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Data Theft Repackaged: A Case Study in Malicious Wrapper Packages on npm
The Socket Research Team breaks down a malicious wrapper package that uses obfuscation to harvest credentials and exfiltrate sensitive data.
The spider project ported to Python.
pip install spider_rs
import asyncio
from spider_rs import Website
async def main():
website = Website("https://choosealicense.com")
website.crawl()
print(website.get_links())
asyncio.run(main())
View the examples to learn more.
Install maturin pipx install maturin
and python.
maturin develop
View the benchmarks to see a breakdown between libs and platforms.
Test url: https://espn.com
libraries | pages | speed |
---|---|---|
spider(rust): crawl | 150,387 | 1m |
spider(nodejs): crawl | 150,387 | 153s |
spider(python): crawl | 150,387 | 186s |
scrapy(python): crawl | 49,598 | 1h |
crawlee(nodejs): crawl | 18,779 | 30m |
The benches above were ran on a mac m1, spider on linux arm machines performs about 2-10x faster.
Please submit a Github issue for any issues found.
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We found that spider-rs demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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