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.
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