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Is there a CLI Tor HTTP client, like curl/wget but routed over the Tor network?

I want to make HTTP requests over Tor. Tor Browser is too heavy for my needs; I don't need to browse websites, I just need to make HTTP requests. I also don't want to route my entire computer's traffic over Tor. I ideally just want to be able to run a single command when I need to, that will function like curl/wget/a CLI HTTP client, except just routed over Tor (and can access onionsites as some of the services I need to make requests to are onionsites).

Does such a tool exist? I suppose I could write like a Python script for it or something but if something already exists I'll just use that.

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Penta
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Penta
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You can use curl itself, just set a SOCKS5 proxy with --socks5. Simply point it to the address of a running tor instance. So on arch linux for example, install the tor package, start the systemd service and use localhost:9050 as the proxy.
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Mark
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Just use curl and wget with the torsocks wrapper.

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trevor (he/they)
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oniux might be exactly what you're looking for.

It was still in early development when I played with it months ago, so I'm not sure if it's ready for daily usage, but it's from the Tor Project team themselves, so I imagine it will only keep getting better.


Introducing oniux: Kernel-level Tor isolation for any Linux app | Tor Project

Introducing oniux: Kernel-level Tor isolation for any Linux app. This torsocks alternative uses namespaces to isolate Linux applications over the Tor network and eliminate data leaks.
blog.torproject.org
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tvcvt
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tvcvt
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It’s not exactly a single tool, but torsocks kind of enables doing what you’re describing. The syntax would be something like torsocks curl $url

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medem
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Even command line video downloaders such as yt-dlp & co. have an option for proxying the request over SOCKS, and the Tor daemon provides one. IIRC you'd do something like $command --proxy socks5://127.0.0.1:9050 $url.
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Spooky Mulder
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Tor comes packaged with torify which you can prefix any CLI command with to have it route through Tor and resolve onion sites properly.
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thingsiplay
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I never knew about these CLI tools being packaged with Tor. After some research, torify nowadays is a wrapper around torsocks and one should use torsocks directly instead. I even found an 8 year old post citing the man page:

man torify:

"It is provided for backward compatibility; instead you should use torsocks."
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N.E.P.T.R
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Officially from the Tor Project there is also oniux. From the blog, "a small command-line utility providing Tor network isolation for third-party applications using Linux namespaces".

Introducing oniux: Kernel-level Tor isolation for any Linux app | Tor Project

Introducing oniux: Kernel-level Tor isolation for any Linux app. This torsocks alternative uses namespaces to isolate Linux applications over the Tor network and eliminate data leaks.
blog.torproject.org
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