Trawler

A job scheduler and analysis tool for webscraping (and other) tasks.

Datasources

Curently the following datasources are implemented:

"

• facebook posts and reactions scrape facebook posts, comments and reactions (like, heart, etc)
• gab (nazi-twitter) crawl posts for user
• google dorking find interesting files and download them
• json to csv convert json array into csv
• mail sends mails and files - mostly usefull in pipelines
• masscan udp based port scanner (requires docker)
• motiondetection script to to motionanalysis in directory with videofiles
• onionlist download tor-catalogue from onionlist.org
• onions.danwin1210.de download tor-catalogue from danwin1210.de, and creates screenshots of each website in the result
• tiktok get video metadata per hashtag, download them and analyse the text using easyOCR
• url generic http scraper
• urlscreenshotter scrapes comma separated list of urls and creates screenshot of each of them"

Create your own datasource

- copy template dir in ./jobs
- define fields in fields.js which are needed to start the job
- a job can output one or multiple files
- no directories should be used, please use archives
- use job_id.ext (eg job_id.json) as filename

Features

• simple configuration of actions/datasources, also from 3rd party modules/repos
• job monitoring and scheduling
• schedule jobs
• sqlite, csv and json browser
• separation of datasets/artifacts (one archive per crawl)
• scalable amount of workers (also on other machines)

Architecture

Frontend and API

• GUI to create and schedule jobs
• Displays pending, running and done jobs
• Display csv and sqlite datasets

Worker(s)

• Can be distributed (workers and c&c on different locations/servers)
• Jobs are managed through json files (and can be distrubuted with an adapter like pouchDB)
• Multithreaded

Install & run

Using NPM

npm i
npm run all