Unable to use proxies in Scrapy project

Question

I have been trying to crawl a website that has seemingly identified and blocked my IP and is throwing a 429 Too many requests response.

I installed scrapy-proxies from this link: https://github.com/aivarsk/scrapy-proxies and followed the given instructions. I got a list of proxies from here: http://www.gatherproxy.com/ and now here is how my settings.py and proxylist.txt look like:

Settings.py

BOT_NAME = 'project'
SPIDER_MODULES = ['project.spiders']
NEWSPIDER_MODULE = 'project.spiders'
# Retry many times since proxies often fail
RETRY_TIMES = 10
# Retry on most error codes since proxies fail for different reasons
RETRY_HTTP_CODES = [429, 500, 503, 504, 400, 403, 404, 408]

DOWNLOADER_MIDDLEWARES = {
    'scrapy.downloadermiddlewares.retry.RetryMiddleware': 90,
    'scrapy_proxies.RandomProxy': 100,
    'scrapy.downloadermiddlewares.httpproxy.HttpProxyMiddleware': 110,
}

PROXY_LIST = "filepath\proxylist.txt"
USER_AGENT = 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_10_5) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/55.0.2883.95 Safari/537.36'
CONCURRENT_REQUESTS = 1
DOWNLOAD_DELAY = 2

PROXY_MODE = 0
DOWNLOAD_HANDLERS = {'s3': None}

EXTENSIONS = {
   'scrapy.telnet.TelnetConsole': None
}

proxylist.txt

http://195.208.172.20:8080
http://154.119.56.179:9999
http://124.12.50.43:8088
http://61.7.168.232:52136
http://122.193.188.236:8118

Yet when I run my crawler, I get the following error:

[scrapy.proxies] DEBUG: Proxy user pass not found

I tried to search for the specific error on google but could not find any solutions.

Help will be highly appreciated. Thanks a lot in advance.

Answer 1

I suggest you to create your own middleware to specify the IP:PORT like this and place this proxies.py middleware file inside your project's middleware folder:

class ProxiesMiddleware(object):
    def __init__(self, settings):
        pass

    @classmethod
    def from_crawler(cls, crawler):
        return cls(crawler.settings)

    def process_request(self, request, spider):
        request.meta['proxy'] = "http://IP:PORT"

Add ProxiesMiddleware middleware line to your settings.py

DOWNLOADER_MIDDLEWARES = {
   'yourproject.middleware.proxies.ProxiesMiddleware':400,
}