webtraffic

README

Web Traffic Generator

The webtraffic tool is a CLI-based implementation designed to simulate "organic" web browsing behaviour for demonstration or testing purposes.

Features

• Recursive web surfing with configurable depth
• Configurable delay between requests
• Blacklist support to avoid unwanted domains
• Detailed logging with verbose option
• Easily configurable via YAML file or command line flags
• Automatic handling of rate limiting (HTTP 429 responses)

Installation

Prerequisites

• Go 1.16 or higher

Building from source

1. Clone the repository: ... repo url goes here ...
2. Build the binary: go build -o webtraffic

Configuration

The tool can be configured using a YAML file or command line flags. By default, it looks for a .webtraffic.yaml file in your home directory.

Sample Configuration File

Create a file named .webtraffic.yaml in your home directory with the following content:

verbose: false
max_depth: 10
min_depth: 3
max_wait: 10
min_wait: 5
root_urls:
- https://www.example.com
- https://www.another-example.com
blacklist:
- facebook.com
- pinterest.com
user_agent: "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/91.0.4472.114 Safari/537.36"

Command-line Flags

• config: Specify a custom config file path
• verbose: Enable verbose logging
• max-depth: Set maximum browsing depth
• min-depth: Set minimum browsing depth
• max-wait: Set maximum wait time between requests
• min-wait: Set minimum wait time between requests

Usage

Run the tool using the following command:

../webtraffic

To use custom configuration:

./webtraffic --config /path/to/custom/config.yaml

To override specific settings:

./webtraffic --verbose --max-depth 15

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License.

Disclaimer

This tool is for educational and testing purposes only. The authors are not responsible for any misuse or damage caused by this tool.

Additional Notes

The idea to build this tool has been directly taken from the ReconInfoSec Github account.