projectdiscovery/katana
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A next-generation crawling and spidering framework. observed · 2026-09-25
Health v2 · maintenance only
90/100
- Activity 96
- Release rhythm 77
- Longevity 100
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-10-21. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: 54
- age_days: 2117
- days_rel: 76
- days_push: 27
- n_releases_24m: 12
Adoption not part of the score
17565 stars · 1188 forks observed · 2026-09-25
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded
Katana is a fast, configurable web crawling and spidering framework written in Go, supporting both standard HTTP-based and headless browser modes. It parses JavaScript, auto-fills forms, and offers scope control and customizable JSON/file output, making it popular for security reconnaissance.
Use cases
- crawl all endpoints of a website for bug bounty recon
- spider a site headlessly to discover JavaScript-loaded URLs
- enumerate links and forms on a target domain
- discover hidden paths and endpoints on a web app
- feed discovered URLs into vulnerability scanners
- automatically fill and submit forms while crawling
When to choose
- you need fast, scriptable web crawling from the CLI
- you want headless browser crawling with JS rendering
- you're doing security reconnaissance or attack surface mapping
- you need JSON output to pipe into other tools
When to avoid
- you need a polite, SEO-oriented production crawler with robots.txt compliance by default
- you want a GUI-based crawling tool
- you need distributed large-scale crawling infrastructure
Facets
cli-tool · maturity active
web-scraping cli parser security crawlers web-development developer-tools windows cli go web-crawler spidering headless-browser javascript-parsing reconnaissance bug-bounty attack-surface-discovery form-filling command-line linux macos docker
1 source
- readme: https://github.com/projectdiscovery/katana · fetched 2026-09-25 · c5f47d025d43
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| projectdiscovery/katana | main | 90 |
For agents
markdown · JSON · MCP: product_card(name="projectdiscovery/katana")
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