有没有办法通过Linux中的Python启用tor作为系统代理设置

Question

I am working on a project which requires accessing some websites with and without tor enabled, and record the content differences. I am working on deepin (which is a linux based debian distro), and using Python 2.7 to accomplish the task. The problem is that I have to manually enable/disable tor, and change the system proxy settings every time I run the script. Now, I am aware that I can issue a shell command from Python itself to enable tor (service tor start), but I cannot figure out how to enable/disable the system proxy settings from Python.

I have already tried this , but no luck.

Answer 1

Use os.system to set the desired proxy like this.

import os
os.system("export http_proxy="http://username:Password@Proxy_IP:Port/")

To unset, simply use

os.system("unset http_proxy")

EDIT

Tor uses SOCKS proxy. For socks proxy, use

os.system("export socks_proxy="socks://username:Password@Proxy_IP:Port/")

Answer 2

Got the thing working, posting here in case someone else has the same problem:

from selenium import webdriver
import stem.process
from stem import Signal
from stem.control import Controller
from splinter import Browser
proxyIP = "127.0.0.1"
proxyPort = 9050
proxy_settings = {"network.proxy.type":0,
    "network.proxy.socks": proxyIP,
    "network.proxy.socks_port": proxyPort
}
browser = Browser('firefox', profile_preferences=proxy_settings)
driver = browser.driver
driver.get('https://whatismyip.com')

changing network.proxy.type to 1 resets the proxy settings. Solution found here