Using Tweepy API Behind Proxy

I have a using Tweepy, a python wrapper for Twitter.I am writing a small GUI application in Python which updates my twitter account. Currently, I am just testing if the I can get c

Solution 1:

I guess you should set 'https_proxy' instead.

On my linux, I use this:

> export HTTPS_PROXY="http://xxxx:8888"

before running my Tweepy script.

Tweep uses 'requests' package for sending request, read http://docs.python-requests.org/en/master/user/advanced/#proxies for more.

Solution 2:

The proxy support in tweepy is severely lacking; there is a patch available that aims to fix that problem.

The patch switches Tweepy from using httplib directly to using urllib2 instead, which means it'd honour the http_proxy environment variable.

Solution 3:

EDIT: Turns out this isn't a viable answer, but I'm leaving it here for reference

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Since a quick glance of the code shows that tweepy is using urllib2.urlopen & co., the easiest is possibly to just override the default opener...

# 'x.x.x.x' = IP of squid server
your_squid_server = urllib2.ProxyHandler({'http': 'x.x.x.x', 'https': 'x.x.x.x'})
new_opener = urllib2.build_opener(your_squid_server)
urllib2.install_opener(new_opener) 

Haven't get an environment to check that at the moment though...

Do the above before importing tweepy to make sure the new opener is in effect

Solution 4:

this is an old question, but hopefully this helps.

https://bitbucket.org/sakito/tweepy provides tweepy with urllib merged into it; the proxy settings works well. there is a little problem with the stream (in my case, at least), but it is usable with a little tweak.