Running selenium behind a proxy server

Question

I have been using selenium for automatic browser simulations and web scraping in python and it has worked well for me. But now, I have to run it behind a proxy server. So no

Answer 1

You need to set desired capabilities or browser profile, like this:

profile = webdriver.FirefoxProfile()
profile.set_preference("network.proxy.type", 1)
profile.set_preference("network.proxy.http", "proxy.server.address")
profile.set_preference("network.proxy.http_port", "port_number")
profile.update_preferences()
driver = webdriver.Firefox(firefox_profile=profile)

Also see related threads:

• how do i set proxy for chrome in python webdriver
• Selenium using Python: enter/provide http proxy password for firefox
• Running Selenium Webdriver with a proxy in Python
• http://krosinski.blogspot.ru/2012/11/selenium-firefox-webdriver-and-proxies.html