Tor_internal keeps getting timed out. Am I implementing it incorrectly?

[armandoanzellini]

Hi all, I have some code trying to use Tor_internal as my proxy. I've implemented it as below:

pg = ProxyGenerator()

tor_loc = 'C:\\directory to tor exe'

pg.Tor_Internal(tor_cmd = tor_loc)

scholarly.use_proxy(pg)

But whenever I run that, Tor opens a browser with two open tabs: https://__reloadtorrconsighup/ and https://0.0.0.0/

However, I click "try again" and it just repeats the same error. When I close the browser I get the following Traceback:

Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "<ipython-input-5-6f6a617ff629>", line 5, in <module>
    pg.Tor_Internal(tor_cmd = tor_loc)

  File "C:\Users\Armando\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\scholarly\_proxy_generator.py", line 249, in Tor_Internal
    self._tor_process = stem.process.launch_tor_with_config(

  File "C:\Users\Armando\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\stem\process.py", line 296, in launch_tor_with_config
    return launch_tor(tor_cmd, args, torrc_path, completion_percent, init_msg_handler, timeout, take_ownership)

  File "C:\Users\Armando\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\stem\process.py", line 158, in launch_tor
    raise OSError('Process terminated: %s' % last_problem)

 OSError: Process terminated: Timed out.

Can someone help? What am I missing?

Thanks in advance!

[ipeirotis]

Seems to be an issue with your Tor installation. You need to give permissions to Tor to write to your filesystem, especially the location where the torrc is stored

[armandoanzellini]

After messing around with it, I figured out it was two problems. The first was the permissions, as ipeirotis mentioned, but the second was that I had implemented it incorrectly. I was pointing to the firefox.exe file not the tor.exe file. My bad, but now fixed.