'tr.reset_identity' does not work. What exactly needs to be configured for it to work?

`from torrequest import TorRequest

with TorRequest(proxy_port=9050, ctrl_port=9051, password=None) as tr:
response = tr.get('http://ipecho.net/plain')
print(response.text) # not your IP address

tr.reset_identity()

response = tr.get('http://ipecho.net/plain')
print(response.text) # another IP address, not yours
input('')`

I'm trying to use this on my Raspberry Pi 3B. Followed instructions in the README and everything works, but it seems it's still using my real IP.

Code:

from torrequest import TorRequest

def main():
  with TorRequest(proxy_port=9050, ctrl_port=9051, password=<password>) as tor_request:
    response = tor_request.get('https://check.torproject.org/')
    print(response.text)

if __name__ == '__main__':
  main()

The response shows "Sorry. You are not using Tor."

The only settings I changed in /etc/tor/torrc was uncomment SocksPort to add my IP address and port 9050. The service status appears to be OK:

$ sudo systemctl status [email protected]
* [email protected] - Anonymizing overlay network for TCP
     Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/[email protected]; enabled-runtime; vendor preset: enabled)
     Active: active (running) since Mon 2023-08-28 16:59:59 PDT; 1min 46s ago
    Process: 6074 ExecStartPre=/usr/bin/install -Z -m 02755 -o debian-tor -g debian-tor -d /run/tor (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
    Process: 6075 ExecStartPre=/usr/bin/tor --defaults-torrc /usr/share/tor/tor-service-defaults-torrc -f /etc/tor/torrc --RunAsDaemon 0 --verify-config (code=exited, statu>
   Main PID: 6076 (tor)
      Tasks: 1 (limit: 1069)
        CPU: 5.856s
     CGroup: /system.slice/system-tor.slice/[email protected]
             `-6076 /usr/bin/tor --defaults-torrc /usr/share/tor/tor-service-defaults-torrc -f /etc/tor/torrc --RunAsDaemon 0

Aug 28 17:00:00 pi Tor[6076]: Bootstrapped 5% (conn): Connecting to a relay
Aug 28 17:00:00 pi Tor[6076]: Opening Control listener on /run/tor/control
Aug 28 17:00:00 pi Tor[6076]: Opened Control listener connection (ready) on /run/tor/control
Aug 28 17:00:00 pi Tor[6076]: Bootstrapped 10% (conn_done): Connected to a relay
Aug 28 17:00:00 pi Tor[6076]: Bootstrapped 14% (handshake): Handshaking with a relay
Aug 28 17:00:01 pi Tor[6076]: Bootstrapped 15% (handshake_done): Handshake with a relay done
Aug 28 17:00:01 pi Tor[6076]: Bootstrapped 75% (enough_dirinfo): Loaded enough directory info to build circuits
Aug 28 17:00:01 pi Tor[6076]: Bootstrapped 90% (ap_handshake_done): Handshake finished with a relay to build circuits
Aug 28 17:00:01 pi Tor[6076]: Bootstrapped 95% (circuit_create): Establishing a Tor circuit
Aug 28 17:00:03 pi Tor[6076]: Bootstrapped 100% (done): Done

When I run

from torrequest import TorRequest


with TorRequest() as tr:
    response = tr.get('http://ipecho.net/plain')
    print ("My Original IP Address:",response.text)

    tr.reset_identity() #Reset Tor
    response= tr.get('http://ipecho.net/plain')
    print ("New Ip Address",response.text)


with TorRequest() as tr:
    tr.reset_identity() #Reset Tor
    response = tr.get('http://ipecho.net/plain')
    print ("New Ip Address",response.text)

I get the following error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "main.py", line 13, in <module>
    with TorRequest() as tr:
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/torrequest.py", line 24, in __init__
    self.ctrl.authenticate(password=password)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/stem/control.py", line 1100, in authenticate
    stem.connection.authenticate(self, *args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/stem/connection.py", line 534, in authenticate
    raise AuthenticationFailure('socket connection failed (%s)' % exc)
stem.connection.AuthenticationFailure: socket connection failed ([Errno 111] Connection Refused)

This is similar if I call it twice in any way, such as a while loop, for a for loop (my intent is to repeat the tor request process an infinite amount of times, while resetting the ip). How do I fix this?

from torrequest import TorRequest

with TorRequest() as tr:
response = tr.get('http://ipecho.net/plain')
print(response.text)

Traceback (most recent call last):

File "", line 4, in
with TorRequest() as tr:

File "C:\Users\anike\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\torrequest.py", line 21, in init
self._tor_proc = self._launch_tor()

File "C:\Users\anike\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\torrequest.py", line 46, in _launch_tor
take_ownership=True)

File "C:\Users\anike\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\stem\process.py", line 285, in launch_tor_with_config
return launch_tor(tor_cmd, args, torrc_path, completion_percent, init_msg_handler, timeout, take_ownership)

File "C:\Users\anike\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\stem\process.py", line 98, in launch_tor
raise OSError("'%s' isn't available on your system. Maybe it's not in your PATH?" % tor_cmd)

OSError: 'tor' isn't available on your system. Maybe it's not in your PATH?

data={'foo': 'bar'}, auth=('user', 'pass'))'

Should be:

data={'foo': 'bar'}, auth=('user', 'pass'))

In torrequest==0.1.0 that's on PyPi, there's a bug that is fixed in the branch.
The key value in the proxy dictionary has a colon for https.
The key should be "https", but instead is currently is "https:"
Would you be able to release it to PyPi?

