Selenium

What is Selenium?

Selenium is an umbrella project for a series of tools and libraries that enable and support the automation of web browsers.

Selenium has many features, but at its core it is a toolset for web browser automation, which uses the best technologies available to remotely control browser instances and simulate user interactions with the browser.

Here's how to integrate Socks5 with Selenium.

1

Install Selenium

Install Selenium Wire to extend Selenium's Python bindings, as using the default Selenium modules to implement proxies that require authentication complicates the process. You can do this using pip command: pip install selenium-wire

Another recommended package for this integration is webdriver-manager. It is a suite that simplifies the management of binary drivers for different browsers. In this case, there is no need to manually download a new version of the web driver after each update.

2

Specify your user credentials for the agent to function properly

USERNAME = "socks5-customer-USERNAME"

PASSWORD = "PASSWORD"

ENDPOINT = "proxy-as.socks5.io:3000"

3

Check proxy status

Check whether the agent is functioning properly by visiting https://ip234.in/ip.json. If everything is fine - it will return the IP address of the agent you are using.

try:
    driver.get("https://ip234.in/ip.json/")
    return f'\nYour IP is: {driver.find_element(By.CSS_SELECTOR, "pre").text}'
finally:
    driver.quit()

Full code example:

from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from seleniumwire import webdriver
# A package to have a chromedriver always up-to-date.
from webdriver_manager.chrome import ChromeDriverManager

USERNAME = "socks5-customer-USERNAME"
PASSWORD = "PASSWORD"
ENDPOINT = "proxy-as.socks5.io:3000"

def chrome_proxy(user: str, password: str, endpoint: str) -> dict:
    wire_options = {
        "proxy": {
            "http": f"http://{user}:{password}@{endpoint}",
            "https": f"https://{user}:{password}@{endpoint}",
        }
    }

    return wire_options

def execute_driver():
    options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
    options.add_argument('--headless')
    proxies = chrome_proxy(USERNAME, PASSWORD, ENDPOINT)
    driver = webdriver.Chrome(
    ChromeDriverManager(driver_version='<VERSION>').install(), options=options, seleniumwire_options=proxies
    )
    try:
        driver.get("https://ip234.in/ip.json/")
        return f'\nYour IP is: {driver.find_element(By.CSS_SELECTOR, "pre").text}'
    finally:
        driver.quit()


if __name__ == '__main__':
    print(execute_driver())