How to use Peasant with Tor and Firefox for browsing

0. Requirements

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Before start you should have Tor and Firefox installed on your system.

1. Tor

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Script for lauching multiple Tor instances

#!/bin/bash

# source: http://blog.databigbang.com/distributed-scraping-with-multiple-tor-circuits/

base_socks_port=9050
base_control_port=8118

# Create data directory if it doesn't exist
if [ ! -d "data" ]; then
  mkdir "data"
fi

# 9050-9090, 8118-8158
for i in {0..40}
do
  j=$((i+1))
  socks_port=$((base_socks_port+i))
  control_port=$((base_control_port+i))
  if [ ! -d "data/tor$i" ]; then
    echo "Creating directory data/tor$i"
    mkdir "data/tor$i"
  fi
  # Take into account that authentication for the control port is disabled. Must be used in secure and controlled environments

  echo "Running: tor --RunAsDaemon 1 --CookieAuthentication 0 --HashedControlPassword \"\" --ControlPort $control_port --PidFile tor$i.pid --SocksPort $socks_port --DataDirectory data/tor$i"

  tor --RunAsDaemon 1 --CookieAuthentication 0 --HashedControlPassword "" --ControlPort $control_port --PidFile tor$i.pid --SocksPort $socks_port --DataDirectory data/tor$i
done

2. Peasant

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Lets assume that Peasant installation is succesfully behind us.

Now let's create script that will create single proxy that will handle forwarding to Tor instances

require 'peasant'

nodes = (9050..9090).map { |port| { host: '127.0.0.1', port: port } }
Peasant::Server.run host: '127.0.0.1', port: 9999, nodes: nodes

And run it!

3. Firefox

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Go to Preferences -> Advanced -> Connection -> Settings.

Select manual proxy configurations and put "127.0.0.1" into the SOCKS Host and "9999" into the Port and close it.

Visit http://wtfismyip.com/text and feel free to press CTRL + F5 and you will see that you have a new IP.

So if you are visiting casual site with lot of assets then every single asset is loaded via different Tor connection (different IP).