How to change Tor identity in Python?

python tor

user873286 · Mar 27, 2012 · Viewed 40.3k times · Source

I have the following script:

import socks
import socket
socks.setdefaultproxy(socks.PROXY_TYPE_SOCKS5, "127.0.0.1", 9050)
socket.socket = socks.socksocket
import urllib2

print(urllib2.urlopen("http://www.ifconfig.me/ip").read())

which uses tor and SocksiPy

Now I want to change tor identity with each request, for example:

for i in range(0, 10):
   #somehow change tor identity
   print(urllib2.urlopen("http://www.ifconfig.me/ip").read())

How can I do this?

Answer

Tor wrote a new TOR control library in Python, stem. It can be found on PyPI. They provide some nice tutorials how to work with it, one of them explains how to change your identity:

from stem import Signal
from stem.control import Controller

with Controller.from_port(port = 9051) as controller:
  controller.authenticate()
  controller.signal(Signal.NEWNYM)

Make sure your config is correct.

How to change Tor identity in Python?

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