• Torpy - a hidden service controller and py module

run torpy from the commandline:

generate a password for accessing tor remotely, and append it to your torrc #+BEGIN_SRC shell % /usr/sbin/tor --hash-password "password" Oct 23 23:39:44.561 [notice] Tor v0.2.3.22-rc (git-4a0c70a817797420) running on Linux. Oct 23 23:39:44.561 [notice] Tor can't help you if you use it wrong! Learn how to be safe at https://www.torproject.org/download/download#warning Oct 23 23:39:44.564 [notice] This version of OpenSSL has a known-good EVP counter-mode implementation. Using it. 16:1387221FFADC246D60BEAA58274647717AA12A2ACE268F7AF0D5BF271A

% sudo printf "\nCookieAuthentication 0\nHashedControlPassword 16:1387221FFADC246D60BEAA58274647717AA12A2ACE268F7AF0D5BF271A\n" >>/etc/tor/torrc #+END_SRC

#+BEGIN_SRC shell git submodule init git submodule update

virtualenv env source env/bin/activate pip install pytorctl/ #note the / at the end!

echo 'passphrase="password"' >config.py #+END_SRC

usage:

#+BEGIN_SRC shell torpy list torpy status torpy start host:port torpy stop " #+END_SRC

or use it from python:

#+BEGIN_SRC python tp=Torpy(passphrase)

list services

tp.list()

check if test_service is running

print "running" if tp.status("test_service") else "not running"

start test_service

tp.start("test_service","localhost:80","80")

check again

print "running" if tp.status("test_service") else "not running"

stop service

tp.stop("test_service")

don't forget to close the control connection

tp.close() #+END_SRC

warning if you start a new onion service using start, the full path must be readable, writable, and executable (o+rwx) by the user running tor.