Wild Spider

Wild Spider

web pages are crawled by being loaded into browser using multiple tabs parallelly

What is Wild Spider?
Wild Spider is a Chrome extension that allows web pages to be crawled by being loaded into the browser using multiple tabs parallelly. It uses the current URL as the starting point and fetches all the links on the page to open them in multiple tabs. Please note that the more tabs you use, the more computer resources will be used.
Merlin
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By: Xuan Wu
Users: 47 ▲ 1
Rating: 1.00 (1)
Version: 0.0.3 (Last updated: 2019-03-08)
Creation date: 2019-03-08
Risk impact: High risk impact
Risk likelihood: Low risk likelihood
Manifest version: 2
Permissions:
  • tabs
  • activeTab
  • webNavigation
Size: 123.90K
URLs: Website
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Summary

WATCH OUT: more tabs you use, more computer resources (CPU, memory) will be used, and each page costs a bit disk to save the content (in IndexedDb, accessible from extensions -> Inspect views: background page).

The "spider" works in this way:

  1. The current url is used as the starting point, and it's loaded again in a new tab.
  2. After this page is loaded, fetch all the links on the page.
  3. Get all the links on the page, including relative urls.
  4. Open the extracted link parallelly in all the tabs used (by default 3, set in eventPage).
  5. repeat 2-4

All source code at: https://github.com/nobodxbodon/ChromeCrawlerWildSpider

User reviews
doesnt work
by Matt C Matt C, 2018-03-19
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Safety
Risk impact

Wild Spider is risky to use as it requires a number of sensitive permissions that can potentially harm your browser and steal your data. Exercise caution when installing this extension. Review carefully before installing. We recommend that you only install Wild Spider if you trust the publisher.

Risk likelihood

Wild Spider has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.

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