Using Smart Proxy Manager with R#
Warning
zyte-smartproxy-ca.crt
should be installed in your OS for the below code to work. You can follow these instructions in order to install it.
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 = ""))