Metadata-Version: 1.1
Name: txtorcon
Version: 0.11.0
Summary: Twisted-based Tor controller client, with state-tracking and configuration abstractions.
Home-page: https://github.com/meejah/txtorcon
Author: meejah
Author-email: meejah@meejah.ca
License: MIT
Description: README
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        Documentation at https://txtorcon.readthedocs.org
        
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        quick start
        -----------
        
        For the impatient, there are two quick ways to install this::
        
           $ pip install txtorcon
        
        (Thanks to Lunar^ for all his packaging work) or, if you checked out
        or downloaded the source::
        
           $ python setup.py install
        
        To avoid installing, you can just add the base of the source to your
        PYTHONPATH::
        
           $ export PYTHONPATH=`pwd`:$PYTHONPATH
        
        Then, you will want to explore the examples. Try "python
        examples/stream\_circuit\_logger.py" for instance.
        
        On Debian testing (jessie), or with wheezy-backports you can install
        version 0.8.2::
        
            $ apt-get install python-txtorcon
        
        You may also like `this asciinema demo <http://asciinema.org/a/5654>`_
        for an overview.
        
        Tor configuration
        -----------------
        
        You'll want to have the following options on in your ``torrc``::
        
           CookieAuthentication 1
           CookieAuthFileGroupReadable 1
        
        If you want to use unix sockets to speak to tor::
        
           ControlSocketsGroupWritable 1
           ControlSocket /var/run/tor/control
        
        The defaults used by :meth:`txtorcon.build_local_tor_connection` will
        find a Tor on ``9051`` or ``/var/run/tor/control``
        
        
        overview
        --------
        
        txtorcon is a Twisted-based asynchronous Tor control protocol
        implementation. Twisted is an event-driven networking engine written
        in Python and Tor is an onion-routing network designed to improve
        people's privacy and anonymity on the Internet.
        
        The main abstraction of this library is txtorcon.TorControlProtocol
        which presents an asynchronous API to speak the Tor client protocol in
        Python. txtorcon also provides abstractions to track and get updates
        about Tor's state (txtorcon.TorState) and current configuration
        (including writing it to Tor or disk) in txtorcon.TorConfig, along
        with helpers to asynchronously launch slave instances of Tor including
        Twisted endpoint support.
        
        txtorcon runs all tests cleanly on:
        
        -  Debian "squeeze", "wheezy" and "jessie"
        -  OS X 10.4 (naif)
        -  OS X 10.8 (lukas lueg)
        -  OS X 10.9 (kurt neufeld)
        -  Fedora 18 (lukas lueg)
        -  FreeBSD 10 (enrique fynn) (**needed to install "lsof"**)
        -  RHEL6
        -  Reports from other OSes appreciated.
        
        If instead you want a synchronous (threaded) Python controller
        library, check out Stem at https://stem.torproject.org/
        
        quick implementation overview
        -----------------------------
        
        txtorcon provides a class to track Tor's current state -- such as
        details about routers, circuits and streams -- called
        txtorcon.TorState and an abstraction to the configuration values via
        txtorcon.TorConfig which provides attribute-style accessors to Tor's
        state (including making changes). txtorcon.TorState provides
        txtorcon.Router, txtorcon.Circuit and txtorcon.Stream objects which
        implement a listener interface so client code may receive updates (in
        real time) including Tor events.
        
        txtorcon uses **trial for unit-tests** and has 96% test-coverage --
        which is not to say I've covered all the cases, but nearly all of the
        code is at least exercised somehow by the unit tests.
        
        Tor itself is not required to be running for any of the tests. There are
        no integration tests. ohcount claims around 2000 lines of code for the
        core bit; around 4000 including tests. About 37% comments in the
        not-test code.
        
        dependencies / requirements
        ---------------------------
        
        - `twisted <http://twistedmatrix.com>`_: txtorcon should work with any
           Twisted 11.1.0 or newer. I am working against Twisted 13.2.0 on
           Debian with Python 2.7.6. Twisted 12 works fine as well. Twisted
           does not yet support Python 3.
        
        -  `GeoIP <https://www.maxmind.com/app/python>`_: **optional** provides location
           information for ip addresses; you will want to download GeoLite City
           from `MaxMind <https://www.maxmind.com/app/geolitecity>`_ or pay them
           for more accuracy. Or use tor-geoip, which makes this sort-of
           optional, in that we'll query Tor for the IP if the GeoIP database
           doesn't have an answer. It also does ASN lookups if you installed that MaxMind database.
        
        -  `python-ipaddr <http://code.google.com/p/ipaddr-py/>`_: **optional**.
           Google's IP address manipulation code.
        
        -  development: `Sphinx <http://sphinx.pocoo.org/>`_ if you want to build the
           documentation. In that case you'll also need something called
           ``python-repoze.sphinx.autointerface`` (at least in Debian) to build
           the Interface-derived docs properly.
        
