Sent requests via HTTP proxy

It would be nice to be able to use the google-api-nodejs-client via a HTTP proxy. Request appears to support proxy configuration.

Possibly via the withOpts:

discover('youtube', 'v3').withOpts({ proxy: 'http://mylocalproxy.com' });

[aguegu]

As checking request doc,

add this line before google.options({ proxy: ‘http://127.0.0.1:7777’ }); helps:

process.env.HTTPS_PROXY = ‘http://127.0.0.1:7777’;

https://github.com/mikeal/request#controlling-proxy-behaviour-using-environment-variables

[mirismaili]

I tried google.options({ proxy: 'http://SOMETHING_WRONG' }). It works regularly! So it shouldn’t be the correct setting.

I found the below option works as expected:

const HttpsProxyAgent = require('https-proxy-agent')
const {google} = require('googleapis')
google.options({
	agent: new HttpsProxyAgent('http://127.0.0.1:8580')
})

This crashes on invalid proxies and works on valid proxies, as expected.

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Ref: https://github.com/googleapis/google-api-nodejs-client#request-options says:

For more fine-tuned control over how your API calls are made, we provide you with the ability to specify additional options that can be applied directly to the ‘gaxios’ object used in this library to make network calls to the API.

And gaxios introduces itself:

An HTTP request client that provides an axios like interface over top of node-fetch

And node-fetch uses http-agent:

https://github.com/node-fetch/node-fetch#custom-agent