27 (1.7%) | 7.3M | — | Apache-2.0 |
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