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Tor Metrics (Onionoo and CollecTor)

Onionoo serves summary, details, bandwidth, weights, clients and uptime documents for relays and bridges; "By default, all relays and bridges are included that have been running in the past week." CollecTor carries relay server descriptors, extra-info descriptors, network status consensuses and votes, microdescriptors, bridge descriptors and other document types: "recent descriptors that were published in the last 72 hours are available as plain text, and archived descriptors covering many years of Tor network history are available as compressed tarballs". Records describe relays and bridges, including the IP addresses, nicknames and contact strings their operators publish to the public Tor directory.

Open metrics.torproject.org
Signal Scoredraft model
95
Access
No key · none
20
Licence clarity
CC0-1.0 · terms linked
20
Evidence
4 source links checked
18
Freshness
verified 2026-11-09
20
Documentation
docs · limits · coverage · attribution
17

// Terms and limits

Access
none
Free tier
Free, no key. Onionoo asks clients to request gzip and to use conditional requests; CollecTor publishes recent descriptors as plain text for the last 72 hours and older ones as compressed tarballs.
Rate limits
Not stated. Onionoo's client rules ask for an "Accept-Encoding: gzip" header and for "Last-Modified"/"If-Modified-Since" conditional requests instead of giving a numeric limit.
Licence
CC0-1.0terms
Licence note
The Tor Metrics footer licenses the data and the site's graphs differently: "Data on this site is freely available under a CC0 no copyright declaration: To the extent possible under law, the Tor Project has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights in the data. Graphs are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 United States License." CC0-1.0 here covers the data served by Onionoo and CollecTor; the rendered graphs on metrics.torproject.org are CC BY 3.0 US and attribution applies to those.
Attribution
Not required for the data (CC0). Attribution is required for the site's graphs, which are under CC BY 3.0 US.

// Evidence · verified 2026-11-09

  1. 01metrics.torproject.org/
  2. 02metrics.torproject.org/onionoo.html
  3. 03metrics.torproject.org/collector.html
  4. 04onionoo.torproject.org/summary?limit=1

// Good for

cyber-threatnetwork-dataapihistorical-dataopen-data

// The same record, for agents

Request · get_entry
{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 1,
  "method": "tools/call",
  "params": {
    "name": "get_entry",
    "arguments": {
      "slug": "tor-metrics-onionoo-collector"
    }
  }
}
Reply · selected fields
{
  "name": "Tor Metrics (Onionoo and CollecTor)",
  "slug": "tor-metrics-onionoo-collector",
  "domain": "Cyber Threat",
  "type": "Dataset",
  "badge": "Free",
  "auth": "none",
  "rateLimits": "Not stated. Onionoo's client rules ask for an \"Accept-Encoding: gzip\" header and for \"Last-Modified\"/\"If-Modified-Since\" conditional requests instead of giving a numeric limit.",
  "license": "CC0-1.0",
  "licenseUrl": "https://metrics.torproject.org/",
  "lastVerified": "2026-11-09",
  "evidenceUrls": [
    "https://metrics.torproject.org/",
    "https://metrics.torproject.org/onionoo.html",
    "https://metrics.torproject.org/collector.html",
    "https://onionoo.torproject.org/summary?limit=1"
  ],
  "tasks": [
    "cyber-threat",
    "network-data",
    "api",
    "historical-data",
    "open-data"
  ],
  "providerUrl": "https://metrics.torproject.org/"
}

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