Use a proxy with Python requests

Get your details

Copy the host, port, username and password for your proxy from the dashboard. Where this page writes <host>, <port>, <username> or <password>, paste your own values.

Configure a session

Read the credentials from environment variables so they stay out of source control.

import os
import requests

proxy = "http://{u}:{p}@{h}:{port}".format(
    u=os.environ["PROXY_USER"],
    p=os.environ["PROXY_PASS"],
    h=os.environ["PROXY_HOST"],
    port=os.environ["PROXY_PORT"],
)

session = requests.Session()
session.proxies = {"http": proxy, "https": proxy}

print(session.get("https://api.ipify.org", timeout=30).text)

Handle failures

Always pass a timeout, and catch requests.exceptions.ProxyError and requests.exceptions.ConnectTimeout so one bad connection does not end a long job.