        -  development: `coverage <http://nedbatchelder.com/code/coverage/>`_ to
           run the code-coverage metrics
        
        -  optional: GraphViz is used in the tests (and to generate state-machine
           diagrams, if you like) but those tests are skipped if "dot" isn't
           in your path
        
        In any case, on a `Debian <http://www.debian.org/>`_ wheezy, squeeze or
        Ubuntu system, this should work::
        
            apt-get install python-setuptools python-twisted python-ipaddr python-geoip graphviz
            apt-get install python-sphinx python-repoze.sphinx.autointerface python-coverage # for develoment
        
        Using pip this would be::
        
            pip install Twisted ipaddr pygeoip
            pip install GeoIP Sphinx repoze.sphinx.autointerface coverage  # for development
        
        or::
        
            pip install -r requirements.txt
            pip install -r dev-requirements.txt
        
        or for the bare minimum::
        
            pip install Twisted  # will install zope.interface too
        
        documentation
        -------------
        
        It is likely that you will need to read at least some of
        `control-spec.txt <https://gitweb.torproject.org/torspec.git/blob/HEAD:/control-spec.txt>`_
        from the torspec git repository so you know what's being abstracted by
        this library.
        
        Run "make doc" to build the Sphinx documentation locally, or rely on
        ReadTheDocs https://txtorcon.readthedocs.org which builds each tagged
        release and the latest master.
        
        There is also a directory of examples/ scripts, which have inline
        documentation explaining their use. You may also use pydoc::
        
            pydoc txtorcon.TorControlProtocol
            pydoc txtorcon.TorState
            pydoc txtorcon.TorConfig
        
        ...for the main classes. If you're using TorState, you will also be
        interested in the support classes for it::
        
            pydoc txtorcon.Circuit
            pydoc txtorcon.Stream
            pydoc txtorcon.Router
            pydoc txtorcon.AddrMap
        
        There are also Zope interfaces for some things, if you wish to listen
        for events for your own purposes (the best example of the use of these
        being TorState itself)::
        
            txtorcon.ITorControlProtocol
            txtorcon.IStreamAttacher
            txtorcon.ICircuitListener
            txtorcon.IStreamListener
        
        For launching Tor and Twisted integration, you will want to look at::
        
            txtorcon.launch_tor (in torconfig.py)
            txtorcon.TCPHiddenServiceEndpoint (in torconfig.py)
            txtorcon.TorProtocolFactory (in torcontrolprotocol.py)
            txtorcon.build_tor_connection (in torstate.py)
            txtorcon.build_local_tor_connection (in torstate.py)
        
        IStreamAttacher affects Tor's behaviour, allowing one to customize how
        circuits for particular streams are selected. You can build your own
        circuits via ITorControlProtocol.build\_circuit(). There is an example
        of this called custom\_stream\_attacher.py which builds (or uses)
        circuits exiting in the same country as the address to which the
        stream is connecting.
        
        
        contact information
        -------------------
        
        For novelty value, the Web site (with built documentation and so forth)
        can be viewed via Tor at https://timaq4ygg2iegci7.onion although the
        code itself is hosted via git::
        
            torsocks git clone git://timaq4ygg2iegci7.onion/txtorcon.git
        
        or::
        
            git clone git://github.com/meejah/txtorcon.git
        
        You may contact me via ``meejah at meejah dot ca`` with GPG key
        `0xC2602803128069A7
        <http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xC2602803128069A7>`_
        or see ``meejah.asc`` in the repository. The fingerprint is ``9D5A
        2BD5 688E CB88 9DEB CD3F C260 2803 1280 69A7``.
        
        It is often possible to contact me as ``meejah`` in #tor-dev on `OFTC
        <http://www.oftc.net/oftc/>`_ but be patient for replies (I do look at
        scrollback, so putting "meejah: " in front will alert my client).
        
        More conventionally, you may get the code at GitHub and documentation
        via ReadTheDocs:
        
        -  https://github.com/meejah/txtorcon
        -  https://txtorcon.readthedocs.org
        
        Please do **use the GitHub issue-tracker** to report bugs. Patches,
        pull-requests, comments and criticisms are all welcomed and
        appreciated.
        
Keywords: python,twisted,tor,tor controller
Platform: UNKNOWN
Classifier: Framework :: Twisted
Classifier: Development Status :: 4 - Beta
Classifier: Intended Audience :: Developers
Classifier: License :: OSI Approved :: MIT License
Classifier: Natural Language :: English
Classifier: Operating System :: POSIX :: Linux
Classifier: Operating System :: Unix
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 2
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 2.6
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 2.7
Classifier: Topic :: Software Development :: Libraries :: Python Modules
Classifier: Topic :: Internet :: Proxy Servers
Classifier: Topic :: Internet
Classifier: Topic :: Security
Requires: Twisted (>=11.1.0)
Requires: ipaddr (>=2.1.10)
Requires: zope.interface (>=3.6.1)
