# About us About Tor.Live ## The onion network, peeled layer by layer Tor.Live finds online hidden services, Crawls and indexes them and keep the bad ones out with the power of the community. [Search](/search) [Add site](/sites/create) ### How it works 1. #### We crawl Our crawlers visit onion services day and night, read their pages and follow their links to find new ones. 2. #### We check Probes check every address in a continuous loop and record when it answers. The status you see is measured, not claimed. 3. #### We filter What we crawl is classified. Pages and services that carry illegal material are kept out of search and the directory. 4. #### You decide Ratings, reviews and each site's own forum show you what other people found. ### Features - #### A search engine for the onion network Search crawled pages, listings, forum posts, comments and profiles from one box. - #### Realtime uptime monitoring Every listing shows whether it answers right now and how reliably it has answered over time. - #### Verified addresses Owners sign their addresses with their PGP key and we check every signature, so a Verified badge means the address belongs to the key's holder. - #### Reviews and reputation Members rate and review sites. Votes build each reviewer's karma, so helpful voices count for more. - #### A forum for every site Each listing has its own community space to ask questions, warn others and share news. Owners moderate it, and a public log shows every moderation step. - #### Analytics for owners Owners who claim their listing see visits, search arrivals, traffic sources, backlinks and visitor journeys, and get a live status badge for their own site. - #### Follow what matters Follow sites and members and get notified when something changes. - #### Suggestions for you Pick your interests and your home page suggests sites you have not seen yet. - #### Readable by AI agents Every public page has a plain Markdown version, plus llms.txt and ai.txt, so research tools read us cleanly. ### A quick tour #### Search One box, five kinds of results. #### A listing Status now, its uptime score and its verified addresses. #### Reviews Ratings and votes from members. #### The forum Each site's own conversation. #### Analytics Visits, traffic sources and backlinks for owners. ### Total anonymity and privacy #### We do - work fully in Tor Browser's Safest setting - let you join with no email address (you keep a recovery phrase) - offer two-factor sign-in #### We never - run scripts of our own - load anything from other servers - store visitors' IP addresses (visits are counted with a one-way hash) - show ad trackers ### Safe for research We crawl and classify tens of thousands of pages every day and keep illegal material out of search and the directory. Researchers, journalists and activists can study the network here without walking into it. A listing is never an endorsement. Read our [Legal notice](/pages/legal-notice). ### Who it is for - #### Researchers and journalists Study what exists on Tor and how it changes. - #### Privacy-minded people Find services that answer, with reviews from people who used them. - #### Site owners Claim your listing, sign your addresses, see your analytics. - #### Developers and AI agents Markdown versions of every page, llms.txt and ai.txt. ### Questions **Is it free?** Yes. Searching, browsing and joining cost nothing. **Do I need an account?** Not to search or browse. You need one to review, post, follow sites or report content. **How do sites get listed?** Owners add them, and our crawlers discover new ones by following links. **How do you know a site is online?** Probes connect to it over Tor in a continuous loop and record whether it answered. **How can I tell a site's address is genuine?** Look for the Verified badge: the owner signed that address with their PGP key and we checked the signature. **How do I reach you?** Through a support ticket, or see [Contact us](/pages/contact). ### Join the community Review sites, follow the ones you use and help keep the network honest. [Our Community](/forum) [Add site](/sites/create)