I have a list of free https proxies, taken from sslproxies. I am writing a script in Python where I want to switch IP addresses regularly between interactions with websites. I was testing how this works with Selenium Wire and noticed upon testing that my IP address does not actually change after applying a proxy. There are no errors. Below the script I use:

from seleniumwire import webdriver

PROXY = # this is taken from the free proxies, syntax is "http://IP:port"

seleniumwire_options = {
    'proxy': {
        'http': PROXY,
        'https': PROXY,
    },
}

driver = webdriver.Chrome(seleniumwire_options = seleniumwire_options)

driver.get("/")

Unfortunately, the above code simply shows my own IP address when I go to the test website whatismyipaddress. Does anyone know how I can 'enable' the proxy? I have also tried doing it by declaring driver.proxy = {'http': PROXY, 'https': PROXY,}.

I have a list of free https proxies, taken from sslproxies.. I am writing a script in Python where I want to switch IP addresses regularly between interactions with websites. I was testing how this works with Selenium Wire and noticed upon testing that my IP address does not actually change after applying a proxy. There are no errors. Below the script I use:

from seleniumwire import webdriver

PROXY = # this is taken from the free proxies, syntax is "http://IP:port"

seleniumwire_options = {
    'proxy': {
        'http': PROXY,
        'https': PROXY,
    },
}

driver = webdriver.Chrome(seleniumwire_options = seleniumwire_options)

driver.get("http://whatismyipaddress/")

Unfortunately, the above code simply shows my own IP address when I go to the test website whatismyipaddress. Does anyone know how I can 'enable' the proxy? I have also tried doing it by declaring driver.proxy = {'http': PROXY, 'https': PROXY,}.

• python
• selenium-webdriver
• web-scraping
• proxy
• seleniumwire

• for your use you should just use a system-wide proxy here. No need to set any options in Selenium or wire. – browsermator Commented Mar 19 at 18:09
• I understand what you mean, but that would mean I cannot change IP in an automated fashion after every X clicks/interactions on the webdriver, correct? – Gizmus Commented Mar 20 at 19:41

1 Answer 1

Free proxies from sites like sslproxies. are often unreliable or dead. Try these fixes:

1. Check Proxy Status: Test if the proxy is alive using requests.get("http://httpbin./ip", proxies={"http": PROXY, "https": PROXY}).

2. Use verify_ssl=False: Some free proxies don't support SSL verification.

3. Use Paid/Rotating Proxies: Free proxies often fail. Consider services like Bright Data or ScraperAPI.