# Stem Docs

## Welcome to Stem!

Note

Stem is mostly unmaintained. However, you can still:

- Open issues at https://github.com/torproject/stem/issues

- Work on an issue and open a pull request at https://github.com/torproject/stem/pulls

- Contact us (via tor-dev mailing list or gk at torproject dot org) to request a new bugfix release including some patches in the Stem’s master branch or pull requests.

Stem is a Python controller library for Tor. With it you can use Tor’s control protocol to script against the Tor process, or build things such as Nyx. Stem’s latest version is 1.8.1 (released September, 2022).

- Contents

- Module Index

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