Rotating proxies for Scrapy
Project description
scrapy-rotating-proxies
This package provides a Scrapy middleware to use rotating proxies, check that they are alive and adjust crawling speed.
License is MIT.
Installation
pip install scrapy-rotating-proxies
Usage
Add ROTATING_PROXY_LIST option with a list of proxies to settings.py:
ROTATING_PROXY_LIST = [ 'proxy1.com:8000', 'proxy2.com:8031', # ... ]
You can load it from file if needed:
def load_lines(path): with open(path, 'rb') as f: return [line.strip() for line in f.read().decode('utf8').splitlines() if line.strip()] ROTATING_PROXY_LIST = load_lines('/my/path/proxies.txt')
Then add rotating_proxies middlewares to your DOWNLOADER_MIDDLEWARES:
DOWNLOADER_MIDDLEWARES = { # ... 'rotating_proxies.middlewares.RotatingProxyMiddleware': 610, 'rotating_proxies.middlewares.BanDetectionMiddleware': 620, # ... }
Concurrency
By default, all default Scrapy concurrency options (DOWNLOAD_DELAY, AUTHTHROTTLE_..., CONCURRENT_REQUESTS_PER_DOMAIN, etc) become per-proxy for proxied requests when RotatingProxyMiddleware is enabled. For example, if you set CONCURRENT_REQUESTS_PER_DOMAIN=2 then spider will be making at most 2 concurrent connections to each proxy, regardless of request url domain.
Customization
scrapy-rotating-proxies keeps track of working and non-working proxies, and re-checks non-working from time to time.
Detection of a non-working proxy is site-specific. By default, scrapy-rotating-proxies uses a simple heuristic: if a response status code is not 200, response body is empty or if there was an exception then proxy is considered dead. To customize this with site-specific rules define response_is_ban and/or exception_is_ban spider methods:
class MySpider(scrapy.spider): # ... def response_is_ban(self, request, response): return b'banned' in response.body def exception_is_ban(self, request, exception): return None
It is important to have these rules correct because action for a failed request and a bad proxy should be different: if it is a proxy to blame it makes sense to retry the request with a different proxy.
Non-working proxies could become alive again after some time. scrapy-rotating-proxies uses a randomized exponential backoff for these checks - first check happens soon, if it still fails then next check is delayed further, etc. Use ROTATING_PROXY_BACKOFF_BASE to adjust the initial delay (by default it is random, from0 to 5 minutes).
Settings
ROTATING_PROXY_LIST - a list of proxies to choose from;
ROTATING_PROXY_LOGSTATS_INTERVAL - stats logging interval in seconds, 30 by default;
ROTATING_PROXY_CLOSE_SPIDER - When True, spider is stopped if there are no alive proxies. If False (default), then when there is no alive proxies all dead proxies are re-checked.
ROTATING_PROXY_PAGE_RETRY_TIMES - a number of times to retry downloading a page using a different proxy. After this amount of retries failure is considered a page failure, not a proxy failure. Think of it this way: every improperly detected ban cost you ROTATING_PROXY_PAGE_RETRY_TIMES alive proxies. Default: 5.
ROTATING_PROXY_BACKOFF_BASE - base backoff time, in seconds. Default is 300 (i.e. 5 min).
FAQ
Q: Where to get proxy lists? How to write and maintain ban rules?
A: It is up to you to find proxies and maintain proper ban rules for web sites; scrapy-rotating-proxies doesn’t have anything built-in. There are commercial proxy services like https://crawlera.com/ which can integrate with Scrapy (see https://github.com/scrapy-plugins/scrapy-crawlera) and take care of all these details.
Contributing
source code: https://github.com/TeamHG-Memex/scrapy-rotating-proxies
bug tracker: https://github.com/TeamHG-Memex/scrapy-rotating-proxies/issues
To run tests, install tox and run tox from the source checkout.
CHANGES
0.2.2 (2017-03-01)
Update default ban detection rules: scrapy.exceptions.IgnoreRequest is not a ban.
0.2.1 (2017-02-08)
changed ROTATING_PROXY_PAGE_RETRY_TIMES default value - it is now 5.
0.2 (2017-02-07)
improved default ban detection rules;
log ban stats.
0.1 (2017-02-01)
Initial release
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