Snippet giving an example of how to query the Google Maps API, with proxy information.

google_map_query.py

import requests
import json
import time 

'''Decorator for retrying up to 10 times'''
def retry(exception):
	def outer_retry(f):
		def inner_retry(*args,attempt=0):
			n=0
			while True:
				try:
					return f(*args,attempt=n)
				except exception as err:
					n += 1
					time.sleep(10)
					if n == 10:
						raise err
					print("Retrying...")
		return inner_retry
	return outer_retry

'''Ask Google Maps for normalised results for the query `address`'''
@retry(IndexError) # Retry after IndexError
def google_map_query(address,attempt): # Note: attempt is for your book-keeping
	# Make the request and check for success
	r = requests.get("https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/geocode/json",
					 params=dict(key="<YOUR_API_KEY>",address=address),
					 # Comment out the following lines if you don't use a proxy
					 proxies=dict(https="https://<YOUR_NAME>:<YOUR_PASSWORD>@<PROXY_SERVER>:<PORT>"),
					 verify=False)
	r.raise_for_status()
	# Load the json and return the result
	js = json.loads(r.text)
	if len(js["results"]) == 0:
		return None        
	return js["results"]