FHTMitchell/proxyget

A tool for accessing web APIs / downloading files past corporate proxies

Proxyget

Use to retrieve files and web APIs through proxies you have access to but no admin control

Installation

git clone this repository and then install using pip install

If installing behind a proxy you might need to do something like this

$ git config --global --add http.proxy "http://<username>:<password>@<proxy-server>:<port>"
$ git clone https://github.com/fhtmitchell/proxyget.git
$ git config --global --unset http.proxy

On the bright side proxyget.gitclone will do this for you automatically when you have it installed.

Requirements

• python >= 3.6.0
• requests >= 2.20.0

Usage

To run in python

$ python
>>> import proxyget
>>> proxyget.get(...)

or in terminal:

$ python -m proxyget ...

To download file either in python

proxyget.get_file(<url>)

or in terminal

$ python -m proxyget <url> --out <outfile.html>
$ python -m proxyget <url> -b --out <outfile.exe>  # binary file

For further help

$ python -m proxyget --help

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To avoid putting in the proxy address each time create a file in the proxyget subdirectory called default_proxy.json of the form

{
  "server": <address_as_string>,
  "port": <port_as_int>,
  "domain": <domain_as_string_can_be_empty>
}

For example

{
    "server": "255.1.1.127",
    "port": 80,
    "domain": ""
}

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There are two additional subcommands proxyget.gitclone and proxyget.npminstall that will run git clone and npm install directly. For these to work the default_proxy.json must have been created. Run from the terminal as

$ python -m proxyget.gitclone <url.git>