How to Use Tor For Web Scraping
In this article, we'll explain web scraping using Tor. For this, we'll use Tor as a proxy server to change the IP address randomly in either HTTP or SOCKS, as well as using it as a rotating proxy server.
mitproxy is a popular man in the middle proxy used in web scraping operations. However, to use it for scraping https websites the custom certificate must be installed.
For Chrome and Chromium browsers follow these steps:
mitmproxy using pip install mitmproxy or your systems package manager like:
sudo apt install mitmproxybrew install mitmproxymitmproxy in the terminal and it'll start a proxy on localhost:8080 on your machine.mitmproxy proxy attached to it:
google-chrome --proxy-server="localhost:8080"open -a "Google Chrome" --args --proxy-server="localhost:8080"chrome.exe --proxy-server="localhost:8080"http://mitm.it in the browser and download the certificate for your system.chrome://settings/certificates in the browser.Authorities tab.Import button and select the certificate from the step 4.
Now mitmproxy will be able to intercept and decrypt all https traffic going through it. This enables it being used with headless browser tools like Selenium, Playwright or Puppeteer.
In this article, we'll explain web scraping using Tor. For this, we'll use Tor as a proxy server to change the IP address randomly in either HTTP or SOCKS, as well as using it as a rotating proxy server.
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