gosom / gosom/google-maps-scraper

Username and password required for Socks5 proxy without auth

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Description

I rebuild the code after the fix from the pull request #167 regarding the issue #166 and managed to perform a basic scraping task.
When I tried adding a local Socks5 proxy without any authentication configured, the job failed to start with the following error message :

2025/08/27 14:17:54 error scraping job 33589605-1cd9-4f69-9809-a8cdfdecadd3: failed to start auth proxy for socks5://127.0.0.1:9050: username and password are required

The proxy I used is tor from the windows expert bundle that I launched using the CLI and the address I gave to the scraper is socks5://127.0.0.1:9050 .

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Research direction

Reproduce the failure with the Windows Tor expert bundle at socks5://127.0.0.1:9050, then trace the scraper's proxy setup and authentication path. The fix is done when a SOCKS5 proxy without credentials starts successfully while authenticated proxy behavior remains intact.

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Assessment

Tech stack
go
Domain
backend, networking
Issue type
Bug
Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
35/100

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