Showing posts with label web. Show all posts
Showing posts with label web. Show all posts

Sunday, January 15, 2017

A year with Tor

Looking back at 2016

As a follow-up to my previous post (which described how and why I use Tor) let's now take a look back at year 2016 and squeeze out some interesting information out of collected logs.

So that's what this post is about: numbers, used nodes and a map describing my usage of Tor in last 12 months.

Thursday, February 11, 2016

Tor IP changing and web scraping

Anonymous web scraping

Many of us who scrape web pages, be it for fun, data, love or something else, are concerned about anonymity. Well, not anonymity per se, we just don't want our IP blacklisted.

Many of us choose Tor and its network to achieve our goal. In this post I am going to share my experience and observations using Tor + Privoxy for Python driven web scraping.