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Using external libraries with mitmdump

See original GitHub issue

Steps to reproduce the problem:

Develop a need to use an external package in your mitmdump script, e.g BeautifulSoup.
Realize it’s not documented. 😛

Any other comments? What have you tried so far?

The only reference I was able to find online to this issue was on Discourse. Although the solution presented there did end up helping me solve the issue - the fact that this is not documented anywhere (as far as I could tell) in the official docs is not great.

I would be happy to submit a PR in the Scripts part of the docs, but I don’t think the solution I ended up using is very good - I just ran /path/to/mitmproxy/libexec/bin/pip3 install <libname>.

System information

Using version 2.0.1 on OSX, installed via homebrew.

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Created 6 years ago
Comments:22 (7 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

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rikonorcommented, Apr 21, 2017

At the end of the day - none of this is documented in the docs, which is the biggest problem IMO.

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Kriechicommented, Apr 14, 2017

I’m not particularly happy with that, especially since this already works by using: $(brew --prefix mitmproxy)/libexec/bin/pip install my-dependency

The main problem is that packages will vanish when upgrading mitmproxy via homebrew-upgrade.

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