Requests Proxy not Working

Question

I am currently writing a scraper for testing want to access the site with a different IP, I have found a lot of information about using a proxy and tried this several times, however when I access a site that shows the IP used in the request, it shows the IP of my computer.

I am using a free Proxy I found online.

Here is my code:

import requests
proxy = {'SOCKS5': '24.145.195.60:27595'}
response = requests.get('http://www.whatsmyip.de/', proxies=proxy)
print response

Any help is greatly appreciated!

Answer 1

You need to define a proxy for the HTTP and or a HTTPS protocol. I'm not sure if requests works with SOCKS protocol yet

This works for me.

import requests
import bs4

proxy = {"http": "115.227.195.213"}
response = requests.get('http://www.whatsmyip.de/', proxies=proxy)
soup = bs4.BeautifulSoup(response.text)

print soup.h3.text

Note: It uses the bs4 module to print the ip and I used a proxy server that is HTTP compatible