# alecmuffett/real-world-onion-sites

This is a list of substantial, commercial-or-social-good mainstream websites which provide onion services.

Repository: https://github.com/alecmuffett/real-world-onion-sites
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/real-world-onion-sites
Language: Python
License Family: other
Topics: tor, onion-sites, onion-routing
Last push: 2026-08-26T03:41:14+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 77/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 99, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3508, "days_push": 7, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases, no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 2225, forks 191 (observed 2026-08-28T04:06:28.001092+00:00)

## What it is
A curated, auto-generated list of substantial mainstream websites (news, government, social networks, SecureDrop) that offer Tor onion service mirrors. It is maintained as a dataset with automated availability checks and categorized indexes.

## Use cases
- find official onion addresses for mainstream news sites
- look up which governments offer tor mirrors
- discover securedrop whistleblower submission addresses
- find social networks accessible over tor
- verify an onion site is legitimate with proof links
- browse a curated list of onion services without sketchy content

## When to choose
- you need trustworthy .onion addresses for mainstream organizations
- you want a vetted, regularly checked directory of onion services
- you are researching tor adoption by major websites

## When to avoid
- you want a directory of darknet market or anonymous hosting sites
- you need onion sites for small or onion-only projects
- you want a tool to run or host onion services yourself

## Facets
- artifact type: dataset
- maturity: active
- function: search-engine, documentation
- domain: privacy, censorship-circumvention, security, awesome-lists
- platform: cli
- tags: tor, onion-services, curated-list, dark-web-directory, securedrop, web-server

## Member repositories
- alecmuffett/real-world-onion-sites (main) score 77

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:28.001092+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T02:44:55.044138+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/alecmuffett/real-world-onion-sites (fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:28.001092+00:00, sha 49d10ce3ce95)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.