Hi all. After months of work I’m please to announce the release of Stem 1.2.0!
For those who aren’t familiar with it, Stem is a Python library for interacting with Tor. With it you can script against your relay, descriptor data, or even write applications similar to arm and Vidalia.
https://stem.torproject.org/
So what’s new in this release?
Interactive Tor Interpreter
The control interpreter is a new method for interacting with Tor’s control interface that combines an interactive python interpreter with raw access similar to telnet. This adds several usability features, such as…
- Irc-style commands like ‘/help’.
- Tab completion for Tor’s controller commands.
- History scrollback by pressing up/down.
- Transparently handles Tor authentication at startup.
- Colorized output for improved readability.
For a tutorial to get you started see…
New connect() Function
This release of Stem provides a new, even easier method for establishing controllers. Connecting to Tor can now be as easy as…
import sys
from stem.connection import connect
if __name__ == '__main__':
controller = connect()
if not controller:
sys.exit(1) # unable to get a connection
print 'Tor is running version %s' % controller.get_version()
controller.close()
For a rundown on the myriad of improvements and fixes in this release see our change log.