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# Proxy support

Proxies are supported at the browser level, through the `proxy` key of the
[`PLAYWRIGHT_LAUNCH_OPTIONS`](reference/settings.md#std-setting-PLAYWRIGHT_LAUNCH_OPTIONS) setting:

```python
from scrapy import Request, Spider


class ProxySpider(Spider):
    name = "proxy"
    custom_settings = {
        "PLAYWRIGHT_LAUNCH_OPTIONS": {
            "proxy": {
                "server": "http://myproxy.com:3128",
                "username": "user",
                "password": "pass",
            },
        }
    }

    async def start(self):
        yield Request("http://httpbin.org/get", meta={"playwright": True})

    def parse(self, response, **kwargs):
        print(response.text)
```

They can also be set at the context level, through the
[`PLAYWRIGHT_CONTEXTS`](reference/settings.md#std-setting-PLAYWRIGHT_CONTEXTS) setting or the
[`playwright_context_kwargs`](reference/meta.md#std-reqmeta-playwright_context_kwargs) meta key when [creating contexts
while crawling](contexts.md#create-contexts):

```python
PLAYWRIGHT_CONTEXTS = {
    "default": {
        "proxy": {
            "server": "http://default-proxy.com:3128",
            "username": "user1",
            "password": "pass1",
        },
    },
    "alternative": {
        "proxy": {
            "server": "http://alternative-proxy.com:3128",
            "username": "user2",
            "password": "pass2",
        },
    },
}
```

See also:

- The [upstream Playwright section on HTTP proxies](https://playwright.dev/python/docs/network#http-proxy).
- [zyte-smartproxy-playwright](https://github.com/zytedata/zyte-smartproxy-playwright), which provides
  seamless support for [Zyte Smart Proxy Manager](https://www.zyte.com/smart-proxy-manager/) in the Node.js version of
  Playwright.