Proxy: Selenium + Python, Firefox

16
votes

How can I redirect the traffic of Firefox launched by Selenium in Python to a proxy? I have used the solutions suggested on the web but they don't work!

I have tried: 

profile = webdriver.FirefoxProfile() 
profile.set_preference("network.proxy.type", 1)
profile.set_preference("network.proxy.http", "54.213.66.208")
profile.set_preference("network.proxy.http_port", 80)
profile.update_preferences() 
driver = webdriver.Firefox(profile)
3
pythonfirefoxseleniumproxy
There might be more than one solution on the web. What did you try? (In particular, did you try this?) - unutbu
I have tried with this one: profile = webdriver.FirefoxProfile() profile.set_preference("network.proxy.type", 1) profile.set_preference("network.proxy.http", "54.213.66.208") profile.set_preference("network.proxy.http_port", 80) profile.update_preferences() driver = webdriver.Firefox(profile) - Michele Spina
Is your URL using http: or https:? - unutbu
http. I lunch this command driver.get("whatismyipaddress.com") and the ip is not the ip of the proxy but by ip... - Michele Spina
did you find out how to make this work? I have the same issue and I am using Firefox46 - salvob

3 Answers

19
votes

You need to import the following:

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

Then setup the proxies:

myProxy = "xx.xx.xx.xx:xxxx"

proxy = Proxy({
    'proxyType': ProxyType.MANUAL,
    'httpProxy': myProxy,
    'ftpProxy': myProxy,
    'sslProxy': myProxy,
    'noProxy': '' # set this value as desired
    })

Then call the webdriver.Firefox() function as follows:

driver = webdriver.Firefox(proxy=proxy)
driver.get("http://www.google.com")

Don't remember where exactly I found this solution, but its out there somewhere. Will surely provide a link if I find it again. Just took this part out of my code.

13
votes

Try this for firefox/geckodriver:

proxy = "212.66.117.168:41258"

firefox_capabilities = webdriver.DesiredCapabilities.FIREFOX
firefox_capabilities['marionette'] = True

firefox_capabilities['proxy'] = {
    "proxyType": "MANUAL",
    "httpProxy": proxy,
    "ftpProxy": proxy,
    "sslProxy": proxy
}

driver = webdriver.Firefox(capabilities=firefox_capabilities)

And for Chrome you can use:

proxy = "212.66.117.168:41258"
prox = Proxy()
prox.proxy_type = ProxyType.MANUAL
prox.http_proxy = proxy
prox.socks_proxy = proxy
prox.ssl_proxy = proxy

capabilities = webdriver.DesiredCapabilities.CHROME
prox.add_to_capabilities(capabilities)
driver = webdriver.Chrome(desired_capabilities=capabilities)
6
votes

Your problem is on the driver init. Try webdriver = webdriver.Firefox(firefox_profile=profile) All the other code is OK and you can also remove profile.update_preferences() line.

I found YOUR solution with a 2 minute google search. How much time did you spend waiting for? :D

Your problem is that you maybe read code from other langs but Python. Replace this webdriver.Firefox(profile) with webdriver.Firefox(firefox_profile=profile).

Your code should be:

profile = webdriver.FirefoxProfile() 
profile.set_preference("network.proxy.type", 1)
profile.set_preference("network.proxy.http", "54.213.66.208")
profile.set_preference("network.proxy.http_port", 80)
profile.update_preferences() 
driver = webdriver.Firefox(firefox_profile=profile)