Comments on: Making TOR Switch Identities Automatically

By: Janis Elsts

Janis Elsts — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 20:25:06 +0000

I’m afraid not. I did a few quick searches but found nothing suitable. However, it wouldn’t be hard to write a little application that sits in the system tray and switches the identity periodically.

By: Exposed seo

Exposed seo — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 20:08:54 +0000

Janis,

Is there any way to make TOR switch identities by itself, lets say every 5 minutes? I want to try this with some other applications that don’t work as well with TOR as GTrends does. Thanks!

By: Janis Elsts

Janis Elsts — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 18:43:48 +0000

You’re welcome.

As for the suggeestion… number of selected keywords is pretty easy to add, will do. Total searches – probably not.

Length threshold – maybe…

By: vlad

vlad — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 18:26:25 +0000

thanks a lot for that proxy explanation now works like a charm.

+ show status bar info for selected keyword (number selected, total searches)
+ option not to check really long tail keywords (cut by phrase length for example 30 chars)

By: v3ad

v3ad — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 18:11:53 +0000

Yes! thx

By: Janis Elsts

Janis Elsts — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 14:23:35 +0000

The proxy is 127.0.0.1:8118. 127.0.0.1:9051 is the control port used for sending administrative commands to TOR, like “switch to a new identity”.

By: v3ad

v3ad — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 14:18:04 +0000

Privoxy is running. FF3 runs with TOR.
gtrends – Network error.

Set Proxy as
127.0.0.1:9051

By: Janis Elsts

Janis Elsts — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 14:12:06 +0000

Check that Privoxy is running (a blue icon “P” in system tray). Assuming you installed from the torproject.org, open the control panel and click “View Network”; maybe that’ll give you some hints.

By: vlad

vlad — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 13:33:17 +0000

Can’t get TOR to work. Setup everything and get a Network error when trying to connect through it. Any hints?

By: Janis Elsts

Janis Elsts — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 09:02:58 +0000

The reason why you get many keywords with the same results is explained here. If you keep getting forbidden results, you need to use a proxy, like TOR that was mentioned in the post above.