HTTP over SOCKS support monkey patch for Mechanize, Faraday and it's based clients (OAuth2 like)

socksify_faraday.rb

# requires socksify gem
require "socksify"
require 'socksify/http'

# use w/ OAuth2 like OAuth2::Client.new(id, secret, connection_opts: { proxy: 'socks://127.0.0.1:9050' })
class Faraday::Adapter::NetHttp
  def net_http_class(env)
    if proxy = env[:request][:proxy]
      if proxy[:uri].scheme == 'socks'
        Net::HTTP::SOCKSProxy(proxy[:uri].host, proxy[:uri].port)
      else
        Net::HTTP::Proxy(proxy[:uri].host, proxy[:uri].port, proxy[:user], proxy[:password])
      end
    else
      Net::HTTP
    end
  end
end

socksify_mechanize.rb

# requires socksify gem
require "socksify"
require 'socksify/http'

# Mechanize: call @agent.set_socks(addr, port) before using
# any of it's methods; it might be working in other cases,
# but I just didn't tried :)
class Mechanize::HTTP::Agent
public
  def set_socks addr, port
    set_http unless @http
    class << @http
      attr_accessor :socks_addr, :socks_port

      def http_class
        Net::HTTP.SOCKSProxy(socks_addr, socks_port)
      end
    end
    @http.socks_addr = addr
    @http.socks_port = port
  end
end

Thanks :)

Hi, I'm new to Rails, I used your script for mechanize gem, but it gives no method error 'set_socks', can you please guide me where to put this file. I'm using rails 4.2.0 and ruby 2.1.2. Also I'm using version 2.7.3 of mechanize and the scrapping code is written in worker class for background processing.

@coderuby

I posted this gist quite long ago, and it probably won't work with modern versions of Faraday or Mechanize.
anyway, ensure that you're calling set_socks method of right class (agent.class.name should be equal to "Mechanize::HTTP::Agent" because I monkeypatch exactly this class by adding set_socks method).
here's an example from one of my gist's forks:

agent = Mechanize.new
agent.agent.set_socks('localhost', 9050) #Use Tor as proxy

@kuroineko, thanks for this update

@brauliobo did it work?