NPX Proxy

You can make sure that your IP address and confidential information is protected with the help of special online services. It is recommended to perform such checks to confirm or deny the security of personal IP on a regular basis. It will help to avoid many troubles, including blocking your work in the network.

A proxy server acts as an intermediary between the client and the requested Internet resource. It is assigned the role of a kind of gateway or filter, which is responsible for submitting a request, receiving the required information and providing it to the user. The proxy server, if necessary, can make changes in incoming and outgoing data, the nature of which will depend on the type of proxy and its settings.

There are many free VPN services. But it is not safe to use them. After all, they are just engaged in parsing. That is, they collect information about users. Most often - their IP-addresses, as well as text data (these are search queries and their personal information).

To transfer requests session from Requests to Selenium, you can follow these steps:

First, import the necessary libraries:

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC
from requests.sessions import Session

Create a new requests session and perform your requests:

req_session = Session()
response = req_session.get('https://example.com')

Now, create a new Selenium WebDriver instance and pass the requests session as a parameter:

driver = webdriver.Chrome()
driver.get('https://example.com')
req_session_cookies = req_session.cookies.get_dict()
driver.add_cookies(list(req_session_cookies.values()))

Use Selenium to interact with the web page:

search_box = WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(EC.visibility_of_element_located((By.ID, 'search-box')))
search_box.send_keys('your search query')
search_box.send_keys(Keys.RETURN)

To continue using the same session for subsequent requests, you can create a new requests session with the cookies from the Selenium driver:

selenium_session_cookies = driver.get_cookies()
new_req_session = Session()
for cookie in selenium_session_cookies:
    new_req_session.cookies.set(cookie['name'], cookie['value'])

Now you can use the new_req_session to make new requests while maintaining the same session as the Selenium driver.

Remember to close the Selenium driver after you're done:

driver.quit()

It means a private proxy server used by several users. For example, one of them has bought a paid proxy and lets his friend use it for a fee. That is, he "shared" his proxy (shared means "common").