Node.js Tor client

A simple library for making HTTP requests over the Tor network programmatically in JavaScript.

I do NOT recommend using this library with other runtimes such Deno or Bun. It relies on HTTP Agent and for example Bun is not using HTTP Agent in every context so you can end up with making HTTP request without Tor...

🧅 Features

• Simple codebase
• Own implementation of SOCKS5 protocol
• Built-in HTTP wrapper (but still possible to use with axios)
• Same User-Agent as in Tor Browser by default
• Written in TypeScript
• No external dependencies

Install Tor

This library expects Tor proxy server to be available locally on port 9050 (by default).

Arch/Manjaro/Garuda (Linux)

$ sudo pacman -S tor
$ sudo systemctl enable tor.service
$ sudo systemctl start tor.service

Debian/Ubuntu/Mint (Linux)

$ sudo apt install tor

Code example

const client = new TorClient();
const result = await client.get('https://check.torproject.org/');
// status (number):
console.log(result.status);
// data (string by default):
console.log(result.data);
// headers (object):
console.log(result.headers);

Documentation

Configuration for SOCKS5 proxy

const client = new TorClient({ 
  socksHost: 'localhost' 
  socksPort: 2137,
});

By default client connects with localhost:9050.

Request options

By default request does not have any timeout.

{
  headers: object,
  timeout: number,
}

.torcheck(options?)

Ping https://check.torproject.org/ to check Tor connection status.

const client = new TorClient();
const isUsed = await client.torcheck();
console.log(isUsed); // true or false

.get(url, options?)

Make http GET request (works with regular and .onion sites).

const client = new TorClient();
const url = 'https://duckduckgogg42xjoc72x3sjasowoarfbgcmvfimaftt6twagswzczad.onion/?q=tor';
const result = await client.get(url);
console.log(result.data); // HTML -> string

.post(url, data, options?)

Make http POST request (works with regular and .onion sites).

const client = new TorClient();
const url = 'https://duckduckgogg42xjoc72x3sjasowoarfbgcmvfimaftt6twagswzczad.onion/';
const result = await client.post(url, { q: 'tor' });
console.log(result.data); // HTML -> string

.download(url, options?)

Download response body to file (implementation based on Node.js Streams and works with binaries and text files)

const client = new TorClient();
const resultPath = await client.download('<any-url.png>', {
  filename: 'myfile.png',
  dir: './downloads' // folder must exists!
});

console.log(resultPath); // string

Passing options for requests

You can pass your custom headers and request timeout.

const client = new TorClient();
const result = await client.get('https://www.deviceinfo.me/', {
  headers: {
    'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/95.0.4638.69 Safari/537.36',
  },
  timeout: 20000,
});

console.log(result.data);

By default TorClient uses User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; rv:109.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/115.0 (from Tor Browser - most popular Tor client).

License

Distributed under the MIT License. See LICENSE for more information.