Start and stop mitmproxy from Python script

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Hi all!
I wonder how to start and stop MITMProxy from a Python3 program. I need to programmatically start MITMProxy and exit it in a clean way in order to be sure that the output file is correctly flushed on disk.

Do you have any recommendations, hints, snippets, whatever about that?

Cheers!!

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What exactly are you trying to accomplish? You can either run mitmdump as a regular process and send it a Ctrl+C when you are finished (importing mitmdump from mitmproxy.tools.main would work as well), or you instantiate your own DumpMaster and thenn call master.shutdown() when you are finished.

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I solved this problem in my own script calling

from mitmproxy import ctx
ctx.master.shutdown()

mitmproxy v4.0.1

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@Gigiarum and @mhils:
Can you please elaborate how to start and stop mitm programatically?

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I create a system service that call my script launching mitmdump.