Ensure Global Testing Accuracy with Proxies in Selenium

Firstly, you need to know that Selenium supports five programming languages: Java, C#, Python, Ruby, Javascript (Node). Depending on language you use, there are different ways to set up proxies
Secondly, you need to choose WebDriver you want to use. Selenium offers WebDrivers to all the most popular browsers (you can see all supported drivers here). In our tutorial we'd like to use Google Chrome Driver

There are some code examples for your preferred programming language and Google Chrome Driver

package chromeScripts;

import java.io.File;
import org.openqa.selenium.By;
import org.openqa.selenium.Proxy;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebElement;
import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriverService;
import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeOptions;

public class Example {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        
        String ProxyServer = "proxy.froxy.com";
        int ProxyPort = 9000;
        
        String sHttpProxy = ProxyServer + ":" + ProxyPort;
        
        Proxy proxy = new Proxy();
        
        proxy.setHttpProxy(sHttpProxy);
        
        ChromeDriverService service = new ChromeDriverService.Builder()
                                    .usingDriverExecutable(new File("PATH TO WEBDRIVER"))
                                    .usingAnyFreePort()
                                    .build();
        ChromeOptions options = new ChromeOptions();
        
        options.setCapability("proxy", proxy);
        
        options.merge(options);    
        
        WebDriver driver=new ChromeDriver(service, options);
        driver.get("http://froxy.com/api/detect-ip/");
        WebElement body = driver.findElement(By.tagName("body"));
        String bodyText = body.getText();
        System.out.println(bodyText);
    }
}

You're able to run all of these commands in your Terminal/Command Prompt window

To set up proxy connection please use proxy.froxy.com:9000 line within the punctuation marks (''). Depending on your type of language, punctuation may differ

Java:

  String ProxyServer = "proxy.froxy.com";
  int ProxyPort = 9000;

C#:
```
  HttpProxy = "proxy.froxy.com:9000"
```

Python:

   HOSTNAME = 'proxy.froxy.com'
   PORT = '9000'

Ruby:

   proxy = Selenium::WebDriver::Proxy.new(http: "proxy.froxy.com:9000")

Javascript (Node):
```
  let addr = 'proxy.froxy.com:9000'
```

All necessary data about server, port, login and password you can get from your Froxy Dashboard

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