Use Tor to send HTTP requests from multiple IP addresses

requests_via_tor_demo.py

# https://stem.torproject.org/tutorials/to_russia_with_love.html#using-socksipy
# http://segmentfault.com/q/1010000000511783/a-1020000000512182
# https://github.com/kennethreitz/requests/pull/478#issuecomment-24914571

# Python 3
import socket
import time

# pip install requests
import requests

# pip install PySocks
import socks

# pip install stem
import stem.process
from stem import Signal
from stem.control import Controller

NUM_REQUESTS = 100

SocksPort = 9150
ControlPort = 9151

URL_GEO_IP = 'http://www.telize.com/geoip'

DataDirectory = r'C:\Risk\Software\Tor\Browser\TorBrowser\Data\Tor'
GeoIPFile = r'C:\Risk\Software\Tor\Browser\TorBrowser\Data\Tor\geoip'
GeoIPv6File = r'C:\Risk\Software\Tor\Browser\TorBrowser\Data\Tor\geoip6'

# https://www.torproject.org/docs/tor-manual.html.en
# https://stem.torproject.org/_modules/stem/process.html
tor_process = stem.process.launch_tor_with_config(
    config = {
        'DataDirectory': DataDirectory,
        'GeoIPFile': GeoIPFile,
        'GeoIPv6File': GeoIPv6File,
        'AvoidDiskWrites': '1',
        'SocksPort': str(SocksPort),
        'ControlPort': str(ControlPort),
    },
    # Just print the message
    init_msg_handler = print
)

controller = Controller.from_port(port = ControlPort)

socks.set_default_proxy(socks.SOCKS5, '127.0.0.1', SocksPort)

IP = set()
t0 = time.time()

try:
    controller.authenticate()
    # Replace the default socket to one with SOCKS for requests
    socket.socket = socks.socksocket
    for t in range(NUM_REQUESTS):
        r = requests.get(URL_GEO_IP)
        geoip = r.json()
        IP.add(geoip['ip'])
        print('[{}] {} {}, {}, {}'.format(
            t + 1,
            geoip['ip'] if 'ip' in geoip else '(unknown IP)',
            geoip['isp'] if 'isp' in geoip else '(unknown ISP)',
            geoip['city'] if 'city' in geoip else '(unknown city)',
            geoip['country'] if 'country' in geoip else '(unknown country)'
        ))
        # https://stem.torproject.org/api/control.html#stem.Signal
        controller.signal(Signal.HUP)
finally:
    controller.close()
    tor_process.kill()

total_time = time.time() - t0
print('{} requests made from {} distinct IP addresses.'.format(NUM_REQUESTS, len(IP)))
print('Average time for each request: {:g}s.'.format(total_time / NUM_REQUESTS))