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    dstotijn/hetty

    An HTTP toolkit for security research.

    networking
    bugbounty
    http
    infosec
    mitm
    pentesting
    Go
    MIT
    12.5K stars
    824 forks
    12.5K GitHub watchers
    Updated Oct 31, 2026
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    Where it stands

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    The project lists 9 contributors on GitHub.

    Peaked at #34 in the weekly ranking the week of Jun 28, its best in the past year.

    Use Cases & Benefits

    • Provides an HTTP toolkit featuring a machine-in-the-middle proxy, HTTP client, and web admin interface for security research.
    • Offers an open source alternative to commercial security tools with advanced interception, logging, and scope management tailored for infosec professionals.
    • Use for intercepting and modifying HTTP requests and responses during penetration testing to identify vulnerabilities.
    • Use for organizing bug bounty research projects with scoped proxying and project-based database storage.
    • Use for replaying and manually crafting HTTP requests to test web application security and behavior.

    Should you depend on it?

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    License

    MIT

    Permissive: commercial use, modification and redistribution are allowed with attribution.

    Community files

    • README: present
    • Contributing guide: present
    • Code of conduct: present

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    From the README

    Hetty is an HTTP toolkit for security research. It aims to become an open source alternative to commercial software like Burp Suite Pro, with powerful features tailored to the needs of the infosec and bug bounty community.

    👷‍♂️ Hetty is under active development. Check the backlog for the current status.

    📣 Are you pen testing professionaly in a team? I would love to hear your thoughts on tooling via this 5 minute survey. Thank you!

    💡 The Getting started doc has more detailed install and usage instructions.

    Excerpt from the dstotijn/hetty README on GitHub (MIT license). © its authors.Read the full README on GitHub

    Daily snapshots

    Stars gained per day, and how forks and open issues moved, from GStars' daily snapshots

    Sep 8: +94Sep 9: +14Sep 14: +0Sep 15: +2Oct 5: +2

    +532 stars over 82 days across 13 snapshot days; best day +94 on Sep 8.

    Forks

    824+47

    Open issues

    52+1

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