Make requests using Python over Tor
There are 2 aspects to your question -
- Making requests using Tor
- Renewing the connection as per requirement (in your case, after every request)
Part 1
The first one is easy to do with the latest (upwards of v2.10.0) requests
library with an additional requirement of requests[socks]
for using the socks proxy.
Installation -
pip install requests[socks]
Basic usage -
import requests
def get_tor_session():
session = requests.session()
# Tor uses the 9050 port as the default socks port
session.proxies = {'http': 'socks5://127.0.0.1:9050',
'https': 'socks5://127.0.0.1:9050'}
return session
# Make a request through the Tor connection
# IP visible through Tor
session = get_tor_session()
print(session.get("http://httpbin.org/ip").text)
# Above should print an IP different than your public IP
# Following prints your normal public IP
print(requests.get("http://httpbin.org/ip").text)
Part 2
To renew the Tor IP, i.e. to have a fresh visible exit IP, you need to be able to connect to the Tor service through it's ControlPort
and then send a NEWNYM
signal.
Normal Tor installation does not enable the ControlPort
by default. You'll have to edit your torrc file and uncomment the corresponding lines.
ControlPort 9051
## If you enable the controlport, be sure to enable one of these
## authentication methods, to prevent attackers from accessing it.
HashedControlPassword 16:05834BCEDD478D1060F1D7E2CE98E9C13075E8D3061D702F63BCD674DE
Please note that the HashedControlPassword
above is for the password "password"
. If you want to set a different password, replace the HashedControlPassword
in the torrc by noting the output from tor --hash-password "<new_password>"
where <new_password>
is the password that you want to set.
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Warning for Windows users: see post here.
There is an issue on windows where the setting for the controlport in the torrc file is ignored if tor was installed using the following command:
tor --service install
To resolve the issue, after editing your torrc file, type the following commands:
tor --service remove
tor --service install -options ControlPort 9051
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Okay, so now that we have Tor configured properly, you will have to restart Tor if it is already running.
sudo service tor restart
Tor should now be up & running on the 9051 ControlPort
through which we can send commands to it. I prefer to use the official stem library to control Tor.
Installation -
pip install stem
You may now renew the Tor IP by calling the following function.
Renew IP -
from stem import Signal
from stem.control import Controller
# signal TOR for a new connection
def renew_connection():
with Controller.from_port(port = 9051) as controller:
controller.authenticate(password="password")
controller.signal(Signal.NEWNYM)
To verify that Tor has a new exit IP, just rerun the code from Part 1. For some reason unknown to me, you need to create a new session
object in order to use the new IP.
session = get_tor_session()
print(session.get("http://httpbin.org/ip").text)
Here is the code you want to use (download the stem package using pip install stem
)
from stem import Signal
from stem.control import Controller
with Controller.from_port(port = 9051) as controller:
controller.authenticate(password='your password set for tor controller port in torrc')
print("Success!")
controller.signal(Signal.NEWNYM)
print("New Tor connection processed")
Good luck and hopefully that works.