How to set proxy authentication (user & password) using Python + Selenium

Question

I am using Firefox WebDriver in Python 2.7 with Selenium. My python program starts Firefox browser and visits different websites when I run the program. But, I need to set t

Answer 1

There is an example for Firefox + Python but without the authentication here. Then you can find other available parameters here in source code. So it looks like you need the following:

socksUsername
socksPassword

For example:

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.proxy import *

myProxy = "host:8080"

proxy = Proxy({
    'proxyType': ProxyType.MANUAL,
    'httpProxy': myProxy, # set this value as desired
    'ftpProxy': myProxy,  # set this value as desired
    'sslProxy': myProxy,  # set this value as desired
    'noProxy': ''         # set this value as desired
    'socksUsername': = ''
    'socksPassword': = ''
    })

driver = webdriver.Firefox(proxy=proxy)

or with preferences:

driverPref = webdriver.FirefoxProfile()
driverPref.set_preference("network.proxy.type", 1)
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.
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driverPref.set_preference('network.proxy.socks', proxyHost)
driverPref.set_preference('network.proxy.socks_port', proxyPort)
driverPref.update_preferences()

driver = webdriver.Firefox(firefox_profile=driverPref)

EDIT:

I looked at it again and it seems that it is impossible to set authentication details in FF, even manually. The only way is just to remember the details that you have already entered which done by 2 parameters:

signon.autologin.proxy=true
network.websocket.enabled=false

that can be configured with the set_preference() method. You can also manually view all FF options by browsing to about:config.