How to scrape https website with proxies

Hi all,

My last post about scraping with proxies is quite old and I decided to write a newer version of it. In particular, today I will emphasize how to scrape https website with proxies.

There are also good news about requests library. Requests has not been supporting socks proxies for quite a long time, but in 2016 there was a new release of it. So now requests fully supports both http and socks proxies.

So let's get started. Below I will show you 4 different examples of how to scrape a single https page. First, we will scrape it with requests using socks and http proxies. Second, we will do the same using urllib3 library.

Web scraping using socks/http proxies

While extracting data from websites most probably you will notice some kind of access limiting for a single IP address. In that case it is good to use proxies. In my scraping projects I've been using both http and socks proxies.