FreeProxyScraper 0.1.1

A plugin driven package that scrapes sites for free proxies

FreeProxyScraper

This is a plugin driven web scraper meant to retrieve and test free proxies for use. Note that this package may be unstable and should not be used in a production environment.

Installation

Run the following to install:

pip install FreeProxyScraper

Usage

import FreeProxyScraper

pq = FreeProxyScraper.ProxyQuery()

for proxy in pq.find_proxies(limit=20):
    print(proxy)

List of sites implemented for scraping:

• https://www.sslproxies.org/
• http://free-proxy.cz/en/
• https://spys.one/en/
• https://hidemy.name/en/proxy-list/
• https://geonode.com/free-proxy-list

FAQ

• Why implement so many websites for scraping?

Websites are always changing, or going down, or banning ip's very quickly. In order to make sure this package stays reliable it is essential that it implements many websites

Development

to install FreeProxyScraper, along with the tools you need to develop, run the following in the directory containing this repo:

pip install -e .[dev]

If you'd like to contribute to development, right now the most needed thing is writing more plugins. In order to help, you need basic knowledge of BeautifulSoup4 and a little of patience with websites purposely making it hard for you to scrape information. Check out src/plugins/examplePlugin.py to see an example layout of a plugin file.