Using Selenium WebDriver with Tor

Solution 1:

Because Tor Browser Bundle wasn't letting me use the WebDriver extension, I found a workaround in which I ran Tor from a regular Firefox browser. With this method, as long as the Tor Browser is open, you can use Tor with a regular Firefox browser.

• Open Tor Browser:

  File torProfileDir = new File(
          "...\\Tor Browser\\Data\\Browser\\profile.default");
  FirefoxBinary binary = new FirefoxBinary(new File(
          "...\\Tor Browser\\Start Tor Browser.exe"));
  FirefoxProfile torProfile = new FirefoxProfile(torProfileDir);
  torProfile.setPreference("webdriver.load.strategy", "unstable");
  
  try {
      binary.startProfile(torProfile, torProfileDir, "");
  } catch (IOException e) {
      e.printStackTrace();
  }
  

• Open Firefox with some configurations:

  FirefoxProfile profile = new FirefoxProfile();
  profile.setPreference("network.proxy.type", 1);
  profile.setPreference("network.proxy.socks", "127.0.0.1");
  profile.setPreference("network.proxy.socks_port", 9150);
  FirefoxDriver = new FirefoxDriver(profile);
  

• Close browsers. Note that if you plan on doing a lot of closing and reopening (useful in obtaining a new IP address), I advise setting the profile preference toolkit.startup.max_resumed_crashes to a high value like 9999.

  private void killFirefox() {
      Runtime rt = Runtime.getRuntime();
  
      try {
          rt.exec("taskkill /F /IM firefox.exe");
          while (processIsRunning("firefox.exe")) {
              Thread.sleep(100);
          }
      } catch (Exception e) {
          e.printStackTrace();
      }
  }
  
  private boolean processIsRunning(String process) {
      boolean processIsRunning = false;
      String line;
      try {
          Process proc = Runtime.getRuntime().exec("wmic.exe");
          BufferedReader input = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(proc.getInputStream()));
          OutputStreamWriter oStream = new OutputStreamWriter(proc.getOutputStream());
          oStream.write("process where name='" + process + "'");
          oStream.flush();
          oStream.close();
          while ((line = input.readLine()) != null) {
              if (line.toLowerCase().contains("caption")) {
                  processIsRunning = true;
                  break;
              }
          }
          input.close();
      } catch (IOException e) {
          e.printStackTrace();
      }
      return processIsRunning;
  }
  

Solution 2:

I would try specifying the path of one of the existing profiles and initialize your profile instance for Tor so your code would look something like:

String torPath = "..\\Tor Browser\\Browser\\firefox.exe";
String profilePath = "..\\Tor Browser\\Data\Browser\\profile.default";
FirefoxProfile profile = new FirefoxProfile(new File(profilePath));
FirefoxBinary binary = new FirefoxBinary(new File(torPath));
FirefoxDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver(binary, profile);
driver.get("http://www.google.com");

I didn't try this since I don't have WebDriver setup at home, but this should allow you to specify a profile.

Solution 3:

I downloaded TorBrowser and I was able to call it without any problem, with the following code (it's Mac OS). So I think there shouldn't be any problem about compatibility between the firefox webdriver and the latest version of Tor Browser.

String torPath = "/Volumes/DATA/Downloads/Tor.app/Contents/MacOS/TorBrowser.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox";
String profilePath = "/Users/mimitantono/Library/Application Support/Firefox/Profiles/1vps9kas.default-1384778906995";
FirefoxProfile profile = new FirefoxProfile(new File(profilePath));
FirefoxBinary binary = new FirefoxBinary(new File(torPath));
FirefoxDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver(binary, profile);
driver.get("http://www.google.com/webhp?complete=1&hl=en");

I know that you already tested the path of your profile with binary.startProfile but I think you could try again to use slash instead of backslash to specify the path, cross check whether that file exists -> profile.default, and to use absolute path instead of relative -> ../.

Solution 4:

This code also is working pretty good in ubuntu. Here is an example (JUnit4):

package qa2all;

import java.io.File;
import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;

import org.junit.After;
import org.junit.Before;
import org.junit.Test;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxBinary;
import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxProfile;


public class HTMLUnit {
    private WebDriver driver;
    private String baseUrl;
    private StringBuffer verificationErrors = new StringBuffer();

    @Before
    public void setUp() throws Exception {
        //driver = new HtmlUnitDriver();    
        //driver = new FirefoxDriver();
        String torPath = "/home/user/Dropbox/Data/TorBrowser/Linux/32/start-tor-browser";
        String profilePath = "/home/user/Dropbox/Data/TorBrowser/Linux/32/TorBrowser/Data/Browser/profile.default/";
        FirefoxProfile profile = new FirefoxProfile(new File(profilePath));
        FirefoxBinary binary = new FirefoxBinary(new File(torPath));
        driver = new FirefoxDriver(binary, profile);        
        baseUrl = "https://qa2all.wordpress.com";
        driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(30, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
    }

    @Test
    public void testUntitled() throws Exception {
        driver.get(baseUrl + "/");

    }

    @After
    public void tearDown() throws Exception {
        driver.quit();
        String verificationErrorString = verificationErrors.toString();
        if (!"".equals(verificationErrorString)) {
            fail(verificationErrorString);
        }
    }

    private void fail(String verificationErrorString) {
        // TODO Auto-generated method stub

    }
}