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Attention Web Scrapers and Pen Testers: Slither is now a PyPI package! 🎉

kaelscion on July 12, 2019

Hey data science, web automation, web scraping, and data aggregation folks. Are you tired of needing to purchase proxy IP addresses that get blocke...
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Mpho Mphego

Does this package work with Selenium firefox proxy authentication?

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kaelscion • Edited

The framework returns proxy ip:port combinations as a list of strings. Yes, it can be used with selenium Firefox as the IP and User-Agents overrides/arguments accept a string argument.

Basically, treat the Snake() object as a curated list of IP and UA choices that can be used anywhere a string object is accepted as an IP and/or UA argument.

Were you running into a particular issue using Slither in your selenium Firefox project?

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Mpho Mphego

Beautiful, haven't used it as yet, but looking forward. I stumbled upon your Youtube video on Reddit.

Great content keep it up.

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kaelscion

Thanks so much! I've got a few videos up and always love to hear when people enjoy my content!