How to set proxy for Chrome browser in selenium using Java code

Question

I am trying to run my selenium java code to test a webpage. But webpage is not loading because of network restrictions. When I set the proxy manually and hit the url in browser it works fine. Now I need to pass those proxy setting while running the selenium code. Please help me on this.

I tried below code, but still it shows the same error:

Proxy p=new Proxy();


// Set HTTP Port to 7777
p.setHttpProxy("www.abc.com:8080");

// Create desired Capability object
DesiredCapabilities cap=new DesiredCapabilities();

// Pass proxy object p
cap.setCapability(CapabilityType.PROXY, p);

// Open  firefox browser
WebDriver driver=new ChromeDriver(cap);

Passing a Capabilities object to the ChromeDriver() constructor is deprecated. — Stéphane GRILLON, May 13 '19 at 09:57

score 9 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 12 '18 at 02:46

Passing a Capabilities object to the ChromeDriver() constructor is deprecated. One way to use a proxy is this:

String proxy = "127.0.0.1:5000";
ChromeOptions options = new ChromeOptions().addArguments("--proxy-server=http://" + proxy);
WebDriver webDriver = new ChromeDriver(options);

score 8 · Accepted Answer · edited Oct 19 '17 at 11:14

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Issue is resolved with below code -

Proxy proxy = new Proxy(); 
proxy.setHttpProxy("yoururl:portno"); 
proxy.setSslProxy("yoururl:portno"); 

DesiredCapabilities capabilities = DesiredCapabilities.chrome(); 
capabilities.setCapability("proxy", proxy); 

ChromeOptions options = new ChromeOptions(); 
options.addArguments("start-maximized"); 

capabilities.setCapability(ChromeOptions.CAPABILITY, options); 

driver = new ChromeDriver(capabilities);

edited Oct 19 '17 at 11:14

fllprbt

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answered Aug 04 '17 at 19:18

Praveen Medipally

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Hi @Praveen Medipally, I am getting "This site can’t be reached" error in browser with above code. I am having user id and password for my proxy server. I just injected it in my url like http://user:pwd@proxy:port. Is above code still working for you? – Solomon Raja Jun 14 '18 at 12:42
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Passing a Capabilities object to the ChromeDriver() constructor is deprecated. – Stéphane GRILLON May 13 '19 at 09:57

score 7 · Answer 3 · answered May 13 '19 at 10:08

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Passing a Capabilities object to the ChromeDriver() constructor is deprecated. You can find new official doc here.

ChromeOptions chromeOptions = new ChromeOptions();

Proxy proxy = new Proxy();
proxy.setAutodetect(false);
proxy.setHttpProxy("http_proxy-url:port"); 
proxy.setSslProxy("https_proxy-url:port");
proxy.setNoProxy("no_proxy-var");

chromeOptions.setCapability("proxy", proxy); 
driver = new ChromeDriver(chromeOptions);

answered May 13 '19 at 10:08

Stéphane GRILLON

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tried in selenium 4 and gave bad proxy on purpose and it still connects to website :(. – Dean Hiller May 05 '20 at 00:28

score 3 · Answer 4 · answered Jul 24 '17 at 20:20

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DesiredCapabilities dc;
dc = DesiredCapabilities.chrome();              
System.setProperty("http.proxyHost", "127.0.0.1");
System.setProperty("http.proxyPort", "9090");
System.setProperty("https.proxyHost", "127.0.0.1");
System.setProperty("https.proxyPort", "9090");                      
ChromeOptions options = new ChromeOptions();
options.addArguments("start-maximized");
options.addArguments("--disable-extensions");
dc.setCapability(ChromeOptions.CAPABILITY, options);
driver = new ChromeDriver(dc);

answered Jul 24 '17 at 20:20

Barney

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Hi Barney, thanks for the response. But when I tried to implement the above code, still it shows me same error - "This site can't be reached" – Praveen Medipally Jul 24 '17 at 23:06
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Passing a Capabilities object to the ChromeDriver() constructor is deprecated. – Stéphane GRILLON May 13 '19 at 09:56
tried in selenium 4 @Barney and with bad ip address and for some reason it still hits the website :(. – Dean Hiller May 05 '20 at 00:28

score 3 · Answer 5 · answered Apr 10 '19 at 18:03

Another way of doing it:

        boolean useProxy = true;
        ChromeOptions options = new ChromeOptions().addArguments(
                '--headless',
                '--no-sandbox',
                '--disable-extensions',
                '--proxy-bypass-list=localhost');
        if (useProxy) {
            options.addArguments("--proxy-server=http://ProxyHost:8080");
        }

        WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver(options);

See https://peter.sh/experiments/chromium-command-line-switches/ for more Chrome switches

How to set proxy for Chrome browser in selenium using Java code

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