Mitmproxy is configured through a set of files in the users ~/.mitmproxy directory.

mitmproxy.conf	Settings for the mitmproxy. This file can contain any options supported by mitmproxy.
mitmdump.conf	Settings for the mitmdump. This file can contain any options supported by mitmdump.
common.conf	Settings shared between all command-line tools. Settings in this file are over-ridden by those in the tool-specific files. Only options shared by mitmproxy and mitmdump should be used in this file.

Syntax

Comments

# this is a comment
; this is also a comment (.ini style)
--- and this is a comment too (yaml style)

Key/Value pairs

Keys and values are case-sensitive
Whitespace is ignored
Lists are comma-delimited, and enclosed in square brackets

name = value   # (.ini style) 
name: value    # (yaml style)
--name value   # (command-line option style)

fruit = [apple, orange, lemon]
indexes = [1, 12, 35 , 40]

Flags

These are boolean options that take no value but true/false.

name = true    # (.ini style)
name
--name         # (command-line option style)

Options

The options available in the config files are precisely those available as command-line flags, with the key being the option's long name. To get a complete list of these, use the --help option on each of the tools. Be careful to only specify common options in the common.conf file - unsupported options in this file will be detected as an error on startup.

Examples

common.conf

Note that port is an option supported by all tools.

port = 8080

mitmproxy.conf

palette = light

configuration