autoscrapervskatana
Autoscraper project is made for automatic web scraping to make scraping easy. It gets a url or the html content of a web page and a list of sample data which we want to scrape from that page. This data can be text, url or any html tag value of that page. It learns the scraping rules and returns the similar elements. Then you can use this learned object with new urls to get similar content or the exact same element of those new pages.
Autoscraper is minimalistic and auto-generative approach to web scraping. For example, here's a scraper that finds all titles on a stackoverflow.com page:
```python from autoscraper import AutoScraper
url = 'https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2081586/web-scraping-with-python'
We can add one or multiple candidates here.
You can also put urls here to retrieve urls.
wanted_list = ["What are metaclasses in Python?"]
scraper = AutoScraper() result = scraper.build(url, wanted_list) print(result) ```
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.