How do you utilize proxy support with the python web-scraping framework Scrapy?
Answer
From the Scrapy FAQ,
Does Scrapy work with HTTP proxies?
Yes. Support for HTTP proxies is provided (since Scrapy 0.8) through the HTTP Proxy downloader middleware. See
HttpProxyMiddleware.
The easiest way to use a proxy is to set the environment variable http_proxy. How this is done depends on your shell.
C:\>set http_proxy=http://proxy:port csh% setenv http_proxy http://proxy:port sh$ export http_proxy=http://proxy:port
if you want to use https proxy and visited https web,to set the environment variable http_proxy you should follow below,
C:\>set https_proxy=https://proxy:port csh% setenv https_proxy https://proxy:port sh$ export https_proxy=https://proxy:port