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Evine – Interactive CLI Web Crawler

August 11, 2020
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Evine - Interactive CLI Web Crawler

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Evine is a simple, fast, and interactive web crawler and web scraper written in Golang. Evine is useful for a wide range of purposes such as metadata and data extraction, data mining, reconnaissance and testing.

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Install

From Binary
Pre-build binary releases are also available.

From source

go get github.com/saeeddhqan/evine
"$GOPATH/bin/evine" -h

From GitHub

git clone https://github.com/saeeddhqan/evine.git
cd evine
go build .
mv evine /usr/local/bin
evine --help

Note: golang 1.13.x required.

Commands & Usage

Keybinding Description
Enter Run crawler (from URL view)
Enter Display response (from Keys and Regex views)
Tab Next view
Ctrl+Space Run crawler
Ctrl+S Save response
Ctrl+Z Quit
Ctrl+R Restore to default values (from Options and Headers views)
Ctrl+Q Close response save view (from Save view) 
evine -h

It will displays help for the tool:

flag Description Example
-url URL to crawl for evine -url toscrape.com
-url-exclude string Exclude URLs maching with this regex (default “.*”) evine -url-exclude ?id=
-domain-exclude string Exclude in-scope domains to crawl. Separate with comma. default=root domain evine -domain-exclude host1.tld,host2.tld
-code-exclude string Exclude HTTP status code with these codes. Separate whit ‘|’ (default “.*”) evine -code-exclude 200,201
-delay int Sleep between each request(Millisecond) evine -delay 300
-depth Scraper depth search level (default 1) evine -depth 2
-thread int The number of concurrent goroutines for resolving (default 5) evine -thread 10
-header HTTP Header for each request(It should to separated fields by n). evine -header KEY: VALUEnKEY1: VALUE1
-proxy string Proxy by scheme://ip:port evine -proxy http://1.1.1.1:8080
-scheme string Set the scheme for the requests (default “https”) evine -scheme http
-timeout int Seconds to wait before timing out (default 10) evine -timeout 15
-keys string What do you want? write here(email,url,query_urls,all_urls,phone,media,css,script,cdn,comment,dns,network,all, or a file extension) evine -keys urls,pdf,txt
-regex string Search the Regular Expression on the page contents evine -regex ‘User.+’
-max-regex int Max result of regex search for regex field (default 1000) evine -max-regex -1
-robots Scrape robots.txt for URLs and using them as seeds evine -robots
-sitemap Scrape sitemap.xml for URLs and using them as seeds evine -sitemap

VIEWS

  • URL: In this view, you should enter the URL string.
  • Options: This view is for setting options.
  • Headers: This view is for setting the HTTP Headers.
  • Keys: This view is used after the crawling web. It will be used to extract the data(docs, URLs, etc) from the web pages that have been crawled.
  • Regex: This view is useful to search the Regexes in web pages that have been crawled. Write your Regex in this view and press Enter.
  • Response: All of the results write in this view
  • Search: This view is used to search the Regexes in the Response content.

TODO

  • Archive crawler as seeds
  • JSON output

Bugs or Suggestions
Bugs or suggestions? Create an issue.
evine is heavily inspired by wuzz.

 


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