How to run the Tor Browser with Selenium?

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I am trying to automate testing of the Tor Browser through Selenium, but as of yet I cannot get it to work. All of my attempts are some sort of variation of the following code:

FirefoxProfile profile = new FirefoxProfile(new File("/Users/MyUsername/Library/Application Support/TorBrowser-Data/Browser/x1v4coki.default"));
profile.setPreference("webdriver.load.strategy", "unstable");
profile.setPreference("network.proxy.type", 1);
profile.setPreference("network.proxy.socks", "127.0.0.1");
profile.setPreference("network.proxy.socks_port", 9150);
FirefoxBinary binary = new FirefoxBinary(new File("/Applications/TorBrowser.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox"));
FirefoxOptions options = new FirefoxOptions();
options.setBinary(binary);
options.setProfile(profile);
FirefoxDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver(options);

When the last line gets executed, the Tor Browser is successfully started. However, the program will hang for a minute or so and ultimately the following exception will be thrown:

Exception in thread "main" org.openqa.selenium.WebDriverException: connection refused
Build info: version: '3.6.0', revision: '6fbf3ec767', time: '2017-09-27T15:28:36.4Z'
System info: host: '...', ip: '...', os.name: 'Mac OS X', os.arch: 'x86_64', os.version: '10.12.6', java.version: '1.8.0_144'
Driver info: driver.version: FirefoxDriver

The same exception is thrown when I omit the profile.setPreference(...) lines. I am using Tor Browser 7.0.8, geckodriver 0.19.0 and Selenium 3.6.

Can someone help me figure out what causes the exception?

Don't use geckodriver with tor as geckodriver is made for newer FF versions & tor is older FF fork. Refer https://stackoverflow.com/questions/39134419/run-tor-browser-with-selenium-webdriver — Mahesh Karia, Nov 01 '17 at 18:31
Thanks for your suggestion, but I need geckodriver to operate the Tor Browser through Selenium. I already encountered the link you mentioned and I tried the same solution. However, I got it to work using geckodriver 0.18.0 instead of 0.19.0. — Gertjan Franken, Nov 03 '17 at 14:19

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 03 '17 at 14:21

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Using geckodriver 0.18.0 instead of 0.19.0 solved my problem.

answered Nov 03 '17 at 14:21

Gertjan Franken

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