Rather than going through a large process to reach hidden services without
the Tor bundle, I'd suggest instead using Tor2Web or Onion.to. Tor2Web is
also open-source, but both are fairly reliable.
Example: DuckDuckGo
Tor only: http://3g2upl4pq6kufc4m.onion
http://3g2upl4pq6kufc4m.tor2web.org
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Somebody pointed to me Using Tor as a library
https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2013-March/004564.html.
I am thinking about writing a proxy service to install in your local
machine to be able to access TOR Hidden Services without having