Tor Browser with RSelenium in Linux/Windows

Question

Looking to use RSelenium and Tor using my Linux machine to return the Tor IP (w/Firefox as Tor Browser). This is doable with Python, but having trouble with it in R. Can any

Answer 1

Something like the following should work:

browserP <- paste0(Sys.getenv('HOME'),"/Desktop/tor-browser_en-US/Browser/firefox")
jArg <- paste0("-Dwebdriver.firefox.bin='", browserP, "'")
selServ <- RSelenium::startServer(javaargs = jArg)

UPDATE:

This worked for me on windows. Firstly run the beta version:

checkForServer(update = TRUE, beta = TRUE, rename = FALSE)

Next open a version of the tor browser manually.

library(RSelenium)
browserP <- "C:/Users/john/Desktop/Tor Browser/Browser/firefox.exe"
jArg <- paste0("-Dwebdriver.firefox.bin=\"", browserP, "\"")
pLoc <- "C:/Users/john/Desktop/Tor Browser/Browser/TorBrowser/Data/Browser/profile.meek-http-helper/"
jArg <- c(jArg, paste0("-Dwebdriver.firefox.profile=\"", pLoc, "\""))
selServ <- RSelenium::startServer(javaargs = jArg)

remDr <- remoteDriver(extraCapabilities = list(marionette = TRUE))
remDr$open()
remDr$navigate("https://check.torproject.org/")

> remDr$getTitle()
[[1]]
[1] "Congratulations. This browser is configured to use Tor."