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[HELP][Python] How to use Selenium correctly
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You can do it with plain selenium all you need to set the proxy in the browser options.
from selenium import webdriver
PROXY_WITH_PORT= "111.222.333.443:8080" chrome_options = webdriver.ChromeOptions() chrome_options.add_argument(f'--proxy-server={PROXY_WITH_PORT}')
chrome = webdriver.Chrome(chrome_options=chrome_options) chrome.get("http://google.com")
In general you can pass any command like argument to the browser using options. For chrome you can find all the proxy related options here: https://www.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/network-settings/
Also if you are using the latest selenium (4.10 I think) you don’t need to point to the chromedriver executable, selenium will automatically download it if it can’t find the driver
Edit: more information about chrome arguments Edit: info about driver download
Thank you. The problem with this is that it does not support authorized proxies though. You cannot pass user:pass through it. My janky solution was to uae something like pproxy to relay the connection through my own peoxy server without user:pass. Has not been fully effective though.
I will look into doing this and using IP authorization instead of user:pass. Thank you for the help.
How is vanilla selenium with WebRTC or DNS leaks?
You might need to install your own proxy on the selenium PC and then chain that proxy to the authenticated one. Then configure the driver to use the local unauthenticated proxy
Also since Selenium just drives an actual browser the WebRTC and DNS leaks will be the browser’s responsibility not selenium. As long as you can locate elements on a page your will be ok