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Sergio Ivanuzzo
Sergio Ivanuzzo

Reputation: 1922

Python Connect to IRC via tor

Does it possible to connect IRC via tor ?

Below my code for IRC server connection:

    connection = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)
    connection.connect((self.server, self.port))
    connection.send(
        'USER {nickname} {nickname} {nickname} {nickname}\n'.format(nickname=self.nickname).encode('utf-8')
    )
    connection.send('NICK {nickname}\n'.format(nickname=self.nickname).encode('utf-8'))

Upvotes: 0

Views: 601

Answers (1)

Sam Mason
Sam Mason

Reputation: 16184

connecting via SOCKS that Tor exposes is probably the easiest way.

the Python library PySocks works for me, install with the normal:

pip install -U PySocks

then do:

import socks

# assuming your Tor client is using the defaults
socks.set_default_proxy(socks.PROXY_TYPE_SOCKS5, 'localhost', 9150)

you can then make TCP connections as normal using the socks.socksocket class, which will cause the actual connection to go via Tor

import socket

with socks.socksocket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM) as s:
    s.connect(('chat.freenode.net', 6667))
    s.send('USER {0} {0} {0} {0}\r\n'.format(nickname).encode('utf8'))
    s.send('NICK {0}\r\n'.format(nickname).encode('utf8'))
    print(s.recv(4096).decode('utf8'))

Upvotes: 2

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