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Nov 07 2022 v1.5.0(2026-03-10 14:52:47 ago)
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Jun 06 2019 2026-04-11(2026-04-11 21:30:25 ago)

Katana is a next-generation web crawling and spidering framework written in Go by ProjectDiscovery. It is designed for fast, comprehensive endpoint and asset discovery and is widely used in the security research and bug bounty communities.

Katana offers multiple crawling modes:

  • Standard mode Fast HTTP-based crawling without a browser. Parses HTML, JavaScript files, and other resources to discover endpoints and links.
  • Headless mode Uses a headless Chrome browser for crawling JavaScript-rendered pages and single-page applications (SPAs).
  • Passive mode Discovers URLs from external sources (Wayback Machine, CommonCrawl, etc.) without actively visiting the target.

Key features include:

  • Scope control Configurable crawl scope with regex patterns for including/excluding URLs, domains, and file extensions.
  • JavaScript parsing Extracts endpoints from JavaScript files, inline scripts, and AJAX requests even in standard (non-headless) mode.
  • Customizable output Filter and format output with field selection, JSON output, and custom templates.
  • Rate limiting Built-in rate limiting and concurrency control to avoid overwhelming targets.
  • Proxy support HTTP and SOCKS5 proxy support with rotation.
  • Form filling Can detect and auto-fill forms to discover endpoints behind form submissions.

While Katana was designed for security research and reconnaissance, its fast crawling capabilities and JavaScript parsing make it equally useful for web scraping discovery and sitemap generation.

Geziyor is a blazing fast web crawling and web scraping framework. It can be used to crawl websites and extract structured data from them. Geziyor is useful for a wide range of purposes such as data mining, monitoring and automated testing.

Features:

  • JS Rendering
  • 5.000+ Requests/Sec
  • Caching (Memory/Disk/LevelDB)
  • Automatic Data Exporting (JSON, CSV, or custom)
  • Metrics (Prometheus, Expvar, or custom)
  • Limit Concurrency (Global/Per Domain)
  • Request Delays (Constant/Randomized)
  • Cookies, Middlewares, robots.txt
  • Automatic response decoding to UTF-8
  • Proxy management (Single, Round-Robin, Custom)

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Example Use


```go package main import ( "context" "math" "github.com/projectdiscovery/katana/pkg/engine/standard" "github.com/projectdiscovery/katana/pkg/output" "github.com/projectdiscovery/katana/pkg/types" ) func main() { // Configure crawl options options := &types.Options{ MaxDepth: 3, FieldScope: "rdn", // restrict to root domain BodyReadSize: math.MaxInt, Timeout: 10, Concurrency: 10, Parallelism: 10, Delay: 0, RateLimit: 150, Strategy: "depth-first", OnResult: func(result output.Result) { // Process each discovered URL println(result.Request.URL) }, } // Create and run the crawler crawlerOptions, _ := types.NewCrawlerOptions(options) defer crawlerOptions.Close() crawler, _ := standard.New(crawlerOptions) defer crawler.Close() // Start crawling _ = crawler.Crawl("https://example.com") } ```
```go // This example extracts all quotes from quotes.toscrape.com and exports to JSON file. func main() { geziyor.NewGeziyor(&geziyor.Options{ StartURLs: []string{"http://quotes.toscrape.com/"}, ParseFunc: quotesParse, Exporters: []export.Exporter{&export.JSON{}}, }).Start() } func quotesParse(g *geziyor.Geziyor, r *client.Response) { r.HTMLDoc.Find("div.quote").Each(func(i int, s *goquery.Selection) { g.Exports <- map[string]interface{}{ "text": s.Find("span.text").Text(), "author": s.Find("small.author").Text(), } }) if href, ok := r.HTMLDoc.Find("li.next > a").Attr("href"); ok { g.Get(r.JoinURL(href), quotesParse) } } ```

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