How to Rotate Proxies with Python

Published: 27 September 2020
on channel: John Watson Rooney
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In this video I go through how to implement rotating proxies using requests with Python. We look at scraping some free proxies and writing a script to see if they work. Although free proxies aren't any use for actual web scraping projects the principles are the same.

Code here: https://github.com/jhnwr/rotatingproxies
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