Periodic Tor IP Rotation in 10 minutes

The approach

We will set up Tor, create a proxy service to tunnel our requests through tor, and use the STEM library to rotate the IP periodically.

Downloads

1. Proxy Server: http://www.privoxy.org/
2. Tor: https://www.torproject.org/download/download-easy.html.en
3. Python: https://www.python.org/downloads/
4. Pip: https://pip.pypa.io/en/stable/installing/

You probably have python and pip already installed. If you don’t, please follow the instructions in the link.

Both Privoxy and Tor has excellent installation guides for all major OSes, please follow that in the link to set it up correctly.

Configuration

Open privoxy config sudo vi /usr/local/etc/privoxy/config (The path might be different for Linux/Windows)

Append the following line. Notice the . in the end.

forward-socks5   /               127.0.0.1:9150 .

Restart privoxy

sudo /path/to/Privoxy/stopPrivoxy.sh
sudo /path/to/Privoxy/startPrivoxy.sh

Install stem library