STEM(1)

✨ NAME ✨

stem — Stem Documentation, bestie 💅

okay so real talk first: Stem is mostly unmaintained. 😭 Not abandoned-abandoned, just... lowkey resting. But you can still absolutely do stuff, and here's exactly what:

• Open issues at https://github.com/torproject/stem/issues 🐛
• Work on an issue and open a pull request at https://github.com/torproject/stem/pulls 🫶
• Contact us (via tor-dev mailing list or gk at torproject dot org) to request a new bugfix release including some patches in the Stem's master branch or pull requests ✨

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

Stem is a Python controller library for Tor. 🧅 With it you can use Tor's control protocol to script against the Tor process, or build things such as Nyx. Stem's latest version is 1.8.1 (released September, 2022). no cap, that's the whole vibe — Python in, Tor out, iconic 🔥

• Contents 📚
• Module Index 🔍
• Search Page 🔎

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

Damian Johnson (atagar@torproject.org) — main character energy, fr fr 💜

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💖 COPYRIGHT 💖

2012, Damian Johnson 🎀

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that's the whole page bestie, go build something cute with it 🌈

— signing off from version 1.8, dated Sep 19, 2025 💅✨