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socks

Fully featured SOCKS proxy client supporting SOCKSv4, SOCKSv4a, and SOCKSv5. Includes Bind and Associate functionality.

v2.8.10, 2 Sept 2026MITCommonJSTypes: Bundled
$ npm install socks

Key numbers

As of 25 Sept 2026
Weekly downloads
43.5m
+63% over 12 months
Gzip bundle size
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No Bundlephobia data
Dependencies
2
Direct, from package.json
Last release
22 days ago
v2.8.10
GitHub stars
-
Open issues / PRs
- / -
Contributors
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Commits, last 52 weeks
-

Downloads

Last week 2026-09-15 to 2026-09-21
025m50m75m100mSept 2025Mar 2026Sept 2026High 80.3m (16 Jun 2026)Low 17.2m (23 Dec 2025)
Weekly npm downloads, one point per week, weeks starting 23 Sept 2025 to 15 Sept 2026. The y axis starts at zero.

43,506,636 downloads last week, 204,387,961 in the last month. The 12-month change of +63% compares the average of the last 4 weeks with the first 4 weeks of the series.

Releases, last 12 months
355 in total
Latest version
2.8.10, 2 Sept 202622 days ago
First published
15 Feb 2013
Last push to GitHub
-
Repository archived
-
Open issues
-
Open pull requests
-
Commits, last 52 weeks
-
Dependents on npm
813

Major versions

  1. v2 first release 2.0.0, 12 Dec 2017
  2. v1 first release 1.0.0, 26 Feb 2015
  3. v0 first release 0.0.1, 15 Feb 2013

Recent releases

VersionPublished
2.8.102 Sept 2026
2.8.98 May 2026
2.8.828 Apr 2026
2.8.712 Aug 2025
2.8.611 Jul 2025
2.8.510 Jun 2025
2.8.49 Feb 2025
2.8.310 Apr 2024
2.8.29 Apr 2024
2.8.123 Feb 2024
2.7.423 Feb 2024
2.7.312 Feb 2024
2.7.212 Feb 2024
2.8.012 Feb 2024
Module format
CommonJSFrom package.json type, main and exports fields
TypeScript types
Bundled
Node.js engine range
>= 10.0.0
Runtimes
-
Unpacked size (npm)
152 kB
Dependencies (2)
ip-addresssmart-buffer
npm install socks
  • jsDelivrhttps://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/socks@2.8.10/
  • unpkghttps://unpkg.com/socks@2.8.10/
  • esm.shhttps://esm.sh/socks@2.8.10
Sources: npm registry, npm downloads API. Data fetched 25 Sept 2026.

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