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Katana

Fast, fully configurable web crawler and spider for security researchers, with headless JS crawling.

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A fast, fully configurable web crawling and spidering framework that runs on desktop and supports headless JavaScript rendering, automatic form filling, scope control, and an ML-based page/form classification knowledge base. Katana is aimed at security researchers and bug bounty hunters who need to discover content standard crawlers miss in JavaScript-heavy applications; it is self-hosted, open-source under MIT and part of the ProjectDiscovery toolkit.

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security toolsweb crawling

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