grey_harvest 0.1.3

Generate lists of free, reliable http(s) proxies.

grey_harvest
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Scrapes the web for reliable http/https proxies and tests them for
speed and reliability. Can be used as both a python module and a
command line utility. When run as a command line utility, proxies
are sent to stdout. When run as a module, it returns a generator.

Key Features
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- Quickly and easily generate a list of reliable http/https proxies
- Usable as a comamnd line utility or a python module
- Can filter for proxies that support SSL
- Can filter for proxies locationed within specific countries
- Can exclude proxies located within specific countries

Installation
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First, install the following dependencies:

# On Centos/RHEL/Fedora:
sudo yum install python-devel libxlt-devel libxml-devel

# On Debian/Ubuntu:
sudo apt-get install python-dev libxml2-dev libxslt1-dev

Then install grey_harvest using pip as follows:

pip install grey_harvest

Usage
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We can generate a list of 10 viable proxies with the following command:

# use the -n flag to specify number of proxies to generate
grey_harvest -n 10

To select only proxies with SSL enabled, we do this:

# use the -H flag to select only https proxies
grey_harvest -n 10 -H

We can use the -a flag to filter for proxies located within a
list of specific countries. For example, to choose proxies located
within Ukraine, Hong Kong, and the United States, we'd use this:

# use the -a flag to filter by country
grey_harvest -a "United States" "Hong Kong" Ukraine -n 10

We can deny proxies located within specific countries by using
the -d flag. Proxies located within China are blocked by default
as they are often located behind the Great Firewall, and as such
tend to be unreliable. This can be changed within grey_harvest.py's
internal configs.

# use the -d flag to deny proxies located within France and
# Germany
grey_harvest -d France Germany -n 10 -H

grey_harvest library - basic example
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Before diving into the documentation for the grey_harvest library,
check out how easily we can generate a list of 20 proxies:

import gray_harvest

''' spawn a harvester '''
harvester = grey_harvest.GreyHarvester()

''' harvest some proxies from teh interwebz '''
count = 0
for proxy in harvester.run():
print proxy
count += 1
if count >= 20:
break

That's it. We now have 20 http/https proxies ready to go.


The grey_harvest library provides two classes - Proxy
and GreyHarvester:

# todo





.. :changelog:

History
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0.1.2 (2015-05-26)
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- Corrected some build issues

0.1.0 (2015-05-26)
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- Initial release


Credits
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"grey_harvest" is written and maintained by John 's0lst1c3' Ryan.

Contributors
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Please add yourself here alphabetically when you submit your first pull request.