Port 9050 is not listening

Question

I want to use a tbselenium package for browser automation but however when I try to run the code I get the following error TBDriverPortError: SOCKS port 9050 is not listening.

following is the code snippet that I have used.

import unittest
from time import sleep
from tbselenium.tbdriver import TorBrowserDriver
import tbselenium.common as cm


class TestSite(unittest.TestCase):
    def setUp(self):
        # Point the path to the tor-browser_en-US directory in your system
        tbpath = r'C:\Users\Sachin\Desktop\Tor Browsernew'
        self.driver = TorBrowserDriver(tbpath, tbb_logfile_path='test.log')
        self.url = "https://check.torproject.org"

    def tearDown(self):
        # We want the browser to close at the end of each test.
        self.driver.close()

    def test_available(self):
        self.driver.load_url(self.url)
        # Find the element for success
        element = self.driver.find_element_by_class_name('on')
        self.assertEqual(str.strip(element.text),
                         "Congratulations. This browser is configured to use Tor.")
        sleep(2)  # So that we can see the page


if __name__ == '__main__':
    unittest.main()

can any one help me solve this error have been struggling for days

hi sachin ,port 9050 is Versiera Agent Listener i found on google . Did you try using any other port and find the same issue? — RaHuL, Jan 03 '20 at 05:35
Hi @RaHuL actually I need to specifically use tor browser and it only uses port 9050 so on other ports the browser is opening but not responding — codehacker, Jan 03 '20 at 05:40
Try turn off the firewall and try the same . Sometimes firewall blocks the port . Thanks — RaHuL, Jan 03 '20 at 06:01
@sachinsafale Does [this](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/53942553/how-to-connect-to-tor-browser-using-python/53942783#53942783) or [this](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/53942553/how-to-connect-to-tor-browser-using-python/53942783#53942783) discussion helps you? — undetected Selenium, Jan 03 '20 at 07:15
@DebanjanB that is something works comfortably fine but I want to use the tbselenium driver any help on this — codehacker, Jan 03 '20 at 08:09
@sachinsafale Can you point me to any documentation of **tbselenium**? — undetected Selenium, Jan 03 '20 at 08:11
@DebanjanB these might help https://pypi.org/project/tbselenium and https://github.com/webfp/tor-browser-selenium/tree/master/tbselenium — codehacker, Jan 03 '20 at 08:16
Tor Browser uses port 9150, try that or look at `netstat -anop` to see what's listening on what ports. — drew010, Jan 07 '20 at 18:57
@sachinsafale Apologies, I din't further investigate this issue involving tor. — undetected Selenium, Jan 17 '20 at 08:43
@sachinsafale Let me see if I can pull out something this weekend then I will publish an answer — undetected Selenium, Jan 17 '20 at 08:45
You need to uncomment **ControlPort**, **HashedControlPassword** and **CookieAuthentication** from **Torrc** file. — Sangram, Jan 21 '20 at 08:38
your torrc file must be content like this https://github.com/torproject/tor/blob/master/src/config/torrc.sample.in or you can manually paste this. which OS you used? — Sangram, Jan 22 '20 at 05:43
@sangram now the tor doe get connected but however, it closes giving the following error ###!!! [Child][MessageChannel::SendAndWait] Error: Channel error: cannot send/recv — codehacker, Jan 22 '20 at 05:51
Let us [continue this discussion in chat](https://chat.stackoverflow.com/rooms/206409/discussion-between-sachin-safale-and-sangram). — codehacker, Jan 22 '20 at 06:51

Sangram · Answer 1 · 2020-01-22T07:16:16.623

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You need to uncomment ControlPort, HashedControlPassword and CookieAuthentication from Torrc file.

you can get torrc from here

then reload tor services.

if you are facing issues post full trackback in your Question

edited Jan 22 '20 at 07:16

answered Jan 22 '20 at 06:38

Sangram

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I am able to connect to tor using ypu method but one issue still persists that i wanted to use the firfox application fromt he tor bundle but this is using normal firfox and due to which i am not able to use the us exit node Though i have mentioned the exit node in torrc – codehacker Jan 22 '20 at 06:55
your solution worked like charm but any help on the country exit nodes – codehacker Jan 22 '20 at 07:12
you can specify exit node from here https://b3rn3d.herokuapp.com/blog/2014/03/05/tor-country-codes – Sangram Jan 22 '20 at 07:14
if you get the solution please click on right tick and up vote for others take help from this question – Sangram Jan 22 '20 at 07:14

Port 9050 is not listening

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