Scrapy Proxy SetupProfessional web scraping with mobile IPs

# settings.py

# Enable HTTP proxy
HTTP_PROXY = 'http://psx_YOUR_ID-mbl-us:PROXY_PASSWORD@gw.proxies.sx:7000'
HTTPS_PROXY = 'http://psx_YOUR_ID-mbl-us:PROXY_PASSWORD@gw.proxies.sx:7000'

# Or use SOCKS5 (requires scrapy-socks)
# HTTP_PROXY = 'socks5://psx_YOUR_ID-mbl-us:PROXY_PASSWORD@gw.proxies.sx:7001'

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

# Concurrent requests (adjust based on your proxy plan)
CONCURRENT_REQUESTS = 16
CONCURRENT_REQUESTS_PER_DOMAIN = 8

# Download delay (be respectful)
DOWNLOAD_DELAY = 0.5

# Retry settings
RETRY_ENABLED = True
RETRY_TIMES = 3
RETRY_HTTP_CODES = [500, 502, 503, 504, 408, 429]

# middlewares.py
import random

class RotatingProxyMiddleware:
    def __init__(self, proxy_list):
        self.proxy_list = proxy_list

    @classmethod
    def from_crawler(cls, crawler):
        username = crawler.settings.get('PROXY_USERNAME')
        password = crawler.settings.get('PROXY_PASSWORD')
        sessions = crawler.settings.getlist('PROXY_SESSIONS')

        proxy_list = [
            f"http://{username}-sid-{sid}-rot-sticky:{password}@gw.proxies.sx:7000"
            for sid in sessions
        ]

        return cls(proxy_list)

    def process_request(self, request, spider):
        proxy = random.choice(self.proxy_list)
        request.meta['proxy'] = proxy
        spider.logger.debug(f'Using proxy: {proxy.split("@")[1]}')

# settings.py - Add middleware
PROXY_USERNAME = 'psx_YOUR_ID-mbl-us'
PROXY_PASSWORD = 'PROXY_PASSWORD'
PROXY_SESSIONS = ['s1', 's2', 's3', 's4', 's5']

DOWNLOADER_MIDDLEWARES = {
    'myproject.middlewares.RotatingProxyMiddleware': 100,
}

# spiders/myspider.py
import scrapy

class MySpider(scrapy.Spider):
    name = 'myspider'

    def start_requests(self):
        urls = ['https://example.com/page1', 'https://example.com/page2']

        for url in urls:
            yield scrapy.Request(
                url=url,
                callback=self.parse,
                meta={
                    'proxy': 'http://psx_YOUR_ID-mbl-us:PROXY_PASSWORD@gw.proxies.sx:7000'
                }
            )

    def parse(self, response):
        # Process response
        yield {
            'url': response.url,
            'title': response.css('title::text').get()
        }

# Install scrapy-socks: pip install scrapy-socks

# settings.py
DOWNLOADER_MIDDLEWARES = {
    'scrapy_socks.downloadermiddlewares.socks.SOCKSDownloaderMiddleware': 100,
}

# In spider or middleware
def start_requests(self):
    yield scrapy.Request(
        url='https://httpbin.org/ip',
        callback=self.parse,
        meta={
            'proxy': 'socks5://psx_YOUR_ID-mbl-us:PROXY_PASSWORD@gw.proxies.sx:7001'
        }
    )

# pip install scrapy-rotating-proxies

# settings.py
DOWNLOADER_MIDDLEWARES = {
    'rotating_proxies.middlewares.RotatingProxyMiddleware': 610,
    'rotating_proxies.middlewares.BanDetectionMiddleware': 620,
}

ROTATING_PROXY_LIST = [
    'http://psx_YOUR_ID-mbl-us-sid-acct1-rot-sticky:PROXY_PASSWORD@gw.proxies.sx:7000',
    'http://psx_YOUR_ID-mbl-us-sid-acct2-rot-sticky:PROXY_PASSWORD@gw.proxies.sx:7000',
    'http://psx_YOUR_ID-mbl-us-sid-acct3-rot-sticky:PROXY_PASSWORD@gw.proxies.sx:7000',
    'http://psx_YOUR_ID-mbl-us-sid-acct4-rot-sticky:PROXY_PASSWORD@gw.proxies.sx:7000',
    'http://psx_YOUR_ID-mbl-us-sid-acct5-rot-sticky:PROXY_PASSWORD@gw.proxies.sx:7000',
]

# How many times to retry with different proxies
ROTATING_PROXY_PAGE_RETRY_TIMES = 5

# Ban detection (optional)
# ROTATING_PROXY_BAN_POLICY = 'myproject.policy.MyBanPolicy'

# spiders/product_spider.py
import scrapy
from scrapy import signals
import random

class ProductSpider(scrapy.Spider):
    name = 'products'
    allowed_domains = ['example.com']

    custom_settings = {
        'CONCURRENT_REQUESTS': 8,
        'DOWNLOAD_DELAY': 1,
        'RANDOMIZE_DOWNLOAD_DELAY': True,
    }

    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
        super().__init__(*args, **kwargs)
        self.proxy_sessions = ['s1', 's2', 's3', 's4', 's5']
        self.proxy_user = 'psx_YOUR_ID-mbl-us'

    def get_random_proxy(self):
        sid = random.choice(self.proxy_sessions)
        return f'http://{self.proxy_user}-sid-{sid}-rot-sticky:PROXY_PASSWORD@gw.proxies.sx:7000'

    def start_requests(self):
        urls = [
            'https://example.com/products/1',
            'https://example.com/products/2',
            'https://example.com/products/3',
        ]

        for url in urls:
            yield scrapy.Request(
                url=url,
                callback=self.parse,
                meta={
                    'proxy': self.get_random_proxy(),
                    'max_retry_times': 5
                },
                errback=self.handle_error
            )

    def parse(self, response):
        yield {
            'url': response.url,
            'title': response.css('h1::text').get(),
            'price': response.css('.price::text').get(),
            'proxy_used': response.meta.get('proxy', '').split('@')[1]
        }

        # Follow pagination
        next_page = response.css('a.next::attr(href)').get()
        if next_page:
            yield response.follow(
                next_page,
                callback=self.parse,
                meta={'proxy': self.get_random_proxy()}
            )

    def handle_error(self, failure):
        self.logger.error(f'Request failed: {failure.request.url}')