Using socks proxy with requests.

sock_you.py

# requirements.txt
# PySocks==1.6.7
# requests==2.18.0  (!)

import socket
import socks
import requests


DEFAULT_SOCKET = socket.socket # Remove this if you don't plan to "deactivate" the proxy later

ip = 'xx.xxx.xxx.xx'  # change your proxy's ip
port = 9999  # change your proxy's port (int)

# Set up a proxy
socks.setdefaultproxy(socks.PROXY_TYPE_SOCKS5, ip, port)
socket.socket = socks.socksocket

s = requests.Session()
s.get(.....)

# Use this only if you plan to make requests without any proxies later
socket.socket = DEFAULT_SOCKET

# OR use contect manager 
from contextlib import contextmanager

DEFAULT_SOCKET = socket.socket

@contextmanager
def sock_socket(ip, port):
    socks.setdefaultproxy(socks.PROXY_TYPE_SOCKS5, ip, port)
    socket.socket = socks.socksocket
    yield
    socket.socket = DEFAULT_SOCKET
    
# example
with sock_socket(ip,port):
    requests.get....