Selenium Python can't connect to website with proxy

Question

I'm trying to use Selenium with chrome driver and connect to websites using proxy, but for some odd reason chrome gives back an error, that either connection was reset or connection timed out or this site cant be reached and so on.. used many proxies, so I doubt that the proxy server is at fault.

Here's my code:

from selenium import webdriver

chromedriver = r'C:/Users\seife\Documents\chromedriver\chromedriver.exe'
PROXY = "177.202.59.58:8080"
chrome_options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
chrome_options.add_argument('--proxy-server=%s' % PROXY)
chrome = webdriver.Chrome(chromedriver, options=chrome_options)
chrome.get("http://whatismyipaddress.com")

Here's how the page looks:

Sajid · Accepted Answer · 2020-06-05 05:09:05Z

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#you need to import Options 
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options
from selenium import webdriver

chromedriver = r'C:/Users\seife\Documents\chromedriver\chromedriver.exe'
PROXY = "177.202.59.58:8080"  #free proxies sometimes don't work, I tried with netherland's proxy, and it worked
chrome_options = Options()   #here is the change
chrome_options.add_argument('--proxy-server=%s' % PROXY)
chrome = webdriver.Chrome(chromedriver, options=chrome_options)
chrome.get("https://whatismyipaddress.com")   #and here is the change, just https

edited Jun 5, 2020 at 5:09

answered Jun 5, 2020 at 4:10

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5 Comments

Seif Fahmy Over a year ago

I put the changes, used many proxies including yours and it still won't connect ;/ , whats your chrome version??, anyways thanks for your help, I appreciate it!.

Sajid Over a year ago

Try using different proxies from here sslproxies.org . My chrome version is 83. Did you even tried changing headers?

Sajid Over a year ago

Try changing user agent as well. You can get free user agents from user-agents.net or you can use fake_headers module. "chrome_options.add_argument(f'user-agent={user-agent}')"something like this

Seif Fahmy Over a year ago

I had v.81 chromedriver, maybe I was outdated idk. it worked but its super slow?, probably because of a free proxy.

Sajid Over a year ago

Yeah,free proxies are mostly slow, you can use VPN as well

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