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

The official Selenium documentation (http://docs.seleniumhq.org/docs/04_webdriver_advanced.jsp#using-a-proxy) provides clear and helpful guidelines about using a proxy. For Firefox (which is the browser of choice in your sample code) you should do the following:

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

myProxy = "host:8080"

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

driver = webdriver.Firefox(proxy=proxy)