How to wait until connected to the tor network with selenium?

Question

Following the guide Scraping Websites with Python, Selenium, and Tor I don't know how could I wait only until the tor browser is connected instead of waiting a fixed amount of time. Something like what there is in the comment below, which isn't working right now. The torStatus is just an example with doesn't really exist. I'm looking for an actual way to tell when it is connected.

def connect_tor() -> None:
    driver.find_element(By.XPATH, '//*[@id="connectButton"]').click()
    #while driver.find_element(By.XPATH, '//*[@id="torStatus"]').get_attribute("value") != "connected":
        #time.sleep(1)
    time.sleep(20)

Answer 1

It was easier than I expected:

while driver.find_element(By.XPATH, '//*[@id="connectLongContent"]').is_displayed():
    time.sleep(1)

There is also the tor-browser-selenium library to consider.

Answer 2

I don't think it's possible to check when the Tor Browser (Firefox) has established a connection with an Entry Relay. What you can do however is load a page and wait until a certain condition is met. If the page loaded, you know you are connected. This functionality is called "Explicit Wait" in Selenium.

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC

driver.get("https://check.torproject.org")
try:
    element = WebDriverWait(driver, 500).until(
        EC.presence_of_element_located((By.ID, "element-id"))
    )
finally:
    driver.quit()

Answer 3

If you configure tor browser to connect automatically at startup, you do not need to .click() the connect button. Start the browser and wait until the homepage is loaded.