# assetnote/kiterunner

Contextual Content Discovery Tool

Repository: https://github.com/assetnote/kiterunner
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/kiterunner
Language: Go
License: AGPL-3.0
License Family: copyleft
Last push: 2026-07-10T04:51:01+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 64/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 91, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 1974, "days_push": 54, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 3247, forks 342 (observed 2026-08-28T04:07:50.664391+00:00)

## What it is
Kiterunner is a fast content discovery tool written in Go that bruteforces files, folders, and API routes on web servers. It uses a dataset of Swagger/OpenAPI specifications to send correctly-formed requests (HTTP methods, headers, parameters) to discover endpoints in modern application frameworks that traditional directory brute-forcers miss.

## Use cases
- discover hidden API endpoints on a target web application
- bruteforce routes in Flask, Rails, Express, or Django apps with correct HTTP methods
- perform fast traditional directory and file content discovery
- scan targets using Swagger-derived wordlists
- convert Swagger files and dirsearch outputs into kite format for scanning
- replay discovered requests for verification

## When to choose
- you need API endpoint discovery beyond simple file/folder bruteforcing
- you want very high-speed content discovery with configurable concurrency
- you have Swagger/OpenAPI-based wordlists to target modern frameworks

## When to avoid
- you need a GUI-based vulnerability scanner rather than a CLI discovery tool
- your targets are not web applications or APIs
- you require a maintained commercial product with support

## Facets
- artifact type: cli-tool
- maturity: stable
- function: security, http-client, web-scraping
- domain: security, penetration-testing, apis, web-development
- platform: windows, cli, go
- tags: content-discovery, api-endpoint-bruteforcing, swagger, dirsearch, wordlists, bug-bounty, linux, macos

## Member repositories
- assetnote/kiterunner (main) score 64

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:50.664391+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T07:24:28.005748+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/assetnote/kiterunner (fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:50.664391+00:00, sha 2b557b957a61)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.