Running Selenium Webdriver with a proxy in Python

Question

I am trying to run a Selenium Webdriver script in Python to do some basic tasks. I can get the robot to function perfectly when running it through the Selenium IDE inteface (ie: when simply getting the GUI to repeat my actions). However when I export the code as a Python script and try to execute it from the command line, the Firefox browser will open but cannot ever access the starting URL (an error is returned to command line and the program stops). This is happening me regardless of what website etc I am trying to access.

I have included a very basic code here for demonstration purposes. I don't think that I have included the proxy section of the code correctly as the error being returned seems to be generated by the proxy.

Any help would be hugely appreciated.

The below code is simply meant to open www.google.ie and search for the word "selenium". For me it opens a blank firefox browser and stops.

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import Select
from selenium.common.exceptions import NoSuchElementException
import unittest, time, re
from selenium.webdriver.common.proxy import *

class Testrobot2(unittest.TestCase):
    def setUp(self):

        myProxy = "http://149.215.113.110:70"

        proxy = Proxy({
        'proxyType': ProxyType.MANUAL,
        'httpProxy': myProxy,
        'ftpProxy': myProxy,
        'sslProxy': myProxy,
        'noProxy':''})

        self.driver = webdriver.Firefox(proxy=proxy)
        self.driver.implicitly_wait(30)
        self.base_url = "https://www.google.ie/"
        self.verificationErrors = []
        self.accept_next_alert = True

    def test_robot2(self):
        driver = self.driver
        driver.get(self.base_url + "/#gs_rn=17&gs_ri=psy-ab&suggest=p&cp=6&gs_id=ix&xhr=t&q=selenium&es_nrs=true&pf=p&output=search&sclient=psy-ab&oq=seleni&gs_l=&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_qf.&bvm=bv.47883778,d.ZGU&fp=7c0d9024de9ac6ab&biw=592&bih=665")
        driver.find_element_by_id("gbqfq").clear()
        driver.find_element_by_id("gbqfq").send_keys("selenium")

    def is_element_present(self, how, what):
        try: self.driver.find_element(by=how, value=what)
        except NoSuchElementException, e: return False
        return True

    def is_alert_present(self):
        try: self.driver.switch_to_alert()
        except NoAlertPresentException, e: return False
        return True

    def close_alert_and_get_its_text(self):
        try:
            alert = self.driver.switch_to_alert()
            alert_text = alert.text
            if self.accept_next_alert:
                alert.accept()
            else:
                alert.dismiss()
            return alert_text
        finally: self.accept_next_alert = True

    def tearDown(self):
        self.driver.quit()
        self.assertEqual([], self.verificationErrors)

if __name__ == "__main__":
    unittest.main()

Answer 1

How about something like this

PROXY = "149.215.113.110:70"

webdriver.DesiredCapabilities.FIREFOX['proxy'] = {
    "httpProxy":PROXY,
    "ftpProxy":PROXY,
    "sslProxy":PROXY,
    "noProxy":None,
    "proxyType":"MANUAL",
    "class":"org.openqa.selenium.Proxy",
    "autodetect":False
}

# you have to use remote, otherwise you'll have to code it yourself in python to 
driver = webdriver.Remote("http://localhost:4444/wd/hub", webdriver.DesiredCapabilities.FIREFOX)

You can read more about it here.

Answer 2

Works for me this way (similar to @Amey and @user4642224 code, but shorter a bit):

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.proxy import Proxy, ProxyType

prox = Proxy()
prox.proxy_type = ProxyType.MANUAL
prox.http_proxy = "ip_addr:port"
prox.socks_proxy = "ip_addr:port"
prox.ssl_proxy = "ip_addr:port"

capabilities = webdriver.DesiredCapabilities.CHROME
prox.add_to_capabilities(capabilities)

driver = webdriver.Chrome(desired_capabilities=capabilities)

Answer 3

My solution:

def my_proxy(PROXY_HOST,PROXY_PORT):
        fp = webdriver.FirefoxProfile()
        # Direct = 0, Manual = 1, PAC = 2, AUTODETECT = 4, SYSTEM = 5
        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("general.useragent.override","whater_useragent")
        fp.update_preferences()
        return webdriver.Firefox(firefox_profile=fp)

Then call in your code:

my_proxy(PROXY_HOST,PROXY_PORT)

I had issues with this code because I was passing a string as a port #:

 PROXY_PORT="31280"

This is important:

int("31280")

You must pass an integer instead of a string or your firefox profile will not be set to a properly port and connection through proxy will not work.

