tor-axios

axios through tor network

Installing

Using npm:

$ npm install tor-axios

example

const tor_axios = require('tor-axios');
const tor = tor_axios.torSetup({
	ip: 'localhost',
	port: 9050,
})

let response = await tor.get('http://api.ipify.org');
let ip = response.data;
console.log(ip);

or

const tor_axios = require('tor-axios');
const axios = require('axios');

const tor = tor_axios.torSetup({
	ip: 'localhost',
	port: 9050,
})

const inst = axios.create({
	httpAgent: tor.httpAgent(),
	httpsagent: tor.httpsAgent(),
});

let response = await inst.get('http://api.ipify.org');
let ip = response.data;
console.log(ip);

Requirements

On Debian you can install and run a relatively up to date Tor with.

apt-get install tor # should auto run as daemon after install

On OSX you can install with homebrew

brew install tor
tor & # run as background process

Enable Tor ControlPort

You need to enable the Tor ControlPort if you want to programmatically refresh the Tor session (i.e., get a new proxy IP address) without restarting your Tor client.

tor --hash-password giraffe

The last line of the output contains the hash password that you copy paste into torrc

Jul 21 13:08:50.363 [notice] Tor v0.2.6.10 (git-58c51dc6087b0936) running on Darwin with Libevent 2.0.22-stable, OpenSSL 1.0.2h and Zlib 1.2.5.
Jul 21 13:08:50.363 [notice] Tor can't help you if you use it wrong! Learn how to be safe at https://www.torproject.org/download/download#warning
16:AEBC98A6777A318660659EC88648EF43EDACF4C20D564B20FF244E81DF

Copy the generated hash password and add it to your torrc file

# sample torrc file 
ControlPort 9051
HashedControlPassword 16:AEBC98A6777A318660659EC88648EF43EDACF4C20D564B20FF244E81DF

After Example,

const tor_axios = require('tor-axios');
const tor = tor_axios.torSetup({
	ip: 'localhost',
	port: 9050,
	controlPort: '9051',
    controlPassword: 'giraffe',
})

let response = await tor.get('http://api.ipify.org');
let ip = response.data;
console.log(ip);

await tor.torNewSession(); //change tor ip

response = await tor.get('http://api.ipify.org');
ip = response.data;
console.log(ip);

Test

use http://api.ipify.org api

mocha test/test.js

LICENSE

MIT