Urllib3 Proxy

In a local network, you will need two computers to do this. One will be used as a proxy server, the other as a client. Then you need to activate the proxy on the server. And on the client PC - choose to access the Internet via a local network connection (i.e. from the server). Another option is to use a web server like Nginx.

A proxy pool is a database that includes addresses for multiple proxy servers. For example, each VPN service has one. And it "distributes" them in order to the connected users.

And it depends on what purpose the proxy is used for. But you should definitely give preference to paid proxies. They are more reliable, always available, and with that comes a guarantee of privacy. Unfortunately, personal data is often stolen from free proxies.

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()

To create your own proxy server, you can use open-source software such as Privoxy or Squid. Here's a step-by-step guide using Privoxy:

Install Privoxy: Download the latest version of Privoxy from the official website (https://www.privoxy.org/download/) and install it on your computer. The installation process varies depending on your operating system.

Configure Privoxy: After installing Privoxy, open the configuration file, usually located at /etc/privoxy/config.txt on Linux or C:\Program Files\Privoxy\config\config.txt on Windows. You can also find the configuration file in the installation directory.

Edit the configuration file: Open the configuration file in a text editor and make the following changes:

Uncomment the following line by removing the # symbol at the beginning:

listen-address 0.0.0.0

Uncomment the following line and change the port number if desired (e.g., 8118):

listen-port 8118

Uncomment the following line to enable HTTPS support:

forward-suffix .privoxy

Add the following line to forward requests to a specific destination server (replace with the desired server's address):

forward-suffix 

Save the configuration file and restart Privoxy: Close the text editor and restart Privoxy to apply the changes. On Linux, you can use the following command:

sudo /etc/init.d/privoxy restart

On Windows, locate the Privoxy service in the Windows Services list and restart it.

Test your proxy server: Open a web browser and configure it to use your new proxy server (e.g., http://localhost:8118). Test by accessing a website to ensure that the proxy server is working correctly.