Hi there!
So I was hoping programming might be able to help with this. I am trying to learn how to use Selenium for personal projects.

I have tried using normal, straight up selenium but it does not support authorized proxies…
I have tried SeleniumBase, but when I got it working, there were WebRTC leaks that I could not avoid.
I have tried using Undetected-chrome but that too I was unable to get authorized proxies working…
For proxies, I tried seleniumwire as well. That seems to use its own SSL certificates which unfortunately as far as I can tell is easy to detect.
Main purpose for me is web scraping and or simple login to X site, enter X info and close.

So my question is… What is the proper way to use Selenium for automating functions while avoiding detection?

Thank you in advance.

EDIT: I made this post because I am hitting a wall at every turn, and I feel like I might just be approaching this the wrong way, or maybe I’m just missing something crucial. I was hoping someone with more experience could explain to me what is the correct way of doing it without cobbling it together with duct tape.

  • @[email protected]English
    5•1 year ago

    You can do it with plain selenium all you need to set the proxy in the browser options.

    from selenium import webdriver

    PROXY_WITH_PORT= “111.222.333.443:8080” chrome_options = webdriver.ChromeOptions() chrome_options.add_argument(f’–proxy-server={PROXY_WITH_PORT}')

    chrome = webdriver.Chrome(chrome_options=chrome_options) chrome.get(“http://google.com”)

    In general you can pass any command like argument to the browser using options. For chrome you can find all the proxy related options here: https://www.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/network-settings/

    Also if you are using the latest selenium (4.10 I think) you don’t need to point to the chromedriver executable, selenium will automatically download it if it can’t find the driver

    Edit: more information about chrome arguments Edit: info about driver download

    • @[email protected]OPEnglish
      1•1 year ago

      Thank you. The problem with this is that it does not support authorized proxies though. You cannot pass user:pass through it. My janky solution was to uae something like pproxy to relay the connection through my own peoxy server without user:pass. Has not been fully effective though.

      I will look into doing this and using IP authorization instead of user:pass. Thank you for the help.

      How is vanilla selenium with WebRTC or DNS leaks?

      • @[email protected]English
        2•1 year ago

        Also since Selenium just drives an actual browser the WebRTC and DNS leaks will be the browser’s responsibility not selenium. As long as you can locate elements on a page your will be ok

      • @[email protected]English
        2•1 year ago

        You might need to install your own proxy on the selenium PC and then chain that proxy to the authenticated one. Then configure the driver to use the local unauthenticated proxy

    • bugsmithEnglish
      2•1 year ago

      programming.dev/c/learn_programming would also be a good fit for this.

      • @[email protected]OPEnglish
        1•1 year ago

        If I understood correctly crossposting is somewhat frowned upon to avoid duplocate posts on lemmy (and I agree with that) so I will remember for next time.
        Thanks!

  • @iliketurtlesEnglish
    4•1 year ago

    Not 100% sure if this is helpful, but here is what I’m importing and a snippet initiating webdriver. Sorry on mobile. The hardest part was getting the right chromium installed and getting the path right. I believe this is the one I used. sudo apt-get install chromium-chromedriver

    from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options
from selenium.common.exceptions import TimeoutException
from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys
from selenium.common.exceptions import NoSuchElementException
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC


driver = webdriver.Chrome("/usr/lib/chromium-browser/chromedriver")```
    • @[email protected]OPEnglish
      2•1 year ago

      Thanks! I appreciate your response, and love the username! :) Fortunately getting the right chrome driver working was one of the very few things that just worked for me. Have you gotten proxies working without proxy detection with this setup, and if so, what did you do?

      • @iliketurtlesEnglish
        2•1 year ago

        Oh, sorry haven’t tried proxies. Just scraping a single site.