How to Set Up Proxies in Python Requests

import requests

proxies = {
    "http": "http://user:pass@host:port",
    "https": "http://user:pass@host:port",
}

resp = requests.get("https://httpbin.org/ip", proxies=proxies, timeout=15)
print(resp.json())

Requests reads the same proxy dict for both http and https keys, so authenticated HTTP and HTTPS backconnect endpoints work with one entry. Use a persistent requests.Session() when firing many calls so connections are pooled, and always set a timeout because a dead proxy will otherwise hang the thread. For SOCKS5 endpoints install the requests[socks] extra and switch the scheme to socks5h://.

Python Requests works cleanly with rotating backconnect endpoints — point it at a single gateway host and the provider rotates the exit IP for you.

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