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Dev tools · April 21, 2019

Pichi – An application-layer proxy which can be controlled via API

A flexible Rule-Based Proxy. Contribute to pichi-router/pichi development by creating an account on GitHub.

Pichi – An application-layer proxy which can be controlled via API launched on April 21, 2019 with 44 votes, #836 of 3,128 launches that month and more than 90% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 7 years on.

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Pichi is an application-layer proxy that can be controlled through an API. It's designed for developers who need to manage network traffic at the application level with programmatic control. The proxy allows users to configure and adjust routing and traffic handling dynamically via API calls rather than static configuration files, making it useful for testing, traffic management, and integration scenarios where flexible proxy control is needed.

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