TheDarkSide

Dark web scraper and crawler written in python with highly customizable settings.

Installation

Make sure you have TOR installed and running

sudo apt install tor &&
sudo systemctl start tor

Edit its settings in /etc/tor/torrc and decomment and set the lines:

• ControlPort 9051 (or any other available port)
• CookieAuthentication 0

Create a virtual environment (optional but recommended)

python3 -m venv .venv &&
source .venv/bin/activate

Install dependencies

pip install --upgrade pip &&
pip install -r requirements.txt

Running

python3 TheDarkSide

Use option -h to list all possible arguments.