Cybersecurity Pool: Arachnida 🕷️

Overview

Arachnida is a two-phase project focusing on web scraping and metadata analysis.

The project includes the following sections:

1. Spider: A program that recursively downloads images from websites.
2. Scorpion: A program that parses and displays metadata from image files.

This project aims to provide practical experience in web data extraction and working with metadata.

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Installation

• Clone the repository:

git clone https://github.com/whymami/Arachnida
cd Arachnida

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Features

Spider 🕸️

• Recursively downloads images from a specified URL.
• Supported image formats: .jpg, .jpeg, .png, .gif, .bmp.
• Program Options:
  • -r: Enables recursive downloading.
  • -r -l [N]: Sets recursive download depth (default: 5).
  • -p [PATH]: Sets the directory for downloaded files (default: ./data/).
  • -h: Provides detailed information about parameters.

Usage

python3 Spider.py [-r] [-l N] [-p PATH] URL

Scorpion 🦂

Analyzes and displays metadata from image files:

• Creation date.
• EXIF data.
• Compatible with the same formats as Spider.

Usage

./python3 Scorpion.py FILE1 [FILE2 ...]

Bonus Part ✨

• Edit or delete metadata in image files.
• Graphical interface for metadata management.

Usage

cd bonus
python3 main.py

Project Structure

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├── Spider.py               # Spider program
├── Scorpion.py            # Scorpion program
├── data/                  # Default directory for files downloaded by Spider
├── bonus/                 # Bonus section
│   ├── Scorpion.py        # Scorpion program for bonus
│   ├── main.py            # Bonus main file
│   └── gui.py             # Graphical interface file
│   └── requirements.txt   # Requirements file
└── README.md              # Project documentation