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onionsearch — Scrape URLs on different `.onion` search engines. Note: `onionsearch` requires a Tor proxy running o

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Problem

How to use the onionsearch command: Scrape URLs on different .onion search engines. Note: onionsearch requires a Tor proxy running on localhost:9050; a Tor enabled browser is needed to visit the .onion websites. More information: <https://github.com/megadose/OnionSearch#--usage>.

Solution

onionsearch — Scrape URLs on different .onion search engines. Note: onionsearch requires a Tor proxy running on localhost:9050; a Tor enabled browser is needed to visit the .onion websites. More information: <https://github.com/megadose/OnionSearch#--usage>.

Request results from all the search engines:
onionsearch "{{string}}"


Request search results from specific search engines:
onionsearch "{{string}}" --engines {{tor66|deeplink|phobos|...}}


Exclude certain search engines when searching:
onionsearch "{{string}}" --exclude {{candle|ahmia|...}}


Limit the number of pages to load per engine:
onionsearch "{{stuxnet}}" --engines {{tor66|deeplink|phobos|...}} --limit {{3}}


List all supported search engines:
onionsearch --help | grep {{[-A|--after-context]}} 1 {{[-i|--ignore-case]}} "supported engines"

Code Snippets

Request results from all the search engines

onionsearch "{{string}}"

Request search results from specific search engines

onionsearch "{{string}}" --engines {{tor66|deeplink|phobos|...}}

Exclude certain search engines when searching

onionsearch "{{string}}" --exclude {{candle|ahmia|...}}

Limit the number of pages to load per engine

onionsearch "{{stuxnet}}" --engines {{tor66|deeplink|phobos|...}} --limit {{3}}

List all supported search engines

onionsearch --help | grep {{[-A|--after-context]}} 1 {{[-i|--ignore-case]}} "supported engines"

Context

tldr-pages: common/onionsearch

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