How to Rotate Proxies With Python (Easy & Quick Tutorial)

Proxy rotation can help operate scrapers past most of the anti-scraping measures as it allows to imitate the behavior of multiple organic users. There are several techniques that can be used to rotate proxies:

- Changing proxies by manually configuring the proxy server settings in the browser;
- Using various proxy manager tools;
- Using automated proxy rotator tools such as Oxylabs’ Proxy Rotator;
- Executing proxy rotation with Python.

This video covers all the steps of how to rotate proxies with Python.

How to rotate proxies with Python?

Of course, before starting web scraping, you need to get reliable proxies. You can always use free proxies, but we have to mention that, most of the time, they are unreliable, slow, and unstable. There are various trustworthy proxy providers to choose from, with Oxylabs included. Most of the time, proxy providers allow downloading a list of proxies in a CSV or similar format. This list can be used to implement proxy rotation with Python.

Why is proxy rotation important?

Proxy rotation makes it easy to gather public data for various purposes that include but are not limited to:

- Price aggregation
- SEO monitoring
- Travel aggregation
- Competitive analysis
- Market research

Also, rotating proxies can be helpful for testing purposes, such as checking your servers' capability. With the help of proxy rotation, you can create a stable flow of requests to simulate specific activity, such as a sudden spike in traffic.

How to Choose the Best Proxies?

Join over a thousand businesses that use Oxylabs proxies:
Residential Proxies:
Shared Datacenter Proxies:
Dedicated Datacenter Proxies
SOCKS5 Proxies:

In this video, we cover the following topics:
0:00 Intro
0:13 What is proxy rotation?
0:53 Why is proxy rotation important?
1:25 Use cases of proxy rotation
1:51 How to rotate proxies with Python?
5:54 Rotating multiple proxies using Async

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[Karymemontolis]

As a user, I prioritize rotation and diversity in my proxy choices, understanding that regularly switching Zeus Proxy IP addresses and utilizing a diverse set of residential IPs minimizes the risk of a shadow ban.

[whyamihere]

Hello, is there a way to make it so the proxies are constantly changing via a api?? For example you have a 10k list of proxies with numerous sources, but the proxies get updated every 5 minutes

[onyilimba]

Residential proxy doesn't rotate in scrapy.