ooniprobe is tool for performing internet censorship measurements. Our goal is to achieve a command data format and set of methodologies for conducting censorship related research.
If you are a user interesting in running the ooniprobe command line tool see:
The two main software components of ooniprobe are ooniprobe and oonib.
Is the tool that volunteers and researches interested in contributing data to the project should be running.
ooniprobe allows the user to select what test should be run and what backend should be used for storing the test report and/or assisting them in the running of the test.
ooniprobe tests are divided into two categories: Traffic Manipulation and Content Blocking.
Traffic Manipulation tests aim to detect the presence of some sort of tampering with the internet traffic between the probe and a remote test helper backend. As such they usually require the selection of a oonib backend component for running the test.
Content Blocking are aimed at enumerating the kind of content that is blocked from the probes network point of view. As such they usually require to have specified an input list for running the test.
The source for Content blocking tests and Traffic Manipulation tests can be found in the nettests/blocking and nettests/manipulation directories respectively.
We also have some other tests that are currently not fully supported or still being experimented with.
You can find these in:
Tests that don’t do a measurement but are useful for scanning can be found in:
Tests that involve running third party tools may be found in:
This is the server side component of ooniprobe. It will store that data collected from ooniprobes and it will run a series of Test Helpers that assist Traffic Manipulation Tests in performing their measurements.