How to use Tor with Chrome browser through Selenium

Question

I'm trying to run my selenium driver on Tor. Note that the script already runs with no errors without Tor.

This is what I've done so far:

1) I called the Tor framework

import socks
import socket
from stem.util import term    


import stem.process

SOCKS_PORT=7000 

socks.setdefaultproxy(proxy_type=socks.PROXY_TYPE_SOCKS5,
                      addr = "127.0.0.1", 
                      port = SOCKS_PORT)
socket.socket = socks.socksocket

# Perform DNS resolution through the socket
def getaddrinfo(*args):   return [(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM, 6, '', (args[0], args[1]))]

socket.getaddrinfo = getaddrinfo

def print_bootstrap_lines(line):   
    if "Bootstrapped " in line:
      print(term.format(line, term.Color.GREEN))

tor_process = stem.process.launch_tor_with_config(
    tor_cmd = "C:/Users/my-username\Desktop/Tor Browser/Browser/TorBrowser/Tor//tor.exe" ,
    config = { 'SocksPort': str(SOCKS_PORT),},
    init_msg_handler = print_bootstrap_lines,
)

2. After calling the Tor framework which is like a container to my understanding, I then called the Chrome driver:

   from selenium import webdriver
   from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys
   from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options
   options = Options()
   options.binary_location = r'C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe'
   driver = webdriver.Chrome(options=options, executable_path = r'C:\Users\my-username\chromedriver')
   

3) At this point I insert the scraping script.

4) Close driver and kill the Tor process:

driver.close()   
tor_process.kill()

The output I get is the following:

Apr 15 14:31:20.000 [notice] Bootstrapped 0%: Starting
Apr 15 14:31:23.000 [notice] Bootstrapped 10%: Finishing handshake with directory server
Apr 15 14:31:23.000 [notice] Bootstrapped 80%: Connecting to the Tor network
Apr 15 14:31:23.000 [notice] Bootstrapped 90%: Establishing a Tor circuit
Apr 15 14:31:24.000 [notice] Bootstrapped 100%: Done
Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "<ipython-input-2-2b2233fc0ae4>", line 1, in <module>
    runfile('C:/Users/my-username-folder/FireStarter_All_1Step_2.py', wdir='C:/Users/my-username-folder')

  File "C:\Users\my-username\AppData\Local\Continuum\anaconda3\lib\site-packages\spyder_kernels\customize\spydercustomize.py", line 786, in runfile
    execfile(filename, namespace)

  File "C:\Users\my-username\AppData\Local\Continuum\anaconda3\lib\site-packages\spyder_kernels\customize\spydercustomize.py", line 110, in execfile
    exec(compile(f.read(), filename, 'exec'), namespace)

  File "C:/Users/my-username-folder/FireStarter_All_1Step_2.py", line 94, in <module>
    driver = webdriver.Chrome(options=options, executable_path = r'C:\Users\my-username-folder\chromedriver')

  File "C:\Users\my-username\AppData\Local\Continuum\anaconda3\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\chrome\webdriver.py", line 73, in __init__
    self.service.start()

  File "C:\Users\my-username\AppData\Local\Continuum\anaconda3\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\common\service.py", line 104, in start
    raise WebDriverException("Can not connect to the Service %s" % self.path)

WebDriverException: Can not connect to the Service C:\Users\my-username-folder\chromedriver

What am I doing wrong?

Update: I am looking to use Tor with Chrome browser.

Answer 1

To use Tor with Chrome browser through Selenium you can use the following solution:

• Code Block:

  from selenium import webdriver
  import os
  
  # To use Tor's SOCKS proxy server with chrome, include the socks protocol in the scheme with the --proxy-server option
  # PROXY = "socks5://127.0.0.1:9150" # IP:PORT or HOST:PORT
  
  torexe = os.popen(r'C:\Users\Debanjan.B\Desktop\Tor Browser\Browser\TorBrowser\Tor\tor.exe')
  PROXY = "socks5://localhost:9050" # IP:PORT or HOST:PORT
  options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
  options.add_argument('--proxy-server=%s' % PROXY)
  driver = webdriver.Chrome(chrome_options=options, executable_path=r'C:\Utility\BrowserDrivers\chromedriver.exe')
  driver.get("http://check.torproject.org")
  

• Browser Snapshot:

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