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

This will do the job:

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

proxyHost = "my.proxy.host or IP"
proxyPort = "55555"

fp = webdriver.FirefoxProfile()
fp.set_preference("network.proxy.type", 1)
#fp.set_preference("network.proxy.http", proxyHost) #HTTP PROXY
#fp.set_preference("network.proxy.http_port", int(proxyPort))
#fp.set_preference("network.proxy.ssl", proxyHost) #SSL  PROXY
#fp.set_preference("network.proxy.ssl_port", int(proxyPort))
fp.set_preference('network.proxy.socks', proxyHost) #SOCKS PROXY
fp.set_preference('network.proxy.socks_port', int(proxyPort))
fp.update_preferences()

driver = webdriver.Firefox(firefox_profile=fp)

driver.get("http://www.whatismyip.com/")