: In a technical context, "crawling" refers to automated data collection. You may be seeking to install Tor to anonymize a web crawler.

This command will output a hashed string that you can place in the HashedControlPassword line.

To route scripts or scrapers through Tor, you must install the Tor service (daemon) rather than just the standalone Tor Browser bundle. This allows your local applications to connect directly via a local proxy port (usually SOCKS port 9050). On Linux (Ubuntu/Debian)