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Nov 07 2022 v1.5.0(2026-03-10 14:52:47 ago)
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Mar 16 2013 53 (month) v0.7.6(2025-12-04 15:08:06 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.

php-spider is a PHP library for web crawling and scraping. It allows developers to easily navigate and extract data from websites by simulating a web browser's behavior.

  • supports two traversal algorithms: breadth-first and depth-first
  • supports crawl depth limiting, queue size limiting and max downloads limiting
  • supports adding custom URI discovery logic, based on XPath, CSS selectors, or plain old PHP
  • comes with a useful set of URI filters, such as Domain limiting
  • supports custom URI filters, both prefetch (URI) and postfetch (Resource content)
  • supports custom request handling logic
  • supports Basic, Digest and NTLM HTTP authentication. See example.
  • comes with a useful set of persistence handlers (memory, file)
  • supports custom persistence handlers
  • collects statistics about the crawl for reporting
  • dispatches useful events, allowing developers to add even more custom behavior
  • supports a politeness policy

This Spider does not support Javascript.

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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") } ```
```php use Example\StatsHandler; use VDB\Spider\Discoverer\XPathExpressionDiscoverer; use Symfony\Contracts\EventDispatcher\Event; use VDB\Spider\Event\SpiderEvents; use VDB\Spider\Spider; require_once('example_complex_bootstrap.php'); // Create Spider $spider = new Spider('http://dmoztools.net'); // Add a URI discoverer. Without it, the spider does nothing. In this case, we want tags from a certain
$spider->getDiscovererSet()->set(new XPathExpressionDiscoverer("//div[@id='catalogs']//a")); // Set some sane options for this example. In this case, we only get the first 10 items from the start page. $spider->getDiscovererSet()->maxDepth = 1; $spider->getQueueManager()->maxQueueSize = 10; // Let's add something to enable us to stop the script $spider->getDispatcher()->addListener( SpiderEvents::SPIDER_CRAWL_USER_STOPPED, function (Event $event) { echo "\nCrawl aborted by user.\n"; exit(); } ); // Add a listener to collect stats to the Spider and the QueueMananger. // There are more components that dispatch events you can use. $statsHandler = new StatsHandler(); $spider->getQueueManager()->getDispatcher()->addSubscriber($statsHandler); $spider->getDispatcher()->addSubscriber($statsHandler); // Execute crawl $spider->crawl(); // Build a report echo "\n ENQUEUED: " . count($statsHandler->getQueued()); echo "\n SKIPPED: " . count($statsHandler->getFiltered()); echo "\n FAILED: " . count($statsHandler->getFailed()); echo "\n PERSISTED: " . count($statsHandler->getPersisted()); // Finally we could do some processing on the downloaded resources // In this example, we will echo the title of all resources echo "\n\nDOWNLOADED RESOURCES: "; foreach ($spider->getDownloader()->getPersistenceHandler() as $resource) { echo "\n - " . $resource->getCrawler()->filterXpath('//title')->text(); } ```

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