How do i use proxy with requests.session

July 6, 2023

Hi i am trying to do an action with a session like this:
with requests.Session() as ses:
s = ses.get(f"URL")

my proxy format is: http://username:password@url_of_proxyprovider:port

i tried using in this case: ses.proxies.update(proxy) but it didnt work.
also tried this, but didnt work: s.proxies = {'proxy'}
also tried adding proxy like this: s = ses.get(f"url", proxies=proxy)
its always done through my IP and not through the proxy.

>Solution :

Converting comment to answer.

The correct way to do it:

import requests

with requests.Session() as session
    session.proxies = {
        'http': 'http://username:password@url_of_proxyprovider:port',
        'https': 'http://username:password@url_of_proxyprovider:port'
    }

    url = 'http://mywebsite.com/example'
    response = session.get(url)

If you want to proxy FTP also, you can add it to the proxies dictionary:

    session.proxies = {
        'http': 'http://username:password@url_of_proxyprovider:port',
        'https': 'http://username:password@url_of_proxyprovider:port',
        'ftp': 'http://username:password@url_of_proxyprovider:port'
    }