My python script has the headless chrome in selenium up and functional but how, if possible, can I use a proxy as well? How can I pass the proxy host port to my headless chrome browser?
options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
options.add_argument('headless')
browser = webdriver.Chrome(chrome_options=options)
How do I use the proxy host port with selenium and mainly headless chrome? Thanks!
The simplest way to do is something like below. Put any ip address in the proxy variable to find out how it works. ip and port are separated by :.
from selenium import webdriver
proxy = "94.122.251.105:3128" #test with any ip address which supports `http` as well because the link within the script are of `http`
chrome_options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
chrome_options.add_argument('--headless')
chrome_options.add_argument('--proxy-server={}'.format(proxy))
driver = webdriver.Chrome(chrome_options=chrome_options)
driver.get('http://www.lagado.com/proxy-test')
items = driver.find_element_by_css_selector(".main-panel p:nth-of-type(2)").text
print(items) #it should print out the ip address you are using in the `proxy` variable above
driver.quit()