Scrapinghub / Crawlera Proxy Not Working with TestCafe?

[doverradio]

What is your Test Scenario?

I am trying to use TestCafe with proxies, specifically proxies coming from the service scrapinghub.com and their product 'crawlera'. It's supposed to produce a brand new proxy ip from a pool of over 1 million ips. Sounds great up until I tried using this with TestCafe and every page never loads. I don't understand what I'm doing wrong so I need guidance please.

What is the Current behavior?

After using crawlera's proxy settings, the pages never load.

What is the Expected behavior?

Need pages to load.

What is your web application and your TestCafe test code?

Check this, easy simple script:

// google_tc.js
import { Selector } from 'testcafe';

fixture `example`
    .page `https://www.google.com/`;

test('Load Google.com', async t => {
    await t
        .typeText('input[name="q"]', 'home furniture')
        .wait(5000)
        .pressKey('enter');

}); 

Now, when I issue the command, I use this command:

testcafe google_tc.js --proxy <api-key-of-crawlera>:@proxy.crawlera.com:8010

So, while I cannot give publicly my API key, please see the syntax of my command. Is it right? I am using .testcaferc.json in same directory to cover other settings such as browser to use.

[LavrovArtem]

I think you type the unnecessary colon(:) symbol after <api-key-of-crawlera> if you don't want to pass a password.

[doverradio]

After hearing from scrapinghub.com's support, they advised me to leave out the '/' at the end of my command. Previously I put the command in my initial post but after I checked my actual script, my command was this:

testcafe google_tc.js --proxy <api-key-of-crawlera>:@proxy.crawlera.com:8010/

So, my mistake. The script of TestCafe will in fact work with crawlera proxies as long as the command you issue is like this:

testcafe google_tc.js --proxy <api-key-of-crawlera>:@proxy.crawlera.com:8010

Hopefully this helps others!

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