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Torousel
Rotating Tor proxy - 500 exit IPs, single light container
A lightweight Docker image that provides a single HTTP proxy endpoint backed by many Tor exit IPs, designed for web crawling and scraping. A single Tor process handles all circuits using SOCKS5 authentication-based isolation (IsolateSOCKSAuth). A Go-based HTTP proxy sits in front, round-robin routing each request through a different circuit credential - no HAProxy, no Privoxy, no per-instance processes.
Hey Product Hunt
I'm excited to launch Torousel a lightweight rotating Tor proxy designed for web crawling, scraping, and privacy-focused networking.
Most rotating Tor proxy solutions work by spawning hundreds of Tor instances, often combined with HAProxy and Privoxy. That approach works, but it's heavy, resource-intensive, and difficult to scale.
Torousel takes a different approach:
- One lightweight container
- One Tor process (using Arti, the Rust implementation of Tor)
- Hundreds of isolated circuits using SOCKS authentication isolation
- A Go-based HTTP proxy that automatically rotates requests across circuits
- No HAProxy, no Privoxy, no managing hundreds of processes
In practice, this means you can get access to hundreds of rotating exit IPs while using a fraction of the memory and CPU that traditional approaches require.
Some highlights:
• Up to 500 virtual Tor circuits from a single container
• Multi-architecture support (amd64 + arm64)
• Docker-first deployment
• Built with Go + Rust (Arti)
• Open source and MIT licensed
I originally built Torousel because existing rotating Tor proxy solutions felt unnecessarily complex for modern scraping and crawling workloads. The goal was simple: make Tor-based IP rotation lightweight, scalable, and easy to deploy.
I'd love feedback from anyone working on web crawling, scraping infrastructure, privacy tooling, or distributed systems. Happy to answer any technical questions about the architecture, benchmarks, or implementation details.
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About Torousel on Product Hunt
“Rotating Tor proxy - 500 exit IPs, single light container”
Torousel was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 4 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #69 on the daily leaderboard. A lightweight Docker image that provides a single HTTP proxy endpoint backed by many Tor exit IPs, designed for web crawling and scraping. A single Tor process handles all circuits using SOCKS5 authentication-based isolation (IsolateSOCKSAuth). A Go-based HTTP proxy sits in front, round-robin routing each request through a different circuit credential - no HAProxy, no Privoxy, no per-instance processes.
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