When should you use the proxy?
- You want to make authenticated API requests directly from your backend
- You want automatic retries and rate-limit handling for your API requests
- You want your API requests to be logged in Nango
- Fetching files and other large binary content from an external API
- Running API requests directly from your backend to an external API
- Allowing AI agents to make arbitrary, authenticated API requests to an external API
Key facts
- The proxy forwards API requests from your backend to the external API and back
- Nango automatically adds any required authentication or API-specific config (e.g., subdomain) to the API request
- Nango can optionally retry failed requests and handle rate limits
- Proxied API requests are executed 1:1 against the external API, and its response is transferred back to you without modification
- All proxy requests are logged in Nango’s logs
How the proxy works
Overview of the proxy in Nango