Using Selenium WebDriver with Tor

Question

Because Tor Browser Bundle is just a patched version of Firefox, it seems that it should be possible to use a FirefoxDriver with Tor Browser. This is what I've tried so far:

String torPath = "C:\\Users\\My User\\Desktop\\Tor Browser\\Start Tor Browser.exe"; String profilePath = "C:\\Users\\My User\\Desktop\\Tor Browser\\Data\\Browser\\profile.default"; FirefoxProfile profile = new FirefoxProfile(new File(profilePath)); FirefoxBinary binary = new FirefoxBinary(new File(torPath)); FirefoxDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver(binary, profile); driver.get("http://www.google.com"); 

This results in a blank Tor Browser page opening with a popup message: Your Firefox profile cannot be loaded. It may be missing or inaccessible.

I know that the profile is valid/compatible because I can successfully start the browser and profile with:

binary.startProfile(profile, profilePath, "")); 

I don't know how to send commands to a browser opened in such a manner, however.

I've found similar questions, but I'm specifically looking for a Java solution, preferably tested on Windows.

I'm using a standalone Selenium library that can be downloaded here and the Tor Browser Bundle that can be downloaded here.

Answer 1

Because Tor Browser Bundle wasn't letting me use the WebDriver extension, I found a workaround in which I ran Tor from a regular Firefox browser. With this method, as long as the Tor Browser is open, you can use Tor with a regular Firefox browser.

• Open Tor Browser:

  File torProfileDir = new File(         "...\\Tor Browser\\Data\\Browser\\profile.default"); FirefoxBinary binary = new FirefoxBinary(new File(         "...\\Tor Browser\\Start Tor Browser.exe")); FirefoxProfile torProfile = new FirefoxProfile(torProfileDir); torProfile.setPreference("webdriver.load.strategy", "unstable");  try {     binary.startProfile(torProfile, torProfileDir, ""); } catch (IOException e) {     e.printStackTrace(); } 

• Open Firefox with some configurations:

  FirefoxProfile profile = new FirefoxProfile(); profile.setPreference("network.proxy.type", 1); profile.setPreference("network.proxy.socks", "127.0.0.1"); profile.setPreference("network.proxy.socks_port", 9150); FirefoxDriver = new FirefoxDriver(profile); 

• Close browsers. Note that if you plan on doing a lot of closing and reopening (useful in obtaining a new IP address), I advise setting the profile preference toolkit.startup.max_resumed_crashes to a high value like 9999.

  private void killFirefox() {     Runtime rt = Runtime.getRuntime();      try {         rt.exec("taskkill /F /IM firefox.exe");         while (processIsRunning("firefox.exe")) {             Thread.sleep(100);         }     } catch (Exception e) {         e.printStackTrace();     } }  private boolean processIsRunning(String process) {     boolean processIsRunning = false;     String line;     try {         Process proc = Runtime.getRuntime().exec("wmic.exe");         BufferedReader input = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(proc.getInputStream()));         OutputStreamWriter oStream = new OutputStreamWriter(proc.getOutputStream());         oStream.write("process where name='" + process + "'");         oStream.flush();         oStream.close();         while ((line = input.readLine()) != null) {             if (line.toLowerCase().contains("caption")) {                 processIsRunning = true;                 break;             }         }         input.close();     } catch (IOException e) {         e.printStackTrace();     }     return processIsRunning; }