[Knowledge Sharing] Plex proxy settings for scraper

favoyang · November 20, 2020, 7:48am

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plex-proxy-settings-for-scrapper.md

# The Guideline to Setup Plex to Access Scraper API via Proxy on macOS

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This post helps you set up plex to access scraper API (thetvdb for example) via your proxy on macOS. Plex doesn't respect the system-level sock proxy (in Network settings), but it respects the HTTP_PROXY and HTTPS_PROXY variables.

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[Knowledge Sharing] Plex proxy settings for scraper

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