crapcount

Name

crapcount - Cookie and Request Analyzer ++

(formerly known as cookiecount)

Description

crapcount allows generation of an automated report of cookies and all the 3rd party domains the given website makes a browser talk to.

The tool is here and it's freely available, don't say you had no way of knowing about all that crap.

Synopsis

usage: crapcount [-h] [--browser BROWSER] [--nocookies]
                 [--nohosts] [--nourls]
                 [--waituntil WAITUNTIL] [--reportonly]
                 [--json]
                 url

Examples

crapcount https://example.com

crapcount https://google.com --json

crapcount https://wired.com --reportonly

crapcount https://reddit.com --json --nourls --nocookies --waituntil=load

Running into timeouts, not satisfied with the results?

The --waituntil option may need to be adjusted depending on the page's architecture. See the Puppeteer documentation about the available options.

Dependencies

Python 3
Chrome or Chromium
pyppeteer for remote controlling Chrome/Chromium
- The ancient "embedded" Chromium which pyppeteer uses by default is untested and unsupported.

Copyright and License

MIT License

Copyright (c) 2022 Martin Schmitt

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all
copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE
SOFTWARE.

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