XSScrapy

XSScrapy is an application based on Scrapy and allows us to find XSS vulnerabilities and SQL-injection-type vulnerabilities.

The source code is available in the GitHub repository: https://github.com/DanMcInerney/xsscrapy.

To install it on our machine, we could clone the repository and execute the python pip command together with the requirements.txt file, which contains the Python dependencies and modules used by the application:

$ git clone https://github.com/DanMcInerney/xsscrapy.git$ pip install -r requirements.txt

One of the main dependencies you need to install is scrapy: https://scrapy.org/.

Scrapy is a framework for Python that allows you to perform webscraping tasks, web crawling processes, and data analysis. It allows us ...

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