Using a proxy

[DavidWillLaw]

Hello, I've looked into it and you used to be able to use aiohttp rather simply to route discord traffic through a proxy, but it seems they've updated their library and the old way no longer works. Is there an alternative method for routing a discord bot connection through a proxy?

This is the old way :
`from aiohttp import ProxyConnector, BasicAuth

basic_auth = BasicAuth(USER_PROXY_LOGIN, USER_PROXY_PASS)
connector = ProxyConnector(USER_PROXY, proxy_auth=basic_auth)

cient = discord.Client(connector=connector)`

[dolfies]

Looking at the code, the library should still be using the connector you pass to discord.Client(). Whatever changed there is on aiohttp's side.
However, the library has inbuilt proxy support. You can pass proxy and proxy_auth to discord.Client() and they'll be passed to aiohttp.ClientSession.request().

[lexicalunit]

@dolfies Can I ask what proxy you are using? I'd like to set up a proxy to handle global rate limits.

[DragonPig42]

client = discord.Client(proxy='http://u:[email protected]:39203')

Hey there, i followed ur method but the following error occurs,
aiohttp.client_exceptions.ClientConnectorError: Cannot connect to host discord.com:443 ssl:default [The parameter is incorrect]
Any advice to how to overcome that?

[Dastano]

Does it work with classes from your example as well?

Because when I use:
(Proxy placeholder)
client = discord.Client(proxy='http://u:[email protected]:39203') class MyClient(client):

class MyClient(client):

TypeError: Client.init() takes 1 positional argument but 4 were given

[antomin]

class MyClient(discord.Client): def __init__(self, **kwargs): super().__init__(**kwargs)

[TheRealRedSlime]

Hi, there isn't any mention of "proxy" in the docs, is that normal ?