Tools that allow us to search hidden services and automate the crawling process in the Tor network
In this section, you'll learn how to use certain scraping techniques to extract information from the Tor network with Python tools. You'll do this by learning how to use specific Python tools that allow you to extract links with crawling processes.
Scraping information from the Tor network with Python tools
There are different tools aimed at extracting information through the use of scraping techniques. One of them is TorBot, an OSINT tool for the dark web: https://github.com/DedSecInside/TorBot.
TorBot is a script built into Python 3 that allows us to collect open data from the deep web and collect as much information as possible about .onion
domains. It provides a list of features that make it useful for multiple applications, among which we will highlight the following:
- Onion Crawler (
.onion
sites). - Return the title and address of the page, along with...