How to Set Proxy for Chrome in Python Webdriver

Python Selenium Proxy in Chrome

There's nothing wrong with your code. That proxy is just not available/not working anymore.
Try to find another proxy that a better uptime. Keep it mind that public proxies have a noticeable latency so the page will load pretty slow.

Failing to set up proxy for chrome in Selenium (Python 3.7)

Below is the correct way to add proxy in chrome ,

JAVA:

ChromeOptions chromeOptions = new ChromeOptions();
String proxyadd = "176.9.119.170:8080";
Proxy proxy = new Proxy();
proxy.setHttpProxy(proxyadd);
proxy.setSslProxy(proxyadd);
chromeOptions.setCapability("proxy", proxy);
WebDriver driver  = new ChromeDriver(chromeOptions);

PYTHON:

from selenium import webdriver

PROXY="176.9.119.170:8080"
webdriver.DesiredCapabilities.CHROME['proxy'] = {
    "httpProxy": PROXY,
    "ftpProxy": PROXY,
    "sslProxy": PROXY,
    "proxyType": "MANUAL",

}

webdriver.DesiredCapabilities.CHROME['acceptSslCerts']=True

driver =webdriver.Chrome(r".\chromedriver.exe")


driver.get("https://www.google.com")

It seems that chrome is not able to connect to proxy may be it is using system proxy. Try above mentioned approach to set proxy

How to use chomedriver with a proxy for selenium webdriver?

Its possible for Chrome to be started with command lines with selenium web driver. The command line for the proxy is:

--proxy-server=:

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