Targeting in the United Kingdom
- Essential Residential
- Country, $1.50/GB
- Premium Residential
- Country, $3.00/GB
- Mobile
- Country, $3.00/GB
- City, region, postcode
- Not offered
- Network (ASN)
- Every pool above, by AS number
United Kingdom
UK residential proxies.
Residential and mobile proxies that exit in the United Kingdom, on all three pools. The country is one field of the proxy username, gb, so a UK line differs from any other by two letters.
Sign in with Google, Apple, email, a passkey or Discord. About two minutes.
gbcountry code in the username
3pools serve the United Kingdom
60 of 60sampled exits located in the United Kingdom
Up to 24 hsticky sessions, 120 min on Essential
UK proxies
Why exit in the United Kingdom?
Some pages answer differently by country: the language, the currency and the search results. A proxy that exits in the United Kingdom lets your own code request a page the way a visitor in the country does, without hosting a machine there. Typical jobs are checking how your own site or listing reads from the UK and collecting public pages from the UK edition of a site.
The country sits in the second field of the username, so a script written for one country moves to the United Kingdom by changing one string, and moves back the same way.
What you can target here
The country, on every pool.
Each pool below takes gb as its country. Nothing finer exists: no city, no nation inside the country and no postcode, because city and state targeting is a United States feature.
Every pool below takes a network by AS number next to the country. The sample further down names networks our exits were on when we ran it. A network with no exit there fails the request instead of falling back to another.
Essential Residential
Country gb, HTTP on 7777, a sticky session up to 120 minutes.
Premium Residential
Country gb, HTTP on 7777, SOCKS5 on 1080, a sticky session up to 1,440 minutes.
Mobile
Country gb, HTTP on 7777, SOCKS5 on 1080, a sticky session up to 1,440 minutes.
Copy-ready username
Two letters make the line a UK one.
The username is a row of fields joined by ~. The second one is the country, so a line for the United Kingdom carries ~gb~ and your code changes one string. USERNAME and PASSWORD are your own login, and the dashboard writes the whole line for you.
- Premium, rotating
USERNAME~gb~a2d05335- Premium, 30 min sticky
USERNAME~gb~a1682953~30- Essential, rotating
USERNAME~gb~827bc6b8~0~~rs- Mobile, 10 min sticky
USERNAME~gb~8a694a03~10~~md
$ curl -x premium.resifactory.net:7777 \
-U "USERNAME~gb~a2d05335:PASSWORD" \
https://api.ipify.org
203.0.113.42import requests
user = "USERNAME~gb~a2d05335"
proxy = f"http://{user}:[email protected]:7777"
r = requests.get("https://api.ipify.org",
proxies={"http": proxy, "https": proxy})
print(r.text)203.0.113.42 is a documentation address; yours will differ. United Kingdom addresses come back when the country field is gb.
Sample
60 of 60 sampled exits were in the United Kingdom.
On 10 November 2026 we sent requests through Premium Residential with the country set to gb, looked each exit address up in the DB-IP city database built on 1 November 2026, and counted. 60 of 60 exits were located in the United Kingdom, and 45 of the 60 were on the networks listed here.
The sample is 60 exit addresses, each a different address, taken from a new session on a rotating line every time. Cloudflare's own reading of the same addresses also placed all 60 in the United Kingdom. The networks listed are the ones in the sample that have a page in our ASN lookup, and their numbers come from the public iptoasn.com dataset dated 1 November 2026. This is a single run, and the mix changes from run to run. IP geolocation by DB-IP.
Networks in the sample
- AS2856
- BT, 16 of 60
- AS5607
- Sky, 10 of 60
- AS5089
- Virgin Media, 9 of 60
- AS13285
- TalkTalk, 6 of 60
- AS6871
- Plusnet, 4 of 60
Local settings
What a UK request looks like.
A request through a UK line should read as a request from the country. These are the settings that usually go with it. The notes beside them cite the pages they were read on.
- Search
- Google:
gl=uk,hl=en-GB - Currency
- GBP
- Time zone
- Europe/London
- Accept-Language
en-GB,en;q=0.9
Google's reference lists uk, not gb, as the value of the gl parameter for the United Kingdom, and en-GB as the interface language English (UK). Send the proxy line with the country gb and the search request with gl=uk: the two codes belong to different systems. Source, read 10 November 2026.
The Bank of England's banknotes page lists the four denominations of the banknotes in circulation in pounds (£). Source, read 10 November 2026.
The UK keeps Greenwich Mean Time in winter and British Summer Time, one hour ahead, in summer. The clocks go forward on 28 March 2027 and back on 31 October 2027. Source, read 10 November 2026.
About the country
Who provides internet access in the United Kingdom.
When the competition regulator cleared the merger of Vodafone and Three in December 2024, it named four mobile network operators in the UK: Vodafone UK, Three UK, BTEE and Virgin Media O2. Its case page calls the merged company VodafoneThree.
CMA clears Vodafone / Three merger, 5 December 2024, read 10 November 2026. Vodafone / CK Hutchison JV merger inquiry, case page, read 10 November 2026.
The sample on this page is one run on one day. It is not a list of the networks a line will exit on.
UK IP address
Get a UK IP address for testing.
To see a UK address, generate one line with the country set to gb and paste it into the proxy tester. It sends a request through the line and shows the exit address, the country it is in and the network that owns it. The ASN lookup answers the same questions for any address you already have.
A test of this size uses a tiny part of a gigabyte. The address changes on the next request unless the line holds a sticky session.
Privacy law
UK GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018.
Personal data in the United Kingdom is governed by the UK General Data Protection Regulation, with the Data Protection Act 2018 beside it. The Information Commissioner's Office is where gov.uk sends people for advice or to make a complaint. If the pages you collect hold personal data, read both texts before you store any of it.
This is a pointer to the texts, not legal advice.
Data protection, GOV.UK, read 10 November 2026. Data Protection Act 2018, legislation.gov.uk, read 10 November 2026.
Before you start
UK targeting, the details.
The code is gb, not uk.
The country field takes the ISO 3166-1 code, and for the United Kingdom that is gb. A request for uk is refused with a 422 that names gb; it is never quietly turned into a US line.
Ireland is a different token.
The Republic of Ireland is ie, a country of its own, so a test that needs Irish addresses uses that code and not gb.
A network is a request, not a promise.
A network with no exit in the United Kingdom fails the request instead of falling back to another, so check a network with a small test before a long job.
Mobile takes the country, not a carrier.
Choosing a mobile carrier is not offered. A Mobile line for gb has the same fields as the other pools.
Essential holds a session for less time.
A sticky UK session on Essential lasts up to 120 minutes. Premium holds one for up to 1,440 minutes and Mobile for up to 1,440.
Which country code do I use for the United Kingdom?
Use
gb, in the country field of the API or in the second field of the proxy username. uk is not accepted, and the error says so.Can I choose a UK city, or England against Scotland?
No. UK targeting is by country, and city targeting exists only in the United States.
Which pool is the right one for UK pages?
Start on Essential Residential for pages that only need a UK address, and move to Premium Residential when you need SOCKS5 or a longer session than Essential's. Mobile is for sites that treat a phone on a mobile network differently.
Do you sell a list of free UK proxies?
No. We do not publish free proxy lists. The free trial page says what a trial includes before you buy.
How can I check that a line exits in the UK?
Paste the line into the proxy tester. Its table gives the exit address, the location of that address and the network it belongs to, for each line you test.
Start with a single gigabyte.
Country targeting for the United Kingdom from $1.50/GB, from a prepaid wallet with no subscription.
Targeting list from the catalogue dated 10 September 2026.