scrapy-botproxy

BotProxy downloader middleware for Scrapy.

Overview

BotProxy is an IP Rotating HTTP Proxy. Plug BotProxy into your web scraping application and it will automatically route your requests through one of our outgoing proxy servers. Multiple locations, fresh IP addresses every day. Typical integrations take less than 5 minutes into any script or application.

Please note, in order to use this service you need to have active subscription. You can get one at BotProxy website.

Installation

From PyPI

pip install scrapy-botproxy

From GitHub

pip install -e git+https://github.com/botproxy/scrapy-botproxy@master#egg=scrapy_botproxy

Usage

settings.py:

DOWNLOADER_MIDDLEWARES = {
    'scrapy_botproxy.BotProxyMiddleware': 100,
}

BOTPROXY_USER = 'proxy_username'
BOTPROXY_PASSWORD = 'proxy_password'
BOTPROXY_LOCATION = 'us-ny'  # optional
BOTPROXY_COUNTRY = 'US'  # optional

You can also control botproxy behavior using scrapy request.meta property. Set botproxy_disable to True to temorary bypass proxy for current request. Set location or country to route request through selected location or any location in the specific country.