free-proxy 1.0.5

Proxy scraper for further use

Free-proxy

Get free working proxy from https://www.sslproxies.org/ and use it in your script

FreeProxy class scrapes proxies from https://www.sslproxies.org/ and checks if proxy is working. There is possibility to filter proxies by country and acceptable timeout. You can also randomize list of proxies from where script would get first working proxy.

You can use it in sending request through custom proxy, with selenium or wherever you want.

Returns proxy as string:

'http://113.160.218.14:8888'

Requirements

• Python3
• Request library
• Lxml library

Installation

pip install free-proxy

Usage with examples

First import Free Proxy that way:

from fp.fp import FreeProxy

Options

Parameter	Type	Example	Default value
country_id	list	['US', 'BR']	None
timeout	float > 0	0.1	0.5
rand	bool	True	False
anonym	bool	True	False
elite	bool	True	False

• No parameters Get first working proxy from https://www.sslproxies.org/

proxy = FreeProxy().get()

• country_id parameter Get first working proxy from specified list of countries. If there is no valid proxy from specified list check all countries

proxy = FreeProxy(country_id=['US', 'BR']).get()

• timeout parameter Timeout is parameter for checking if proxy is valid. If test site doesn't respond in specified time script marks this proxy as invalid. Default timeout=0.5. You can change it by defining specified timeout eg. timeout=1.

proxy = FreeProxy(timeout=1).get()

• rand parameter Shuffles proxy list from https://www.sslproxies.org/. Default rand=False and searches for working proxy from newest to oldest (as they are listed in https://www.sslproxies.org/).

proxy = FreeProxy(rand=True).get()

• anonym parameter Return only those proxies that are marked as anonymous. Defaults to anonym=False

proxy = FreeProxy(anonym=True).get()

• elite parameter Return only those proxies that are marked as 'elite proxy'. Defaults to elite=False.

proxy = FreeProxy(elite=True).get()

Note that elite proxies is anonymous at the same time, thus anonym=True automatically when elite=True.

You can combine parameters:

proxy = FreeProxy(country_id=['US', 'BR'], timeout=0.3, rand=True).get()

If there is no working proxy script returns There are no working proxies at this time. message.

CHANGELOG

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[1.0.5] - 2022-01-07

• Added elite parameter
• Add exception class and raise exception instead of system exit
• Change lxml version to 4.6.5

[1.0.4] - 2021-11-13

• Fix proxy list default length

[1.0.3] - 2021-08-18

• Change XPatch due to SSL proxies page update
• Change lxml version

[1.0.2] - 2020-09-03

• Added anonym parameter

[1.0.1] - 2020-03-19

• Fix typos in readme
• Fix urrlib3 exception urllib3.exceptions.ProxySchemeUnknown: Not supported proxy scheme None,
• Fix imports

[1.0.0] - 2019-02-04

• Initial release

License

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MIT

Free Software!