Using Smart Proxy Manager with R#
Warning
For the code below to work you must first install the Zyte CA certificate.
Note
All the code in this documentation has been tested with R 4.1.2.
Install R and follow Fetching HTTPS pages with Zyte Smart Proxy Manager to request URLs with
https
.Run R on the terminal using
R
command.Install httr library by running
install.packages("httr")
inside R prompt. If there’s an error sayingLibrary not loaded: /opt/X11/lib/libSM.6.dylib
runsystem("locate libSM.6.dylib")
.Load
httr
library by runninglibrary(httr)
inside R prompt.Run the sample code mentioned below inside R prompt after replacing
<SPM-APIKEY>
with Zyte Smart Proxy Manager API Key.
GET("http://toscrape.com", use_proxy(url = "proxy.zyte.com", port = 8011, username = "<SPM-APIKEY>", password = ""))