Python3 - Requests with Sock5 proxy

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Bob Ebert picture Bob Ebert · Aug 3, 2015 · Viewed 14.4k times · Source

Is there a way to use sock5 proxy to use TOR with requests? I know that requests only use http proxy...

import requests
r = requests.get('http://www.google.com',proxies= my_proxy)

Answer

Eugene Alkhouski picture Eugene Alkhouski · Aug 3, 2015

You can use socks, socket modules

import socks
import socket
from urllib import request

socks.set_default_proxy(socks.SOCKS5, "localhost", 9050)
socket.socket = socks.socksocket
r = request.urlopen('http://icanhazip.com')
print(r.read()) # check ips

The socks package can be installed from multiple packages which are forks of socksipy. One particular one that also works on Python3 is PySocks. You can install it, for example, with pip:

pip3 install PySocks

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