Every n requests I get Process terminated: Failed to bind one of the listener ports. - what can I do?

tr.reset_identity() does not seem to work properly. I'm using python 3.6 and Tor version 0.2.7.6 (git-605ae665009853bd).

Are there any additional settings that I may have to change in the Tor config or something? If so then that should be added to the readme

Environment

OS: linux x86_64
Python: 3.9.4
OpenSSL: 1.1.1k

Python deps:

urllib3==1.26.4 
requests==2.25.1
torrequest==0.1.0 # (installed from pip)

Behavior

With plain (not https) connections:

>>> import requests
>>> import torrequest
>>> requests.get('http://ipecho.net/plain').text
192.0.2.102 # My real IP
>>> tr = torrequest.TorRequest()
>>> tr.get('http://ipecho.net/plain').text
203.0.113.75 # Someone else IP

With ssl connections

>>> import requests
>>> import torrequest
>>> requests.get('http://ipecho.net/plain').text
192.0.2.102 # My real IP
>>> tr = torrequest.TorRequest()
>>> tr.get('http://ipecho.net/plain').text
192.0.2.102 # My real IP!!!

Here's the output

Collecting torrequests
Using cached https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/b1/58/b736a9ba42381287dddda3c792985e0fb6020b7e26b69e96c17c100a35de/torrequests-1.1.10.zip
Collecting requests==2.13.0 (from torrequests)
Using cached https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/7e/ac/a80ed043485a3764053f59ca92f809cc8a18344692817152b0e8bd3ca891/requests-2.13.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl
Collecting requesocks==0.10.8 (from torrequests)
Using cached https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/2b/33/0ecebf3903181cd74d9ff885da4029f59e5f61c99dc66f39c5a170a66d27/requesocks-0.10.8.tar.gz
ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1:
command: 'C:\Users\mumer\Anaconda3\python.exe' -c 'import sys, setuptools, tokenize; sys.argv[0] = '"'"'C:\Users\mumer\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-install-gunnbal3\requesocks\setup.py'"'"'; file='"'"'C:\Users\mumer\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-install-gunnbal3\requesocks\setup.py'"'"';f=getattr(tokenize, '"'"'open'"'"', open)(file);code=f.read().replace('"'"'\r\n'"'"', '"'"'\n'"'"');f.close();exec(compile(code, file, '"'"'exec'"'"'))' egg_info --egg-base pip-egg-info
cwd: C:\Users\mumer\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-install-gunnbal3\requesocks
Complete output (17 lines):
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "", line 1, in
File "C:\Users\mumer\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-install-gunnbal3\requesocks\setup.py", line 6, in
import requesocks
File "C:\Users\mumer\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-install-gunnbal3\requesocks\requesocks_init_.py", line 26, in
from .models import Request, Response
File "C:\Users\mumer\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-install-gunnbal3\requesocks\requesocks\models.py", line 18, in
File "C:\Users\mumer\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-install-gunnbal3\requesocks\requesocks\packages_init_.py", line 3, in
from . import urllib3
File "C:\Users\mumer\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-install-gunnbal3\requesocks\requesocks\packages\urllib3_init_.py", line 16, in
from .connectionpool import (
File "C:\Users\mumer\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-install-gunnbal3\requesocks\requesocks\packages\urllib3\connectionpool.py", line 65, in
from .packages import socksipy
File "C:\Users\mumer\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-install-gunnbal3\requesocks\requesocks\packages\urllib3\packages\socksipy_init_.py", line 2, in
import socksipyhandler
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'socksipyhandler'
----------------------------------------
ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1: python setup.py egg_info Check the logs for full command output

Hi,

When I run:

from torrequest import TorRequest
tr=TorRequest(password='')

import requests
response= requests.get('http://ipecho.net/plain')
print ("My Original IP Address:",response.text)

tr.reset_identity() #Reset Tor
response= tr.get('http://ipecho.net/plain')
print ("New Ip Address",response.text)

I only succeed with the tor daemon stopped.

The error occurs when the tor daemon is running.

I ran the tests in a docker container, debian: sid.

I would like to be able to run torrequest with the tor daemon running, could someone help me with this problem?

Thanks!

Hi,

At this point I have tried about 20 different "acclaimed solutions" that all did not work. All on top was torpy, that seems to not be the actual tor but a little toy twin. The issue there was that due to insufficient amount of nodes in the toy twin network I had 99.9% of all times timeouterrors.

