Puppeteer Proxy
How To Use A Proxy In Puppeteer – Zyte
Puppeteer is a high-level API for headless chrome. It’s one of the most popular tools to use for web automation or web scraping in In web scraping, many developers use it to handle javascript rendering and web data extraction. In this article, we are going to cover how to set up a proxy in Puppeteer and what your options are if you want to rotate proxies.
Puppeteer and proxies
In this section, we’re going to configure Puppeteer to use a proxy. For this, you will need a working proxy and a destination URL to send the request to.
‘use strict’;
const puppeteer = require(‘puppeteer’);
(async() => {
const browser = await ({
args: [ ‘–proxy-server=’]});
const page = await wPage();
await (”);
await ();})();
As simple as that. This code will ensure that every request goes through the defined proxy. One downside with Puppeteer is that you cannot define proxies for each request in a simple way. So, the specified proxy will be used for all the requests of the browser instance.
IP rotation with Puppeteer
When you scrape the web at scale, you need to rotate proxies to avoid bans. If you want to implement your own IP pool in Puppeteer you will realize that you can only set up proxies on browser-level (code above) and not per request. This is not ideal if you need to use different proxies for each request. See this Github issue for more information about this topic.
To rotate proxies in Puppeteer and to use a different IP address for each request you need a proxy server. To have a proxy server, you can implement your own or just use a backconnect proxy service for this. Be aware, implementing your own proxy server might put you into a rabbit hole where you will need to solve problems that are totally unrelated to web scraping and you can get distracted from what you really want to achieve (extract the data). So it’s not recommended. But if you decide to go this way, this is an example, created with proxy-chain:
const proxies = {
‘useragent1’: ‘user:pass@85. 237. 57. 198:44959,
‘useragent2’: ‘user:pass@116. 0. 2. 94:43379,
‘useragent3’: ‘user:pass@186. 86. 247. 169:39168, };
const server = new ({
port: 8000,
prepareRequestFunction: ({request}) => {
const userAgent = request. headers[‘user-agent’];
const proxy = proxies[userAgent];
return {
upstreamProxyUrl: proxy, };});});
(() => (‘Proxy server works! ));
Puppeteer with Zyte Smart Proxy Manager (formerly Crawlera)
If you don’t want to implement your own JS proxy server, you can use a rotating proxy service, like Zyte Smart Proxy Manager. This is the simplest way to use proxies with Puppeteer. If you don’t want to struggle with IP rotation and just want successful requests, this is how to use Puppeteer with Zyte Proxy Manager:
Note: It is recommended to use Puppeteer 1. 17 with Chromium 76. 3803. For newer versions of Puppeteer, the latest Chromium snapshot that can be used is r669921.
Set ignoreHTTPSErrors to true in methodSpecify Zyte Proxy Manager’s host and port in –proxy-server flagSend Zyte Proxy Manager credentials in the Proxy-Authorization header
Here’s an example:
(async () => {
ignoreHTTPSErrors: true,
args: [
”]});
await tExtraHTTPHeaders({
‘Proxy-Authorization’: ‘Basic ‘ + (‘:’). toString(‘base64’), });
(‘Opening page… ‘);
try {
await (”, {timeout: 180000});} catch(err) {
(err);}
(‘Taking a screenshot… ‘);
await reenshot({path: ”});
With Zyte Smart Proxy Manager, you don’t have to struggle with IPs and rotation. Zyte Proxy Manager will take care of making your requests successful. For more tips on how to use Zyte Smart Proxy Manager with Puppeteer see our support page. If you want to try it for FREE, go here!
How to use proxy in puppeteer and headless Chrome? – Stack …
It’s possible with puppeteer-page-proxy.
It supports setting a proxy for an entire page, or if you like, it can set a different proxy for each request. And yes, it works both in headless and headful Chrome.
First install it:
npm i puppeteer-page-proxy
Then require it:
const useProxy = require(‘puppeteer-page-proxy’);
Using it is easy;
Set proxy for an entire page:
await useProxy(page, ”);
If you want a different proxy for each request, then you can simply do this:
await tRequestInterception(true);
(‘request’, req => {
useProxy(req, ‘socks5127. 0. 1:9000’);});
Then if you want to be sure that your page’s IP has changed, you can look it up;
const data = await (page);
();
It supports,, socks4 and socks5 proxies, and it also supports authentication if that is needed:
const proxy = ‘login:pass@127. 1:8000’
Repository:
How to use proxy in puppeteer and headless Chrome? – Stack …
It’s possible with puppeteer-page-proxy.
It supports setting a proxy for an entire page, or if you like, it can set a different proxy for each request. And yes, it works both in headless and headful Chrome.
First install it:
npm i puppeteer-page-proxy
Then require it:
const useProxy = require(‘puppeteer-page-proxy’);
Using it is easy;
Set proxy for an entire page:
await useProxy(page, ”);
If you want a different proxy for each request, then you can simply do this:
await tRequestInterception(true);
(‘request’, req => {
useProxy(req, ‘socks5127. 0. 1:9000’);});
Then if you want to be sure that your page’s IP has changed, you can look it up;
const data = await (page);
();
It supports,, socks4 and socks5 proxies, and it also supports authentication if that is needed:
const proxy = ‘login:pass@127. 1:8000’
Repository:
Frequently Asked Questions about puppeteer proxy
Does puppeteer use proxy?
6 Answers. It’s possible with puppeteer-page-proxy. It supports setting a proxy for an entire page, or if you like, it can set a different proxy for each request. And yes, it works both in headless and headful Chrome.Oct 12, 2018
How do I run puppeteer with proxy?
For this, you will need a working proxy and a destination URL to send the request to.’use strict’;const puppeteer = require(‘puppeteer’);(async() => {const browser = await puppeteer. launch({args: [ ‘–proxy-server=http://10.10.10.10:8000’ ]});const page = await browser. newPage();await page.More items…•Jan 23, 2020
Who are the puppeteers proxies?
The Puppeteer has two proxies named Emra and Zachary. Every time The Puppeteer starts remembering his past life and who he once was, he goes into a state of confusion and anger.
