/deep-scrape

Scrape pages with node/io.js and get a whole lot of meta data. Shows; headers, Ajax requests/responses, rendered html, Javascript AST's, dependencies, console events, and a whole lot more.

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Deep Scrape

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Scrape and crawl pages with io.js and get a whole lot of meta data. Shows; headers, Ajax requests/responses, rendered html, Javascript AST's, dependencies, console events, and a whole lot more. Crawl sites, or scrape a single page. Add cookies or proxy requests. Fingerprints common javascript libraries, and allows you to write your own.

Installation

This was tested on node 0.12.x. It can be run as a module export, or a command line script.

npm install deep-scrape
// or clone the repository and run it as a script.

Use Case

  • You are scraping websites with lots of javascript (Angular, Ember, Browserfy).
  • You don't mind trading a bit of performance for more detailed scraping data.
  • You would like to find potential DOM sinks and sources on your pages (Possibly for vulnerability scanning).
  • You need the most detailed metadata, metrics, and analyitics on your scraped pages.
  • You would like to fingerprint possible technologies a certain site or page uses.