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Lookyloo: scrape a website and displays a tree of domains calling each other

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64 pointsadulau11 comments

Fantastic, I will be using this every day.

Dislikes: logo, and when you scrape a new website there's no visual or other feedback about the scraping process so there's a temptation to just reload the page.

Suggestions: animate folding so navigation focus isn't lost. Offer alternative tree view schemas that reflect node degree size.

But overall, great. I want to use it all the time for everything; this is how the browser inspector should work, instead of being locked into a text paradigm that requires the user to read everything.

At least in the UK and Australia, "loo" commonly means a toilet.

And what do you expect to see when you look at the morass of tracking and advertisers?

"rubbernecker" would've also made a good name for this project. I don't see anything wrong with the more European terminology, though :)

We would never miss a good poop joke, especially for our British friend who deserve a good laugh, especially these days, but in that case, it is somewhat more clever: https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=lookyloo

RequestMap does the same but also categorizes domains by type (eg: advertiser, analytics), and uses a coloured force-directed graph. http://requestmap.webperf.tools/

That's super fun. Thanks.

Is RequestMap Open Source?

Not that I know, but I suppose you could ask Simon.

RequestMap does all of this, even more. Why reinventing the wheel?

I really appreciate what CIRCL does for the infosec world with MISP but they should focus on fixing all the issues with MISP and AIL (especially AIL) and cleaning their code, instead of starting a project for a need that is already filled by multiple solutions.

Is RequestMap OpenSource ? EDIT : Ok. Got an answer : No. So I believe Lookyloo still fill a gap.

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