Dark Web Crawler for OSINT, Cybersecurity Research, and Threat Intelligence
DarkWebSpyder is a Python-based dark web crawler designed to explore and gather open-source intelligence (OSINT) from hidden .onion
websites on the Tor network.
It is built for cybersecurity analysts, law enforcement, and researchers working in threat intelligence and dark web monitoring.
- ✅ Securely connects to the Tor network
- ✅ Crawls and indexes
.onion
domains - ✅ Extracts metadata, keywords, and sentiment
- ✅ Filters pages using custom threat terms
- ✅ Supports natural language processing (TextBlob + NLTK)
- ✅ Modular and extendable for custom OSINT workflows
- Python 3.8 or higher
- Install dependencies with:
pip install -r requirements.txt
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📌 Usage
1. python3 WebSpy.py -q "ransomware"
2. python3 WebSpy.py -q "credit cards"