Setting proxy to urllib.request (Python3)

Question

How can I set proxy for the last urllib in Python 3. I am doing the next

from urllib import request as urlrequest
ask = urlrequest.Request(url)          


        

Answer 1

You should be calling set_proxy() on an instance of class Request, not on the class itself:

from urllib import request as urlrequest

proxy_host = 'localhost:1234'    # host and port of your proxy
url = 'http://www.httpbin.org/ip'

req = urlrequest.Request(url)
req.set_proxy(proxy_host, 'http')

response = urlrequest.urlopen(req)
print(response.read().decode('utf8'))