Accounts & proxies

Manage your Resy accounts, and use proxies to avoid rate limiting.

Under Accounts you can add, edit, or remove the Resy accounts SnipeSeats books through. This page also covers what a proxy is, why SnipeSeats uses them, and the two places you can add one.

What is a proxy, in plain terms?

Think of a proxy as a P.O. box for your internet traffic. Instead of Resy seeing your home internet address, it sees the proxy's address instead. That's the whole idea — it's just a stand-in address.

Why SnipeSeats needs one: rate limiting

To grab a reservation the moment it opens, SnipeSeats has to check Resy very often — way more often than a person clicking refresh. Sites like Resy notice an address that checks in that fast and can temporarily block it or slow it down. That's called rate limiting, and it's the single biggest reason a snipe can stop working out of nowhere.

A proxy avoids this because the frequent checking comes from the proxy's address instead of yours, so your everyday internet (and your Resy account's normal browsing) is never the thing getting flagged.

The two kinds of proxy in SnipeSeats

You'll see "proxy" in two different settings. They do different jobs, and you don't need both to get started — add the account proxy first, since that's the one that protects your actual reservation.

• Account proxy (set on each Resy account under Accounts) — used only for the moment SnipeSeats actually books the table. This is the one that matters most, since it protects the account that's making the reservation.
• System proxy (set under Preferences → Network) — used for the constant background checking that watches for an open table. Add this if you're running several snipes at once and want that nonstop checking to come from its own address too.

What to buy, and where to paste it

Buy a residential rotating proxy — not a free proxy, not a VPN, not a "datacenter" proxy. Residential proxies look like a normal home internet connection to Resy, which is exactly what you want. A cheap, small plan (around 1 GB) is plenty; SnipeSeats barely uses any data. A few providers people use: IPRoyal, Bright Data, Smartproxy, and AnyIP.

Whichever provider you use, they'll give you one line that looks like this:

http://username:password@host:port

Copy that whole line and paste it into the proxy field — either on a Resy account, or in Preferences → Network for the system proxy. Leave the field blank when editing an account to keep whatever proxy is already saved.