DigitalOcean proxy

A shell script to run a disposable proxy on a DigitalOcean droplet

Features

Allows starting and stopping a disposable proxy on a DigitalOcean droplet
Access to proxy is whitelisted by the public IP of the system starting the proxy
Based on squid proxy

Requirements

DigitalOcean account and API token
curl
jq v1.3+

Tested on Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS with

curl v7.35.0
jq v1.3

Installation

Clone the repository
Make script file executable
```
 chmod +x ./proxy-droplet.sh
```

Configuration

Set the follwing environment variables used by the script

# Set DigitalOcean API token
export DIGITALOCEAN_TOKEN='<your-token>'
# Set SSH key to use
export SSH_KEY=<path-to-key>

Usage

Synopsis

./proxy-droplet.sh <command>

where <command> can be one of the following commands

start:

Start the proxy droplet (creates a new droplet)
stop:

Stop the proxy droplet (deletes the droplet)
status:

Check status

Ideas

Verbose mode
Write bootstrap.sh script that pulls droplet-blueprint.json and droplet-init.sh from GitHub
Self destruction
Command to update IP whitelist
Attach iftop
Attach access log
Support different hosting providers (e.g. Linode)
Support different proxy software (e.g. Tinyproxy)
Consider porting to Python 3 to for easier distribution through PIP

Changelog

See CHANGELOG.md

License

See LICENSE file

Credits

This script was improved by some ideas and snippets from the gist by Henrik Feldt that showed me how to write a more proper shell script. Thank you Henrik.

greystitch/digitalocean-proxy