Is there a Tor-Browser in text mode?

4 points by aurelien 1 year ago | 3 comments

Is there a way to use Tor-browser in text mode or the web browser in text mode like w3m / elinks to scroll onion tor?

Fire up the Tor [0] and Privoxy [1] daemons then set variables these vary by text browser to use the Privoxy proxy with your text browser. links, lynx, w3m, etc... The variables are usually http_proxy, ftp_proxy, etc... and specifically also PROTOCOL_proxy for lynx but I would read the man page for whichever you end up using. curl can use variables or the --proxy flag. Privoxy acts as a regular proxy and talks to Tor on the socks port. There are other ways to accomplish this as well.

Another method is to use Squid chained to Privoxy to get caching and find grained controls over URI, Method, File Type, Client / Server Headers and other ACL's. Newer major versions of Squid 6 can talk directly to SOCKS but most distros still have 3 in their repositories probably due to the configuration directives changing so dramatically between 3 and 6.

[0] - https://dist.torproject.org/?C=M;O=D

[1] - https://www.privoxy.org/

aurelien 1 year ago | |

Thanks a lot!!

LinuxBender 1 year ago | | |

No problem. I forgot to mention you can also use torsocks or proxychains-ng to wrap your text browser just in case it might leak something outside of Tor. This avoids having to use Privoxy and just uses the Tor daemon alone. Those are useful if the application being used is other than HTTP, such as SSH, IRC, WebRTC, etc...

    torsocks curl https://www.whatsmyip.org/more-info-about-you/

    proxychains curl https://www.whatsmyip.org/more-info-about-you/