How to make anonymous requests using TorRequests and Python

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Tor is quite useful when you have to use requests without revealing your IP address, especially when you are web scraping. This tutorial will use a wrapper in python that helps you with the same. By scrapehero.com.

The main points in the article:

  • What is TOR?
  • Install TOR
  • Configure TOR
  • What is TorRequest?

TorRequest is a wrapper around requests and stem libraries that allows making requests through TOR. You can install torrequest via PyPI. Good read!

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