Using BrightData's socks5h proxies

Question

BrightData's datacenter proxies can be used with socks5 but only with remote dns resolution, thus the protocol should be given like socks5h://...

Testing it with curl works, but using it in crawlee it doesn't work. Just keeps hanging.

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    proxyConfiguration: new ProxyConfiguration({
      newUrlFunction: () => {
        return 'socks5h://brd-customer-...-zone-...:...@brd.superproxy.io:22228';
      },
    })

Any idea how it should work?

Edit: since I use CamouFox, I tried:

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        firefoxUserPrefs: {
          'network.proxy.socks_remote_dns': true,  // Enable remote DNS resolution
        },

But it still just hangs.

Jeno · Answer

Ended up using proxyChain. Local http proxy to BrightData socks5h.

Pepa J · Answer

Hi @Jeno Yes, unfortunately as far as I know the socks5 is not supported by crawlee yet. There is an Issue about it on GitHub where people discuss workaround using proxy-chain just as you mentioned https://github.com/apify/crawlee/issues/389

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Using BrightData's socks5h proxies