python crawler Scrapy uses proxy configuration

# Importing base64 library because we'll need it ONLY in case if the proxy we are going to use requires authentication import base64 # Start your middleware class class ProxyMiddleware(object): # overwrite process request def process_request(self, request, spider): # Set the location of the proxy request.meta['proxy'] = "http://YOUR_PROXY_IP:PORT" # Use the following lines if your proxy requires authentication proxy_user_pass = "USERNAME:PASSWORD" # setup basic authentication for the proxy encoded_user_pass = base64.encodestring(proxy_user_pass) request.headers['Proxy-Authorization'] = 'Basic ' + encoded_user_pass

DOWNLOADER_MIDDLEWARES = { 'scrapy.contrib.downloadermiddleware.httpproxy.HttpProxyMiddleware': 110, 'pythontab.middlewares.ProxyMiddleware': 100, }