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smouzakis
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May 05, 2017

DDoS Layer 7 and Web Scraping Tools for Testing

Dear Team,

 

Which is the recommended tool for testing DDoS Layer 7 applied on HTTPS Virtual Server? I have not found a tool for Web Scraping.

 

Any suggestions?

 

Kind Regards,

 

SM

 

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  • nathe's avatar
    nathe
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    Options for tools are HTTrack, Burpsuite and OWASP ZAP - i think all have that functionality.

     

  • To expand the list:

     

    • cURL – command line tool and library for transferring (including getting) data with URLs.
    • Data Toolbar – web scraping add-on for IExplorer, Mozilla Firefox, and Google Chrome Web browsers.
    • Diffbot – uses computer vision and machine learning to automatically extract data from web pages.
    • Heritrix – gets pages (lots of them). It is a web crawler designed for web archiving.
    • HtmlUnit – headless browser that can be used for retrieving web pages, web scraping, and more.
    • iMacros –a browser extension to record, code, share and replay browser automation (javascript).
    • Kantu – uses screenshots and OCR for scraping.
    • Selenium (software) – a portable software-testing framework for web applications.
    • Jaxer
    • nokogiri
    • OutWit Hub – Web scraping application.
    • watir
    • Wget – computer program that retrieves content from web servers.
    • WSO2 Mashup Server
    • Yahoo! Query Language (YQL)
    • Data Scraping Studio – Stand alone windows desktop software.

       

    • Greasemonkey

       

    • Node.js
    • PhantomJS – scripted, headless browser used for automating web page interaction.
    • jQuery

       

    • Agenty – SaaS solution, paid versions available.

       

    • Apify – Web scraping and automation platform, free and paid versions available.
    • dexi.io – SaaS solution, free and paid versions available.
    • diggernaut.com – Turn websites into datasets, free and paid subscriptions available.
    • fScraper – Facebook friendly scraper, SaaS solution, free and paid versions available.
    • Import.io – SaaS solution.
    • Listly.io – HTML to Excel in seconds, free SaaS service.
    • Mozenda – SaaS solution, is a web-based platform for web data extraction.
    • uScraper – SaaS service, free and paid versions available.
    • Scrapy

    Cheers!