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The aiohttp-socks
package provides a proxy connector for aiohttp.
Supports SOCKS4(a), SOCKS5(h), HTTP (tunneling) as well as Proxy chains.
It uses python-socks for core proxy functionality.
pip install aiohttp_socks
import aiohttp
from aiohttp_socks import ProxyType, ProxyConnector, ChainProxyConnector
async def fetch(url):
connector = ProxyConnector.from_url('socks5://user:password@127.0.0.1:1080')
### or use ProxyConnector constructor
# connector = ProxyConnector(
# proxy_type=ProxyType.SOCKS5,
# host='127.0.0.1',
# port=1080,
# username='user',
# password='password',
# rdns=True # default is True for socks5
# )
### proxy chaining (since ver 0.3.3)
# connector = ChainProxyConnector.from_urls([
# 'socks5://user:password@127.0.0.1:1080',
# 'socks4://127.0.0.1:1081',
# 'http://user:password@127.0.0.1:3128',
# ])
async with aiohttp.ClientSession(connector=connector) as session:
async with session.get(url) as response:
return await response.text()
Unlike aiosocksy, aiohttp_socks has only single point of integration with aiohttp. This makes it easier to maintain compatibility with new aiohttp versions.
FAQs
Proxy connector for aiohttp
We found that aiohttp-socks demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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