# everywall/ladder

Selfhosted alternative to 12ft.io. and 1ft.io. Proxy to remove CORS headers and modify HTML

Repository: https://github.com/everywall/ladder
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/ladder
Language: Go
License: GPL-3.0
License Family: copyleft
Topics: bypass, paywall, paywall-blocker, paywall-bypasser, cors, cors-proxy
Last push: 2026-08-21T22:13:55+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 88/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 98, release rhythm 82, longevity 74
- inputs: {"age_days": 1036, "days_push": 12, "days_rel": 121, "gap_med": 23, "n_releases_24m": 2}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 8880, forks 516 (observed 2026-08-28T04:10:26.120923+00:00)

## What it is
Ladder is a self-hosted Go web proxy that removes CORS and other headers (like CSP) and modifies HTML/CSS/JS in responses, serving as an alternative to 12ft.io. It supports domain-based rulesets, custom user agents, and Docker deployment.

## Use cases
- self-host a paywall bypass proxy like 12ft.io
- remove CORS headers from websites for testing
- strip content-security-policy headers from pages
- proxy and modify HTML of web pages
- test how sites serve content to different user agents
- bypass soft paywalls on news sites

## When to choose
- you want a self-hosted alternative to 12ft.io or 1ft.io
- you need to strip CORS/CSP headers or inject code into proxied pages
- you want domain-based rulesets and a browsable proxied site
- you need a lightweight Go proxy deployable via Docker

## When to avoid
- you need to bypass hard paywalls requiring authentication or advanced anti-bot measures
- you want a general-purpose anonymizing proxy like Tor
- you cannot legally or ethically bypass a site's terms of service
- you need a full-featured scraping framework rather than a proxy

## Facets
- artifact type: service
- maturity: active
- function: proxy, http-server, web-scraping, security
- domain: web-development, privacy, self-hosted, developer-tools
- platform: self-hosted, windows, go
- tags: paywall-bypass, cors-proxy, 12ft-io-alternative, html-modification, reverse-proxy, docker, linux, macos

## Member repositories
- everywall/ladder (main) score 88

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:10:26.120923+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 2026-08-29T17:24:45.145063+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/everywall/ladder (fetched 2026-08-28T04:10:26.120923+00:00, sha f2e3bca05d6e)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.