How to force all calls to pythons requests.get to use proxy by default?

Question

I am using a third party library in my code to get access token (ADAL). This library has a lot of calls to requests.get and requests.post. How can I force all the calls to use user provided proxies without having to modify each call to requests.get('http://example.com', proxies=proxies).

I cannot do export HTTP_PROXY. I have to do it from within my script.

Answer 1

You could monkey patch requests.

At the very start of your script:

import requests
import functools

orig_get = requests.get

proxies = { 
  'http': 'http://10.10.1.10:3128',
  'https': 'http://10.10.1.10:1080',
}
requests.get = functools.partial(orig_get, proxies=proxies)