Proxy Servers for Selenium

You didn't do anything wrong — Chrome ignores credentials embedded in the --proxy-server value, so the proxy never receives them and the browser falls back to the native login prompt your script can't click. The old fix — a generated extension that answered the auth challenge — stopped working when Chrome 137 removed the --load-extension switch from branded builds (and Chrome 142 closed the --disable-features flag that briefly re-enabled it). You can still handle the challenge through the DevTools protocol (Fetch.continueWithAuth), but that's auth code you now own and maintain. The simpler route is to remove authentication from the picture: whitelist your server's IP in the Dashboard and pass a plain --proxy-server=IP:port. At PapaProxy.net whitelisting is the primary access method, so this works on any plan with no extra code.

Not for new projects. The original package was archived in January 2024 (its last release dates back to October 2022) and fails at import on current dependency versions. Community forks exist, but the architectural cost remains: Selenium Wire routes all browser traffic through a local interception proxy with its own TLS certificate — an extra hop that slows page loads and adds a MITM signature some targets detect. If the only reason you reached for it was proxy authentication, whitelisted IPs make the whole layer unnecessary: the vanilla driver connects straight to the proxy.

Rotating proxies for Selenium scraping come in two shapes, and the cheaper one is usually enough. --proxy-server is fixed for the lifetime of a browser instance, so rotation happens in your code: keep the exported proxy list, and each time you launch a driver, take the next address from it. For parallel scraping, assign each worker its own exit IP — packages start at 100 IPs, so a hundred concurrent browsers can each run behind a different address. Export the list from the Dashboard in TXT, CSV, or a custom field order to match whatever rotation logic you already have. If you'd rather skip managing the list entirely, rotating proxies handle the switching for you.

Yes — --proxy-server=socks5://IP:port works in Chrome and Firefox, with one caveat: the credentials limitation applies to SOCKS5 too, and there's no extension workaround for SOCKS authentication at all. With IP whitelisting that constraint disappears, so both protocols are equally usable. Every address in our packages answers on HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS4, and SOCKS5 — the protocol is a client-side setting, not a purchase option, so you can switch your fleet between HTTP and SOCKS5 without touching the proxy list.