Shadowsocks is a powerful vpn application, it can allow us to access some blocked website. In this tutorial, we will introduce how to use shadowsocks to access blocked websites using python.
Preliminaries
You should install shadowsocks and can access blocked website by your browser.
Set shadowsocks proxy
Shadowsocks use 127.0.0.1:1080 to a proxy defautly, if you change it. You should use your new ip:port proxy.
proxies = {'https': 'https://127.0.0.1:1080', 'http': 'http://127.0.0.1:1080'}Create a proxy handler
proxies_processor = urllib.request.ProxyHandler(proxies)
Ignore ssl verification
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Create a OpenerDirector object with proxy handler and ssl handler
opener = urllib.request.build_opener(proxies_processor, sslHandler)
Add http request headers for opener
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Get content from http response
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