python - 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 now selenium open up the window but could not open the requested page because of proxy settings not set on the opened browser. Current code is as follows (sample):

from selenium import webdriver

sel = webdriver.Firefox()
sel.get('http://www.google.com')
sel.title
sel.quit()

How do I change the above code to work with proxy server now as well?

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