Using Selenium WebDriver with Tor

Question

Because Tor Browser Bundle is just a patched version of Firefox, it seems that it should be possible to use a FirefoxDriver with Tor Browser. This is what I\'ve

Answer 1

If you mostly care about remote-controlling a browser using Tor (and would maybe prefer to use the Tor Browser instead of vanilla Firefox), you can use Mozilla's Marionette. Use like

To use with the Tor Browser, enable marionette at startup via

Browser/firefox -marionette

(inside the bundle). Then, you can connect via

from marionette import Marionette
client = Marionette('localhost', port=2828);
client.start_session()

and load a new page for example via

url='http://mozilla.org'
client.navigate(url);

For more examples, there is a tutorial along with more documentation.

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