tor vs stem

tor

unofficial git repo -- report bugs/issues/pull requests on https://gitlab.torproject.org/ -- (by torproject)

C Tor Rust rust-lang

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gitweb.torproject.org

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stem

Python controller library for Tor (by torproject)

Python Tor

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tor		stem
	Project
21	Mentions	3
4,309	Stars	249
1.3%	Growth	1.2%
6.0	Activity	7.6
about 2 months ago	Latest Commit	3 months ago
C	Language	Python
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later	License	GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 only

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Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

tor

Posts with mentions or reviews of tor. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-02-27.

L’intelligence artificielle est une chenille qui peut devenir un tyrannosaure
1 project | /r/Quebec | 24 May 2023

Tor est opensource, le department américain peut aller se torcher. (No pun intended)
Tor browser launch - error 404
2 projects | /r/TOR | 27 Feb 2023

They have an official GitLab repo ( https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser ) and their older gitolite one ( https://gitweb.torproject.org ) which is allegedly being phased out / not updated.
How do I turn my raspberry pi into a Tor router that supports moat?
1 project | /r/TOR | 6 Nov 2022

The article is before "BridgeDistribution" property was added to torrc, you can find an example here: https://github.com/torproject/tor/blob/main/src/config/torrc.sample.in
question for this retard
1 project | /r/onions | 11 Oct 2022
can i use snowflake bridge on tor (the expert bundle, not the browser) ?
1 project | /r/TOR | 3 Oct 2022
Est-ce que les VPN ont une utilité en dehors de regarder des trucs pas dispos en France ?
1 project | /r/france | 10 Aug 2022
They do be glowing HARD
2 projects | /r/linuxmemes | 30 Jul 2022

well, since we're spreading FUD on fully foss projects (selinux github, torpoject github)...
You got played
2 projects | /r/linuxmasterrace | 30 Jul 2022

torpoject github
Books/Papers that go in depth into the technicalities behind the Tor-network?
1 project | /r/TOR | 23 May 2022
Can my isp see what websites i go on useing tor
1 project | /r/TOR | 5 May 2022

stem

Posts with mentions or reviews of stem. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-04-03.

Can Funkwhale be hosted over Tor/I2P?
4 projects | /r/Funkwhale | 3 Apr 2022
Using as tor a library
4 projects | /r/TOR | 24 Mar 2022

stem does something like that, but is that possible in c?
Self Contained Network Recommendation
1 project | /r/privacytoolsIO | 7 Apr 2021

P.S. My app is written in Python and I am using stem library to controll TOR. It would be amazing if the SCN you recommend has such a library for control. If not, no wrries, I can research.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing tor and stem you can also consider the following projects:

proxychains - proxychains - a tool that forces any TCP connection made by any given application to follow through proxy like TOR or any other SOCKS4, SOCKS5 or HTTP(S) proxy. Supported auth-types: "user/pass" for SOCKS4/5, "basic" for HTTP.

torpy - Pure python Tor client implementation

tor-android - Tor binary and library for Android

Tor-Bridges-Collector - Collecting Tor Bridges.

i2p.socket - drop in python socket module that uses i2p

shadow - Shadow is a discrete-event network simulator that directly executes real application code, enabling you to simulate distributed systems with thousands of network-connected processes in realistic and scalable private network experiments using your laptop, desktop, or server running Linux.

go-libtor - Self-contained Tor from Go

torsocks - Library to torify application - NOTE: upstream has been moved to https://gitweb.torproject.org/torsocks.git

OnionShare - Securely and anonymously share files, host websites, and chat with friends using the Tor network

quickjs-rs - Rust wrapper for the quickjs Javascript engine.

txi2p - I2P bindings for Twisted.