75  katana(1) - Kailash Tool Reference

75.1 katana

katana - Next-generation crawling and spidering framework.

Layer CLASSIC
Category c-01-information-gathering
Safety class safe
Licence MIT
Upstream github.com/projectdiscovery/katana
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75.1.1 NAME

katana - Next-generation crawling and spidering framework.

75.1.2 SYNOPSIS & usage

Derived from the upstream README at generation time; verify against --help where the tool is installed.

CGO_ENABLED=1 go install github.com/projectdiscovery/katana/cmd/katana@latest
docker pull projectdiscovery/katana:latest

75.1.3 DESCRIPTION (upstream)

  • Fast And fully configurable web crawling - Standard and Headless mode - JavaScript parsing / crawling - Customizable automatic form filling - Scope control - Preconfigured field / Regex - Knowledge base - ML page-type / form classification (auto-downloaded model) - Customizable output - Preconfigured fields - INPUT - STDIN, URL and LIST - OUTPUT - STDOUT, FILE and JSON katana requires Go 1.26+ to install successfully. If you encounter any installation issues, we recommend trying with the latest available version of Go, as the minimum required version may have changed. Run the command below or download a pre-compiled binary from the [relea

75.1.4 CONFIGURATION (detected)

Config-surface markers detected in the upstream README (8 matches, e.g. /etc/apt/keyrings, /etc/apt/keyrings/google-chrome.gpg). A full config reference page for this tool is queued under the config-page policy — this line is the detection record, not the page.

75.1.5 SEE ALSO

ref: pin - verified 2026-10-14