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

Answer 2

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/")

Answer 3

def install_proxy(PROXY_HOST,PROXY_PORT):
    fp = webdriver.FirefoxProfile()
    print PROXY_PORT
    print PROXY_HOST
    fp.set_preference("network.proxy.type", 1)
    fp.set_preference("network.proxy.http",PROXY_HOST)
    fp.set_preference("network.proxy.http_port",int(PROXY_PORT))
    fp.set_preference("network.proxy.https",PROXY_HOST)
    fp.set_preference("network.proxy.https_port",int(PROXY_PORT))
    fp.set_preference("network.proxy.ssl",PROXY_HOST)
    fp.set_preference("network.proxy.ssl_port",int(PROXY_PORT))  
    fp.set_preference("network.proxy.ftp",PROXY_HOST)
    fp.set_preference("network.proxy.ftp_port",int(PROXY_PORT))   
    fp.set_preference("network.proxy.socks",PROXY_HOST)
    fp.set_preference("network.proxy.socks_port",int(PROXY_PORT))   
    fp.set_preference("general.useragent.override","Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_9_3) AppleWebKit/537.75.14 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/7.0.3 Safari/7046A194A")
    fp.update_preferences()
    return webdriver.Firefox(firefox_profile=fp)

Answer 4

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)