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Reputation: 31

How do I use a SOCKS proxy with npm got package?

I'm using npm got package to do web scraping and I want to use a SOCKS proxy. The docs have this snippet about using proxies:

import got from 'got';
import {HttpsProxyAgent} from 'hpagent';

await got('https://sindresorhus.com', {
    agent: {
        https: new HttpsProxyAgent([skipped by me])
    }
});

So I've tried using socks-proxy-agent, but apparently the agent property of got only supports http, https and http2 keys.

How do I make got use my SOCKS agent?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 988

Answers (1)

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Reputation: 1125

agent property of got only supports http, https and http2 keys.

These are used to specify which agent should got use to fetch that kind of a resource. You can use a socks agent for each of these:

await got('https://sindresorhus.com', {
    agent: {
        http: yourSOCKSAgent,
        https: yourSOCKSAgent
    }
});

Upvotes: 0

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