Requests with Axios and Tor on Nodejs

Requirements

Requirements from: tor-request

A Tor client.

It's highly recommended you run the official client yourself, either locally or otherwise. Tor is available for most systems often just a quick one-line install away.

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

apt install tor # should auto run as daemon after install

Misc Linux Command for running Tor as daemon --RunAsDaemon 1 thanks @knoxcard

/usr/bin/tor --RunAsDaemon 1

On OSX you can install with homebrew

brew install tor
tor # run tor

If you'd like to run it as a background process you can add & at the end of the command tor &. I like to have it running on a separate terminal window/tab/tmux/screen during development in order to see what's going on.

On Windows download the tor expert bundle (not the browser), unzip it and run tor.exe inside the Tor/ directory.

download link: Windows Expert Bundle

./Tor/tor.exe # --default-torrc PATH_TO_TORRC

See TorProject.org for detailed installation guides for all platforms.

Configuring Tor, enabling the 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.

Configure tor by editing the torrc file usually located at /etc/tor/torrc, /lib/etc/tor/torrc, ~/.torrc or /usr/local/etc/tor/torrc - Alternatively you can supply the path yourself with the --default-torrc PATH command line argument. See Tor Command-Line Options

Generate the hash password for the torrc file by running tor --hash-password SECRETPASSWORD.

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