I do not know whether your solution works in windows but I am not willing to try it out before confirmation.
Could you please give sufficient details on how to install it on windows, mac, and linux, with as few dependencies as possible?
Imagine you want to explain to anyone's grandma via the internet how to install it, regardless of whether they read it now or in 10 years (which is how old some of the tutorials I searched through had been).

The next thing is then whether I can use it to replace socket.
Consider I have a program in which a client connects to a server via socket with

client_socket = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)
client_socket.connect((ip,port))

in order to send and recv bytes from that server via this socket. But the server shall not get to see the client's IP address or port. Can your package be used to replace those exact two lines suitably? (it does not have to be two lines in the solution.)

I occasionally see this error in my logs even though the request completes:

 INFO - Error while receiving a control message (SocketClosed): received exception "read of closed file"

The calling code looks like this:

  with TorRequest() as tr:
    logger.debug("making request")
    response = tr.get(url)
    logger.debug("got response")
    # error happens here
    ...

1. Is it better to have the tor daemon running rather than having it be invoked by the script?
2. Certainly seems to be a benign issue and I suspect it's happening when the tor session is being torn down. How do I debug this issue or squelch this message?

I'd greatly appreciate any help or pointers! Thanks!

IP doesn't change when url with https. What can I do with this?

With the recent update to python 3.8, the examples on the README no loner work.

pipenv run python --version
Python 3.8.0

pipenv run python TorRequest-example-short.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "TorRequest-example-short.py", line 3, in <module>
    with TorRequest() as tr:
  File "/home/user/.local/share/virtualenvs/gitlab-build-status-iwiHKajp/lib/python3.8/site-packages/torrequest.py", line 24, in __init__
    self.ctrl.authenticate(password=password)
  File "/home/user/.local/share/virtualenvs/gitlab-build-status-iwiHKajp/lib/python3.8/site-packages/stem/control.py", line 1100, in authenticate
    stem.connection.authenticate(self, *args, **kwargs)
  File "/home/user/.local/share/virtualenvs/gitlab-build-status-iwiHKajp/lib/python3.8/site-packages/stem/connection.py", line 592, in authenticate
    controller._post_authentication()
  File "/home/user/.local/share/virtualenvs/gitlab-build-status-iwiHKajp/lib/python3.8/site-packages/stem/control.py", line 3902, in _post_authentication
    owning_pid = self.get_conf('__OwningControllerProcess', None)
  File "/home/user/.local/share/virtualenvs/gitlab-build-status-iwiHKajp/lib/python3.8/site-packages/stem/control.py", line 2170, in get_conf
    entries = self.get_conf_map(param, default, multiple)
  File "/home/user/.local/share/virtualenvs/gitlab-build-status-iwiHKajp/lib/python3.8/site-packages/stem/control.py", line 2273, in get_conf_map
    for key in reply:
RuntimeError: dictionary keys changed during iteration

The longer example has an extra ' at the end of line 17 (look for data and auth). Once the syntax is corrected, here is the same error:

pipenv run python TorRequest-example-long.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "TorRequest-example-long.py", line 9, in <module>
    with TorRequest(proxy_port=9050, ctrl_port=9051, password=None) as tr:
  File "/home/user/.local/share/virtualenvs/gitlab-build-status-iwiHKajp/lib/python3.8/site-packages/torrequest.py", line 24, in __init__
    self.ctrl.authenticate(password=password)
  File "/home/user/.local/share/virtualenvs/gitlab-build-status-iwiHKajp/lib/python3.8/site-packages/stem/control.py", line 1100, in authenticate
    stem.connection.authenticate(self, *args, **kwargs)
  File "/home/user/.local/share/virtualenvs/gitlab-build-status-iwiHKajp/lib/python3.8/site-packages/stem/connection.py", line 592, in authenticate
    controller._post_authentication()
  File "/home/user/.local/share/virtualenvs/gitlab-build-status-iwiHKajp/lib/python3.8/site-packages/stem/control.py", line 3902, in _post_authentication
    owning_pid = self.get_conf('__OwningControllerProcess', None)
  File "/home/user/.local/share/virtualenvs/gitlab-build-status-iwiHKajp/lib/python3.8/site-packages/stem/control.py", line 2170, in get_conf
    entries = self.get_conf_map(param, default, multiple)
  File "/home/user/.local/share/virtualenvs/gitlab-build-status-iwiHKajp/lib/python3.8/site-packages/stem/control.py", line 2273, in get_conf_map
    for key in reply:
RuntimeError: dictionary keys changed during iteration

Hey,

I was looking at the package, and I tried the basic example:

from torrequest import TorRequest

with TorRequest() as tr:
    response = tr.get('http://ipecho.net/plain')
    print(response.text)  # not your IP address

I had a PATH issue but #2 solved that

but now I get this error:
raise OSError('Process terminated: %s' % last_problem)
OSError: Process terminated: Failed to bind one of the listener ports.

What can I do to fix this? I am using windows