


The dark web is content not found in search engines that can only be accessed anonymously using special anonymous software networks. The Dark Web actually refers to a set of accessible, although anonymously hosted, websites that exist within the Deep Web. The only difference between the deep web and the surface web is that a thin layer of security stonewalls the public from accessing content on the deep web, whereas anyone can access content on the surface web. The Deep Web is just the content you can’t find on a search engine, like your personal email account, social media accounts, online banking account, a brand’s gated pages, or a corporation’s private database. Let’s give a glance on what it is, and how it works. Once inside, web sites and other services can be accessed through a browser in much the same way as the normal web. The term Dark Web is actually fairly technical in origin, and is often used to describe some of the lesser-known corners of the internet. The Dark Web is classified as a small portion of the Deep Web that has been intentionally hidden and is inaccessible through standard web browsers. Did you know that only about 4% of internet is accessible through search engines like Google, Bing or Yahoo and remaining 96% of web contents only accessible with special tools and software – browsers and other protocol beyond direct links or credentials. As a tech fanatic you will come across a plethora of terminologies, Dark Web will be one such. we have to use Tor for DNS resolution of onion websites (as normal ISP DNS don't provide for the resolution of websites with.we have to configure Jupyter (the Python environment) to use Tor as a socks5 proxy (Tor has to be installed or otherwise accessible).To scrape Onion websites we have to overcome two obstacles: The full source code is available on my GitHub site. As an example scraping the Hidden Wiki and extracting all onion links from its content is given. The following step by step guide is showing a very basic approach on how to scrape onion websites using Python. There are plenty of tutorials on the web on how to use Python and Tor to anonymously scrape the "normal" web, but there is very scarce information about how to scrape onion websites that are native to the Tor / Dark Web environment. Now I have finally found some time to get this going: I wanted to find a way to scrape onion websites using Tor for quite a while already.