Answer 4

If anyone is looking for a solution here's how :

from selenium import webdriver
PROXY = "YOUR_PROXY_ADDRESS_HERE"
webdriver.DesiredCapabilities.FIREFOX['proxy']={
    "httpProxy":PROXY,
    "ftpProxy":PROXY,
    "sslProxy":PROXY,
    "noProxy":None,
    "proxyType":"MANUAL",
    "autodetect":False
}
driver = webdriver.Firefox()
driver.get('http://www.whatsmyip.org/')

Answer 5

Try setting up sock5 proxy too. I was facing the same problem and it is solved by using the socks proxy

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)

Then call install_proxy ( ip , port ) from your program.

Answer 6

Try by Setting up FirefoxProfile

from selenium import webdriver
import time


"Define Both ProxyHost and ProxyPort as String"
ProxyHost = "54.84.95.51" 
ProxyPort = "8083"



def ChangeProxy(ProxyHost ,ProxyPort):
    "Define Firefox Profile with you ProxyHost and ProxyPort"
    profile = webdriver.FirefoxProfile()
    profile.set_preference("network.proxy.type", 1)
    profile.set_preference("network.proxy.http", ProxyHost )
    profile.set_preference("network.proxy.http_port", int(ProxyPort))
    profile.update_preferences()
    return webdriver.Firefox(firefox_profile=profile)


def FixProxy():
    ""Reset Firefox Profile""
    profile = webdriver.FirefoxProfile()
    profile.set_preference("network.proxy.type", 0)
    return webdriver.Firefox(firefox_profile=profile)


driver = ChangeProxy(ProxyHost ,ProxyPort)
driver.get("http://whatismyipaddress.com")

time.sleep(5)

driver = FixProxy()
driver.get("http://whatismyipaddress.com")

This program tested on both Windows 8 and Mac OSX. If you are using Mac OSX and if you don't have selenium updated then you may face selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException. If so, then try again after upgrading your selenium

pip install -U selenium

Answer 7

Proxy with verification. This is a whole new python script in reference from a Mykhail Martsyniuk sample script.

# Load webdriver
from selenium import webdriver

# Load proxy option
from selenium.webdriver.common.proxy import Proxy, ProxyType

# Configure Proxy Option
prox = Proxy()
prox.proxy_type = ProxyType.MANUAL

# Proxy IP & Port
prox.http_proxy = “0.0.0.0:00000”
prox.socks_proxy = “0.0.0.0:00000”
prox.ssl_proxy = “0.0.0.0:00000”

# Configure capabilities 
capabilities = webdriver.DesiredCapabilities.CHROME
prox.add_to_capabilities(capabilities)

# Configure ChromeOptions
driver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path='/usr/local/share chromedriver',desired_capabilities=capabilities)

# Verify proxy ip
driver.get("http://www.whatsmyip.org/")

Answer 8

The result stated above may be correct, but isn't working with the latest webdriver. Here is my solution for the above question. Simple and sweet

        http_proxy  = "ip_addr:port"
        https_proxy = "ip_addr:port"

        webdriver.DesiredCapabilities.FIREFOX['proxy']={
            "httpProxy":http_proxy,
            "sslProxy":https_proxy,
            "proxyType":"MANUAL"
        }

        driver = webdriver.Firefox()

OR

    http_proxy  = "http://ip:port"
    https_proxy = "https://ip:port"

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

    driver = webdriver.Firefox(proxy=proxyDict)

Answer 9

try running tor service, add the following function to your code.

def connect_tor(port):

socks.set_default_proxy(socks.PROXY_TYPE_SOCKS5, '127.0.0.1', port, True)
socket.socket = socks.socksocket

def main():

connect_tor()
driver = webdriver.Firefox()

Answer 10

As stated by @Dugini, some config entries have been removed. Maximal:

webdriver.DesiredCapabilities.FIREFOX['proxy'] = {
    "httpProxy":PROXY,
    "ftpProxy":PROXY,
    "sslProxy":PROXY,
    "noProxy":[],
    "proxyType":"MANUAL"
 }