Python requests ignores proxies

Question

I've been trying to make a program to check for IP addresses using python but the requests module doesn't use proxies I gave to it, Here is part of the code:

proxies = {"http" : "socks4://51.254.162.207:5678"}
ip = requests.get('https://api.ipify.org',proxies=proxies).content.decode('utf8') 
print(ip)
input("press any key to finish ...")

I always get my own Public IP it is also noteworthy that I am using a VPN

Thanks in advance !

Answer 1

You have to set a https entry in your dict:

#      HERE  ---v
proxies = {"https" : "socks4://51.254.162.207:5678"}
ip = requests.get('https://api.ipify.org',proxies=proxies).content.decode('utf8')

Don't forget to install requests with socks support:

# pip install requests[socks]