API type of Socks5 proxies: How to add password and username?

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Found and ‘started’ to use an affordable socks5 proxy service to find out that they aren’t using regular usernames and passwords to protect their proxies, instead they use API.

The problem is, that I need a username and password in order to use these proxies for tools I use.

Any idea how to convert these API proxies into username and password types of proxies?

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  1. You can’t generally convert an API token into SOCKS5 username/password credentials. The provider has to issue those credentials or support another way for your tool to access the proxy.

  2. Ask the provider whether it offers a SOCKS5 endpoint with username/password authentication, IP allowlisting, or documented API-based proxy access. Also check which of those methods your tool accepts.

  3. If the provider exposes usable upstream proxy details but your tool requires username/password, a local proxy bridge could accept those credentials from the tool and connect upstream using the provider’s method. First verify that the tool can connect through a local bridge.