Proxies with Python 'Requests' module

Question

Just a short, simple one about the excellent Requests module for Python.

I can\'t seem to find in the documentation what the variable \'proxies\' should contain. Whe

Answer 1

You can refer to the proxy documentation here.

If you need to use a proxy, you can configure individual requests with the proxies argument to any request method:

import requests

proxies = {
  "http": "http://10.10.1.10:3128",
  "https": "https://10.10.1.10:1080",
}

requests.get("http://example.org", proxies=proxies)

To use HTTP Basic Auth with your proxy, use the http://user:password@host.com/ syntax:

proxies = {
    "http": "http://user:pass@10.10.1.10:3128/"
}

Answer 2

The proxies' dict syntax is {"protocol":"ip:port", ...}. With it you can specify different (or the same) proxie(s) for requests using http, https, and ftp protocols:

http_proxy  = "http://10.10.1.10:3128"
https_proxy = "https://10.10.1.11:1080"
ftp_proxy   = "ftp://10.10.1.10:3128"

proxyDict = { 
              "http"  : http_proxy, 
              "https" : https_proxy, 
              "ftp"   : ftp_proxy
            }

r = requests.get(url, headers=headers, proxies=proxyDict)

Deduced from the requests documentation:

Parameters:
method – method for the new Request object.
url – URL for the new Request object.
...
proxies – (optional) Dictionary mapping protocol to the URL of the proxy.
...

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On linux you can also do this via the HTTP_PROXY, HTTPS_PROXY, and FTP_PROXY environment variables:

export HTTP_PROXY=10.10.1.10:3128
export HTTPS_PROXY=10.10.1.11:1080
export FTP_PROXY=10.10.1.10:3128

On Windows:

set http_proxy=10.10.1.10:3128
set https_proxy=10.10.1.11:1080
set ftp_proxy=10.10.1.10:3128

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Thanks, Jay for pointing this out:
The syntax changed with requests 2.0.0.
You'll need to add a schema to the url: https://2.python-requests.org/en/latest/user/advanced/#proxies

Answer 3

8 years late. But I like:

import os
import requests

os.environ['HTTP_PROXY'] = os.environ['http_proxy'] = 'http://http-connect-proxy:3128/'
os.environ['HTTPS_PROXY'] = os.environ['https_proxy'] = 'http://http-connect-proxy:3128/'
os.environ['NO_PROXY'] = os.environ['no_proxy'] = '127.0.0.1,localhost,.local'

r = requests.get('https://example.com')  # , verify=False

Answer 4

here is my basic class in python for the requests module with some proxy configs and stopwatch !

import requests
import time
class BaseCheck():
    def __init__(self, url):
        self.http_proxy  = "http://user:pw@proxy:8080"
        self.https_proxy = "http://user:pw@proxy:8080"
        self.ftp_proxy   = "http://user:pw@proxy:8080"
        self.proxyDict = {
                      "http"  : self.http_proxy,
                      "https" : self.https_proxy,
                      "ftp"   : self.ftp_proxy
                    }
        self.url = url
        def makearr(tsteps):
            global stemps
            global steps
            stemps = {}
            for step in tsteps:
                stemps[step] = { 'start': 0, 'end': 0 }
            steps = tsteps
        makearr(['init','check'])
        def starttime(typ = ""):
            for stemp in stemps:
                if typ == "":
                    stemps[stemp]['start'] = time.time()
                else:
                    stemps[stemp][typ] = time.time()
        starttime()
    def __str__(self):
        return str(self.url)
    def getrequests(self):
        g=requests.get(self.url,proxies=self.proxyDict)
        print g.status_code
        print g.content
        print self.url
        stemps['init']['end'] = time.time()
        #print stemps['init']['end'] - stemps['init']['start']
        x= stemps['init']['end'] - stemps['init']['start']
        print x


test=BaseCheck(url='http://google.com')
test.getrequests()