Library/API for tor .onion web calls

Question

Is there any library for making web requests to .onion websites? Without using Tor "Firefox" as for my needs I cant use tor browser.

I did some googling and did not found any solution regarding making simple web request to .onion without using tor browser.

Answer 1

There isn't a library per se, but the way to do this is to start tor and use it as a proxy for your application. On Linux starting TOR without the browser is relativly straightforward. edit:

looks like tor.exe --defaults-torrc [path to torrc] is the way to start it on windows.