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

This works in MacOS Sierra.

First you need to configure both the Firefox and Tor browser Manual Proxy.

Go to your Preferences>Advanced>Network>Settings

Set SOCKS Host: 127.0.0.1 Port:9150 Check -> on SOCKS v5 in the browser menu bar.

You will also need to have Tor Browser open whilst running the R script in Rstudio ....otherwise you will get a message in the firefox browser "The proxy server is refusing connections"

You will also need to copy the name of your firefox profile in the script profile-name

Open Finder and got to /Users/username/Library/Application Support/Firefox/Profiles/profile-name

My R test script

 require(RSelenium)

    fprof <- getFirefoxProfile("/Users/**username**/Library/Application\ Support/Firefox/Profiles/nfqudbv2.default-1484451212373",useBase=TRUE)

    remDrv <- remoteDriver( browserName = "firefox"
                            , extraCapabilities = fprof)

    remDrv$open()
    remDrv$navigate("https://check.torproject.org/")

This will open an instance of the Firefox browser with the message "Congratulations. This browser is configured to use Tor."