‘/Users/ XXX/Applications/TorBrowser.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox’ applies to my local environment.

Copy Paste the snipped below and adapt the path.

This driver makes the bridge between Selenium and the Firefox browser you want to use to perform automated actions. Inside my project folder, I have created a folder called “driver” and pasted the Mozilla Geckodriver there. I use P圜harm the free Community Edition for writing my scripts. In my case, I had also the standard Firefox installed, but probably the Tor Browser will be enough. The Tor Browser itself uses the Firefox Browser technology. Copy-pasting snippets I found on Stack Overflow or somewhere else online didn’t really work well for me and I needed quite a lot of time to debug and experiment until it has started to work.įor Mac (and Linux) the following three requirements are required: 2) Selenium and Tor Browser to hide your IP addressĭue to some non-obvious pre-requirements running Selenium on the Tor Browser is a bit more tricky than it might sound at the beginning. I don’t use Proxy-IPs and it won’t be discussed here. If you need to rotate your Proxy-IPs frequently, it might put pressure on your budget in the long run. Paid Proxy-IPs are more reliable and quite cheap if you need only a handful. Moreover, you need to write additional code that scrapes Proxy-IDs for you, validates them, and incorporates them in your Selenium code during runtime. The problem with Proxy-IPs is that free available IPs are often blocked already and/or in general, they are not reliable for long-term usage.

Using a Proxy-IP might sound like a quick and simple solution.

There are at least three ways to hide your IP (or make it at least more difficult to track it correctly).

Often you want to avoid that your IP address gets blocked. There are several reasons why you might want to hide your IP address when scraping websites. The follow-up article will discuss how to use Selenium with the Tor Network and Google Chrome. This article shows how to implement a script that lets Selenium run on the Tor Browser on Mac.

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