First of all, lets install Tor.

• apt-get update
• apt-get install tor
• /etc/init.d/tor restart

You will notice that socks listener is on port 9050.

• tor --hash-password mypassword

So, update the torrc with the port and the hashed password. open following file.

• /etc/tor/torrc

enable following lines

• ControlPort 9051
• HashedControlPassword <your hash password>

Restart Tor again to the configuration changes are applied.

• /etc/init.d/tor restart

Install pytorctl which is a python based module to interact with the Tor Controller.

• apt-get install git
• apt-get install python-dev python-pip
• git clone git://github.com/aaronsw/pytorctl.git
• pip install pytorctl/

Tor itself is not a http proxy. So in order to get access to the Tor Network, we will use the Privoxy as an http-proxy though socks5..

Install Privoxy.

• apt-get install privoxy

Now lets tell privoxy to use TOR. This will tell Privoxy to route all traffic through the SOCKS servers at localhost port 9050. Go to

• /etc/privoxy/config

and enable forward-socks5:

• forward-socks5 / localhost:9050 .
• Restart Privoxy after making the change to the configuration file.

restart privoxy

• /etc/init.d/privoxy restart

• goto the /scrapper directory

install all dependencies from requirements.txt

• pip install -r requirements.txt

(run with sudo for resolve permission issue of torctrl)

• sudo python scripts/<file-name>.py

Data will be saved as .csv inside the data/ directory.

happy coding 😄