Doing http requests through a SOCKS5 proxy in NodeJS

Question

I'm planning to do a series of HTTP requests in NodeJS though Tor.
Tor uses SOCKS5 so I went out and searched for a way to proxify HTTP requests in NodeJS.
I'm planning to the the default http.request() function to do the work.
However, I can't seem to find a way to use a proxy with that.
Someone suggested that I could do this:

var http = require("http");
var options = {
  host: "localhost",
  port: 9050,
  path: "http://check.torproject.org",
  method: 'GET',
  headers: {
    Host: "http://check.torproject.org",
  }
};
var req = http.request(options, function(res) {
  res.on('data', function (chunk) {
    console.log('BODY: ' + chunk);
  });
});

But it didn't work.
So, any suggestions?

Answer 1

I've just published two modules that should help you do this: socks5-http-client and socks5-https-client.

Just use those instead of the default http module. The API is the same. For example:

require('socks5-http-client').request(options, function(res) {     console.log('STATUS: ' + res.statusCode);     console.log('HEADERS: ' + JSON.stringify(res.headers));     res.setEncoding('utf8');     res.on('data', function (chunk) {         console.log('BODY: ' + chunk);     }); }); 

Answer 2

I know I'm answering an old question but there is a better solution available for this question, about how to use sock4 & sock5 proxy in Node.js. For the sake of simplicity, I will be using request-promise module however you can also use bare request module.

Requrement: socks-proxy-agent, request-promise

Example:

async function main() {


var proxy = "socks4://1.2.3.4:35618"

var agent = new SocksProxyAgent(proxy);

var options = {
    uri: 'http://targetUrl',
    agent: agent,
    headers: {
        'User-Agent': 'Request-Promise'
    }
}

try {
    var responce = await rp(options)
} catch(err) {
    console.log(err)
}

console.log(responce)  }

Answer 3

Not a complete answer, but you may want to keep your eye on these two modules.

https://github.com/Ayms/node-Tor

Support is being added into: https://github.com/Ayms/node-bot.

I sent him an email asking when he expected this to be complete, will update this post soon with that information.