How to make python Requests work via socks proxy

The modern way:

pip install -U requests[socks]

then

import requests

resp = requests.get('http://go.to', 
                    proxies=dict(http='socks5://user:pass@host:port',
                                 https='socks5://user:pass@host:port'))

As of requests version 2.10.0, released on 2016-04-29, requests supports SOCKS.

It requires PySocks, which can be installed with pip install pysocks.

Example usage:

import requests
proxies = {'http': "socks5://myproxy:9191"}
requests.get('http://example.org', proxies=proxies)

In case someone has tried all of these older answers, and is still running into problems like:

requests.exceptions.ConnectionError: 
   SOCKSHTTPConnectionPool(host='myhost', port=80): 
   Max retries exceeded with url: /my/path 
   (Caused by NewConnectionError('<requests.packages.urllib3.contrib.socks.SOCKSConnection object at 0x106812bd0>: 
   Failed to establish a new connection: 
   [Errno 8] nodename nor servname provided, or not known',))

It may be because, by default, requests is configured to resolve DNS queries on the local side of the connection.

Try changing your proxy URL from socks5://proxyhost:1234 to socks5h://proxyhost:1234. Note the extra h (it stands for hostname resolution).

The PySocks package module default is to do remote resolution, and I'm not sure why requests made their integration this obscurely divergent, but here we are.

You need install pysocks , my version is 1.0 and the code works for me:

import socket
import socks
import requests
ip='localhost' # change your proxy's ip
port = 0000 # change your proxy's port
socks.setdefaultproxy(socks.PROXY_TYPE_SOCKS5, ip, port)
socket.socket = socks.socksocket
url = u'http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/services/search/images?v=1.0&q=inurl%E8%A2%8B'
print(requests.get(url).text)

As soon as python requests will be merged with SOCKS5 pull request it will do as simple as using proxies dictionary:

#proxy
        # SOCKS5 proxy for HTTP/HTTPS
        proxies = {
            'http' : "socks5://myproxy:9191",
            'https' : "socks5://myproxy:9191"
        }

        #headers
        headers = {

        }

        url='http://icanhazip.com/'
        res = requests.get(url, headers=headers, proxies=proxies)

See SOCKS Proxy Support

Another options, in case that you cannot wait request to be ready, when you cannot use requesocks - like on GoogleAppEngine due to the lack of pwd built-in module, is to use PySocks that was mentioned above:

1. Grab the socks.py file from the repo and put a copy in your root folder;
2. Add import socks and import socket

At this point configure and bind the socket before using with urllib2 - in the following example:

import urllib2
import socket
import socks

socks.set_default_proxy(socks.SOCKS5, "myprivateproxy.net",port=9050)
socket.socket = socks.socksocket
res=urllib2.urlopen(url).read()