I am scraping some websites with curl and I am using Tor to avoid sending too many request with the same ip. The problem is that my app uses threads, so if I send the packet to change identity to the control port on one thread the identity change for all the other threads.

Is there a way I can use multiple identities with Tor?


I'm not entirely sure what you mean by identities, and sending a packet to change it.

Using threads means sharing memory space, so if you want to change a variable in your application only for a specific thread, you need to make a separate variable for your thread, or other identity. Otherwise you could change your application to fork a separate process for each identity you use and achieve a similar effect.


Why not start multiple tor instances and then either connect each thread to a separate tor instance or spawn multiple processes each connected to a separate tor instance.

  • Care to explain this process a little more @HaykoKoryun? – ntk4 Sep 10 '17 at 16:40

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