anonymous url navigation in command line?

One method of annoymizing HTTP traffic from the command line is to use tor. This article discusses the method, titled: How to anonymize the programs from your terminal with torify.

General steps from article

1. You can install the tor package as follows:

   Fedora/CentOS/RHEL

   $ sudo yum install tor
   

   Ubuntu/Debian

   $ sudo apt-get install tor
   

2. Edit this file /etc/tor/torrc so that the following lines are present and uncommented:

   ControlPort 9051
   CookieAuthentication 0
   

3. Start the tor service

   $ sudo /etc/init.d/tor restart
   

4. Testing setup

   Real IP

   $ curl ifconfig.me 67.253.170.83

   anonymized IP

   $ torify curl ifconfig.me 2>/dev/null 46.165.221.166

   As you can see the ifconfig.me website thinks our IP address is now 46.165.221.166. You can tell tor to start a new session triggering a new IP address for us:

   $ echo -e 'AUTHENTICATE ""\r\nsignal NEWNYM\r\nQUIT' | nc 127.0.0.1 9051
   250 OK
   250 OK
   250 closing connection
   
   $ torify curl ifconfig.me 2>/dev/null
   37.252.121.31
   

   Do it again to get another different IP

   $ echo -e 'AUTHENTICATE ""\r\nsignal NEWNYM\r\nQUIT' | nc 127.0.0.1 9051
   250 OK
   250 OK
   250 closing connection
   
   $ torify curl ifconfig.me 2>/dev/null
   91.219.237.161
   

5. Downloading Pages

   $ torify curl www.google.com 2>/dev/null
   

6. Browsing the internet via elinks

   $ torify elinks www.google.com
   

        

References

• Tor docs
• How to anonymize the programs from your terminal with torify