khpeek/privoxy-tor-scraper

Foundations of a multi-container Docker application which uses Privoxy and Tor to scrape websites anonymously

privoxy-tor-scraper's Issues

How to resolve the error "ConnectionRefusedError: [Errno 111] Connection refused"

The docker-compose build builds successfully, but if I try docker-compose up, I get the following error message:

scraper_1_651fd6690a2d | Traceback (most recent call last):
scraper_1_651fd6690a2d |   File "newnym.py", line 45, in <module>
scraper_1_651fd6690a2d |     request_ip_change()
scraper_1_651fd6690a2d |   File "newnym.py", line 27, in request_ip_change
scraper_1_651fd6690a2d |     tn = telnetlib.Telnet('tor',9051)
scraper_1_651fd6690a2d |   File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/telnetlib.py", line 218, in __init__
scraper_1_651fd6690a2d |     self.open(host, port, timeout)
scraper_1_651fd6690a2d |   File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/telnetlib.py", line 234, in open
scraper_1_651fd6690a2d |     self.sock = socket.create_connection((host, port), timeout)
scraper_1_651fd6690a2d |   File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/socket.py", line 724, in create_connection
scraper_1_651fd6690a2d |     raise err
scraper_1_651fd6690a2d |   File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/socket.py", line 713, in create_connection
scraper_1_651fd6690a2d |     sock.connect(sa)
scraper_1_651fd6690a2d | ConnectionRefusedError: [Errno 111] Connection refused
privoxy-tor-scraper_scraper_1_651fd6690a2d exited with code 1