projectdiscovery/katana
A next-generation crawling and spidering framework.
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Where it stands
Rank, growth pace and release cadence relative to everything GStars tracks.
2 releases in the last 90 days, the latest 23 days ago, with 70 contributors on GitHub.
Peaked at #26 in the weekly ranking the week of Apr 5, its best in the past year.
Use Cases & Benefits
- Provides a fast, configurable web crawling and spidering framework with both standard and headless modes for comprehensive endpoint discovery.
- Enables JavaScript rendering and automatic form filling to discover dynamic and hidden endpoints that traditional crawlers might miss.
- Use for automated security testing pipelines to discover web application endpoints including JavaScript-generated URLs.
- Use for crawling authenticated web applications by supplying custom headers or connecting to active browser sessions with remote debugging.
- Use for scoped crawling with regex and domain-based controls to limit crawl boundaries and avoid irrelevant or external URLs.
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
Watch-outs
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From the README
A next-generation crawling and spidering framework
katana requires Go 1.24+ to install successfully. If you encounter any installation issues, we recommend trying with the latest available version of Go, as the minimum required version may have changed. Run the command below or download a pre-compiled binary from the release page.
More options to install / run katana-
Daily snapshots
Stars gained per day, and how forks and open issues moved, from GStars' daily snapshots
+512 stars over 90 days across 22 snapshot days; best day +37 on Sep 10.
Forks
1.2K+49
Open issues
28+9
Compared with peers in CLI
Fastest-growing repositories GStars tracks in this cohort for the week of Nov 1, by 7-day star growth
| Repository | Stars | +7d | Health | Last release |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| vercel-labs/agent-desktop | 17.0K | +13.3K | 33 | today |
| mattpocock/skills | 315.4K | +8.7K | 35 | 7 days ago |
| stablyai/orca | 116.8K | +6.6K | 40 | today |
| obra/superpowers | 313.1K | +4.5K | 53 | 2 days ago |
| Panniantong/Agent-Reach | 109.3K | +3.0K | 60 | 4 days ago |
| projectdiscovery/katana | 17.8K | — | 64 | 23 days ago |
| Category median | 116.8K | +6.6K | 40 | — |
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