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How can I use a SOCKS 4/5 proxy with urllib2?

How can I use a SOCKS 4/5 proxy with urllib2 to download a web page?

Solution

  • You can use SocksiPy module. Simply copy the file "socks.py" to your Python's lib/site-packages directory, and you're ready to go.

    You must use socks before urllib2. (Try it pip install PySocks )

    For example:

    import socks
import socket
socks.setdefaultproxy(socks.PROXY_TYPE_SOCKS5, "127.0.0.1", 8080)
socket.socket = socks.socksocket
import urllib2
print urllib2.urlopen('http://www.google.com').read()

    You can also try pycurl lib and tsocks, for more detail, click on here.