# Using mitmproxy APIs
**URL:** https://discourse.mitmproxy.org/t/using-mitmproxy-apis/813
**Category:** help
**Created:** [January 26, 2018, 11:04am UTC](https://discourse.mitmproxy.org/t/using-mitmproxy-apis/813 "2018-01-26T11:04:24Z")
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### Author:  [@H0nus](https://discourse.mitmproxy.org/u/H0nus)
#### Post date: [January 26, 2018, 11:04am UTC](https://discourse.mitmproxy.org/t/using-mitmproxy-apis/813/1 "2018-01-26T11:04:24Z")
I have just a question, can i use mitmproxy (the lib) in python, without using mitmproxy to fire it up?
If yes, how? I din’t find much on internet, and i didn’t uderstand much on official api docs.
An example: i wrote a little script with `import mitmproxy` and some other things with his api and classes;
Can i use it on my own (like: `python3.6 file.py` ) or I need to use mitmproxy? (like: `mitmproxy -s file.py` )
Sorry for bad english or anything.
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### Author:  [@mhils](https://discourse.mitmproxy.org/u/mhils)
#### Post date: [January 26, 2018, 12:07pm UTC](https://discourse.mitmproxy.org/t/using-mitmproxy-apis/813/2 "2018-01-26T12:07:22Z")
You can use mitmproxy as a library, what exactly you want to do really depends on what you are actually trying to achieve. In general, just running mitmproxy itself will probably be easier. 🙂
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### Author:  [@H0nus](https://discourse.mitmproxy.org/u/H0nus)
#### Post date: [January 26, 2018, 5:45pm UTC](https://discourse.mitmproxy.org/t/using-mitmproxy-apis/813/3 "2018-01-26T17:45:10Z")
Ok, so it’s possible to use it like in a external tool/script (so starting the server too and similar things) ? withot using directly the binaries (mitmdump,mitmproxy,mitmweb)