I’ve been trying to configure Selenium and Chrome to use Tor as proxy and constantly getting error messages like the following:
WebDriverException: Message: invalid argument: cannot parse capability: proxy
from invalid argument: Specifying ‘socksProxy’ requires an integer for ‘socksVersion’
(Driver info: chromedriver=2.44.609545 (c2f88692e98ce7233d2df7c724465ecacfe74df5),platform=Mac OS X 10.14.0 x86_64)
In the end I have to use HTTP proxy instead of SOCKS.
Install and start Tor:
brew install tor brew services start tor
Install privoxy:
brew install privoxy
Configure privoxy (vi /usr/local/etc/privoxy/config) to chain it with Tor:
forward-socks5t / 127.0.0.1:9050 .
Start privoxy by default on port 8118:
brew services start privoxy
Check if your traffic is proxied:
from selenium.webdriver.common.proxy import Proxy, ProxyType
from selenium import webdriver
prox = Proxy()
prox.proxy_type = ProxyType.MANUAL
prox.http_proxy = "http://localhost:8118"
prox.ssl_proxy = "http://localhost:8118"
capabilities = webdriver.DesiredCapabilities.CHROME
prox.add_to_capabilities(capabilities)
options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
options.binary_location = '/Applications/Google Chrome.app/Contents/MacOS/Google Chrome'
# options.add_argument('headless')
# set the window size
options.add_argument('window-size=1881x1280')
# initialize the driver
driver = webdriver.Chrome(options=options, desired_capabilities=capabilities)
driver.get('http://httpbin.org/ip')
Now you should see a different IP than your real one.
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