How to Set Up SOCKS5 Proxies in Python (Requests, HTTPX, Scrapy)

Requests

pip install "requests[socks]"

import requests
proxies = {
    "http":  "socks5h://user:pass@gate.example.com:7777",
    "https": "socks5h://user:pass@gate.example.com:7777",
}
r = requests.get("https://httpbin.org/ip", proxies=proxies, timeout=30)
print(r.json())

Always use socks5h — the h routes DNS through the proxy.

HTTPX

pip install "httpx[socks]"

import httpx
client = httpx.Client(proxy="socks5://user:pass@gate.example.com:7777")
r = client.get("https://httpbin.org/ip")
print(r.json())

Scrapy

Install the middleware:

pip install scrapy-proxies

Add to your settings.py:

DOWNLOADER_MIDDLEWARES = {
    'scrapy.downloadermiddlewares.httpproxy.HttpProxyMiddleware': 110,
}

Set http_proxy and https_proxy environment variables to your socks5h:// URL before running scrapy crawl.

Testing

Every provider gives you a test endpoint. Hit it before running anything else — 90% of "my scraper is broken" tickets are credential typos.