Open tor browser with selenium

Question

Is it possible to make selenium use the TOR browser? Does anyone have any code they could copy-paste?

Answer 1

To open tor browser with Selenium driven GeckoDriver you need to:

• Download and install the TOR Browser

• Download the latest GeckoDriver v0.26.0 and place it in your system.

• Install the recent Mozilla Firefox v77.0.1 browser.

• You can use the following code block to open the TOR enabled browser:

  from selenium import webdriver
  from selenium.webdriver.firefox.firefox_profile import FirefoxProfile
  import os
  
  torexe = os.popen(r'C:\Users\username\Desktop\Tor Browser\Browser\TorBrowser\Tor\tor.exe')
  profile = FirefoxProfile(r'C:\Users\username\Desktop\Tor Browser\Browser\TorBrowser\Data\Browser\profile.default')
  profile.set_preference('network.proxy.type', 1)
  profile.set_preference('network.proxy.socks', '127.0.0.1')
  profile.set_preference('network.proxy.socks_port', 9050)
  profile.set_preference("network.proxy.socks_remote_dns", False)
  profile.update_preferences()
  firefox_options = webdriver.FirefoxOptions()
  firefox_options.binary_location = r'C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe'
  driver = webdriver.Firefox(firefox_profile= profile, options = firefox_options, executable_path=r'C:\WebDrivers\geckodriver.exe')
  driver.get("http://check.torproject.org")
  

• Browser Snapshot:

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Alternative using Firefox Nightly

As an alternative you can also download, install and use the recent Firefox Nightly v79.0a1 browser.

• Code Block:

  from selenium import webdriver
  from selenium.webdriver.firefox.firefox_profile import FirefoxProfile
  import os
  
  torexe = os.popen(r'C:\Users\username\Desktop\Tor Browser\Browser\TorBrowser\Tor\tor.exe')
  profile = FirefoxProfile(r'C:\Users\username\Desktop\Tor Browser\Browser\TorBrowser\Data\Browser\profile.default')
  profile.set_preference('network.proxy.type', 1)
  profile.set_preference('network.proxy.socks', '127.0.0.1')
  profile.set_preference('network.proxy.socks_port', 9050)
  profile.set_preference("network.proxy.socks_remote_dns", False)
  profile.update_preferences()
  firefox_options = webdriver.FirefoxOptions()
  firefox_options.binary_location = r'C:\Program Files\Firefox Nightly\firefox.exe'
  driver = webdriver.Firefox(firefox_profile= profile, options = firefox_options, executable_path=r'C:\WebDrivers\geckodriver.exe')
  driver.get("http://check.torproject.org")
  

• Browser Snapshot:

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Alternative using Chrome

As an alternative you can also download, install and use the recent Chrome v84 browser.

• Code Block:

  from selenium import webdriver
  import os
  
  torexe = os.popen(r'C:\Users\username\Desktop\Tor Browser\Browser\TorBrowser\Tor\tor.exe')
  PROXY = "socks5://localhost:9050" # IP:PORT or HOST:PORT
  options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
  options.add_argument('--proxy-server=%s' % PROXY)
  driver = webdriver.Chrome(chrome_options=options, executable_path=r'C:\WebDrivers\chromedriver.exe')
  driver.get("http://check.torproject.org")
  

• Browser Snapshot:

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References

You can find a couple of relevant detailed discussions in:

• How to connect to Tor browser using Python
• How to use Tor with Chrome browser through Selenium