Here is the code to accomplish those two things. The instances launched with selenium will use the SOCKS host that Vidalia starts, too. Launch Tor once from the Finder and leave it open so that Vidalia will be running. The Tor browser uses a SOCKS host at 127.0.0.1:9150 either through Vidalia or Tor installation. On my Ubuntu machine it is /usr/bin/tor-browser/Browser/firefox. On a Mac this path would typically be /Applications/TorBrowser.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox. Set the binary path to the firefox binary that Tor uses. I was able to do so on both Ubuntu and Mac OS X. Yes, it is possible to make selenium use the TOR browser. #I will leave handling of response status to you Tor_nd( 'GETINFO status/bootstrap-phase' ) #check that everything is good with your tor_process by checking bootstrap status ( tor_controller, password=control_password ) #in your torrc, you need to store the hashed version of 'password' which you can get with: subprocess.call( ''' + tor_path+'tor.exe' -hash-password %s' %control_password ) Tor_process = subprocess.Popen( ''' + tor_path+'tor.exe' -nt-service '-f' '' + torrc_path + ''', creationflags=DETACHED_PROCESS )

# somebody please let me know if there's a way to make this a child process that automatically dies (in windows) #calling as a detached_process means the program will not die with your python program - you will need to manually kill it # programmatically start tor (in windows environment)

#get a huge speed increase by not downloading imagesįf_t_preference( '', 2 ) #if you're really hardcore about your securityįf_t_preference( 'javascript.enabled', False ) In FF for example, like this: #set some privacy settingsįf_t_preference( '', False )įf_t_preference( '', True )įf_t_preference( '', True )įf_t_preference( '', True )įf_t_preference( '', True )įf_t_preference( 'signon.rememberSignons', False )įf_t_preference( '', 2 )įf_t_preference( '', True )įf_t_preference( '', 0 )įf_t_preference( '', 1 )įf_t_preference( '_version', 5 )įf_t_preference( '', '127.0.0.1' )įf_t_preference( '_port', 9050 )įf_t_preference( '_remote_dns', True ) Don't use the TBB, just set the correct proxy settings in whatever browser you're using.

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