Zoom Proxy

Common users can use proxies to bypass blocking, to protect their personal data and to hide their real IP address or data about the equipment they use. But network administrators use them to analyze network traffic and test web applications.

Google Chrome doesn't have a built-in function to work with a proxy server, although there is such an item in the settings. But when you click on it, you are automatically "redirected" to the standard proxy settings in Windows (or any other operating system).

To run Selenium WebDriver on a Virtual Private Server (VPS), you need to follow these steps:

Choose a VPS provider and set up your VPS instance. Some popular VPS providers include DigitalOcean, Linode, and Vultr.

Connect to your VPS instance using SSH (Secure Shell) and update the package list:

sudo apt-get update

Install the required dependencies:

sudo apt-get install -y chromedriver

Download the appropriate version of the ChromeDriver for your browser version. You can download it from the ChromeDriver download page.

Move the downloaded ChromeDriver binary to a directory in your PATH, for example, /usr/local/bin/:

sudo mv chromedriver /usr/local/bin/

Give the ChromeDriver binary executable permissions:

sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/chromedriver

Install the required Python packages:

pip install selenium

Create a Python script to run Selenium WebDriver on your VPS instance:

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

driver = webdriver.Chrome()
driver.get('https://example.com')

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)

driver.quit()

Run the Python script on your VPS instance using SSH:

python your_script.py

To send data to an input field using Selenium, you can use the send_keys() method provided by the WebElement class. Here's an example:

from selenium import webdriver

# Create a new instance of the Firefox driver
driver = webdriver.Firefox()

# Navigate to a webpage
driver.get("https://example.com")

# Find the input field by its HTML attribute (e.g., name, id, class, etc.)
input_field = driver.find_element_by_name("example_input")

# Send data to the input field using send_keys()
input_field.send_keys("Hello, this is some text.")

# Close the browser window
driver.quit()

In this example, replace "example_input" with the actual attribute value (name, id, class, etc.) that uniquely identifies the input field on the webpage you are working with. You can inspect the HTML code of the webpage to identify the appropriate attribute to use.

If the input field does not have a unique identifier, you may need to use other locators or XPath to locate the element. Here's an example using XPath:

from selenium import webdriver

# Create a new instance of the Firefox driver
driver = webdriver.Firefox()

# Navigate to a webpage
driver.get("https://example.com")

# Find the input field by XPath
input_field = driver.find_element_by_xpath("//input[@name='example_input']")

# Send data to the input field using send_keys()
input_field.send_keys("Hello, this is some text.")

# Close the browser window
driver.quit()

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.