Rotating proxies in Selenium

Question

I use Selenium webdriver for Firefox with Scrapy and now I need to change proxies dynamically but all I've found so far in docs is that I can specify proxy in profile when I instantiate webdriver itself. So it means that I can't change proxy in dynamically?

Is there any way to do that?

Answer 1

selenium does not provide this kind of functionality. It is not possible to dynamically change the browser preferences/desired capabilities once you've launched the browser.

You have to close/quit the browser and start up another webdriver instance with a new proxy configuration.

See also relevant discussion:

• Modify preferences of RUNNING Firefox instance via WebDriver