Example showing how to use the proxy-chain NPM package to let headless Chrome use a proxy server with username and password

proxy-chain-example.js

const puppeteer = require('puppeteer');
const proxyChain = require('proxy-chain');

(async() => {
    const oldProxyUrl = 'http://bob:[email protected]:8000';
    const newProxyUrl = await proxyChain.anonymizeProxy(oldProxyUrl);

    // Prints something like "http://127.0.0.1:45678"
    console.log(newProxyUrl);

    const browser = await puppeteer.launch({
        args: [`--proxy-server=${newProxyUrl}`],
    });

    // Do your magic here...
    const page = await browser.newPage();
    await page.goto('https://www.example.com');
    await page.screenshot({ path: 'example.png' });
    await browser.close();
    
    // Clean up, forcibly close all pending connections
    await proxyChain.closeAnonymizedProxy(newProxyUrl, true);
})();

Hi @jancurn will the proxy server close by itself?

@gsouf Unfortunately not, you need to call closeAnonymizedProxy. I'll update the Gist

@jancurn I am trying to run puppeteer with proxy chain package on aws lambda but I am getting this error message:

"errorType": "Error",
  "errorMessage": "Protocol error (Target.createTarget): Target closed.",

code:

const chromium = require('chrome-aws-lambda');
const { addExtra } = require("puppeteer-extra");
const puppeteerExtra = addExtra(chromium.puppeteer);
const proxyChain = require('proxy-chain');

const StealthPlugin = require("puppeteer-extra-plugin-stealth");
puppeteerExtra.use(StealthPlugin());

exports.handler = async (event, context, callback) => {
    let finalResult = [];
    const url = ``;
    let browser;
    const oldProxyUrl = ''; // --> bright data proxy
    const newProxyUrl = await proxyChain.anonymizeProxy(oldProxyUrl);

    console.log("newProxyUrl", newProxyUrl)

    try {
        browser = await puppeteerExtra.launch({
            args: ['--no-sandbox', '--disable-setuid-sandbox', `--proxy-server=${newProxyUrl}`],
            defaultViewport: chromium.defaultViewport,
            executablePath: await chromium.executablePath,
            headless: chromium.headless
        });

        const page = await browser.newPage();

        await page.goto(url);

        finalResult = await extractElements(page);

    } catch (error) {
        return callback(error);
    } finally {
        await browser.close();
    }

    return callback(null, finalResult);
};