Tor – Daoyuan Li

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.

Tag: Tor

Configure Selenium and Chrome to use Tor proxy