Tor authentication

[DaveyHeisen]

Hi,

Thanks for getting back to me, I have now managed to get the application running using the docker-compose.debug docker files and starting the container with the CLI parameter.

However, I have read the documentation and cannot find anything about the TOR authentication it is asking for.
Is there any documentation available, or can you help me on this one?

Thanks!

[JarryShaw]

The TOR_PASS environment variable is for configuring the Tor authentication required by Tor Controller instance, which is used to manipulate Tor configuration and behaviour at runtime dynamically in a programming way.

Currently, darc uses Tor Controller to renew its Tor relay at the end of each processing round, as such to avoid back tracing through network activity.

For more information about Tor Controller, please refer to documentations of Tor and stem, the Python library for managing Tor applications.

[DaveyHeisen]

Okay, I have build the Docker image using the docker-compose.debug files, I then run the image using the following command:
docker run -i jsnbzh/darc

It then requires me to fill in the Tor Authentication, when I do so, the container shows the darc --help text and the container closes.

Can you please tell what command I have to run to make it crawl the data from a text file and save the data to SQL database?

[JarryShaw]

Do please refer to the documentation of darc project itself. You can specify the credential for Tor Controller through the TOR_PASS environment variable; it’s value is set in the .torrc configurations.

[DaveyHeisen]

Hi JarryShaw,

Thanks for your help so far. Any clue why the connection is refused on TOR_CTRL port 9051?

crawler | /app/darc/proxy/tor.py:94: TorRenewFailed: [Errno 111] Connection refused
crawler | _TOR_CTRL = stem.control.Controller.from_port(port=int(TOR_CTRL))

Thanks again!

[JarryShaw]

Check if the port is open; if your Tor Controller daemon is up and running; if you are using the right authentication credentials. And if all checked, consult SO or the Tor community instead. Bedankt!