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Arachni

Web Application Security Scanner Framework.

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Page copy revised 25 Oct 2026 from public sources. Refresh checks the live site and, when this entry has a GitHub repository, the latest release.

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Introduction

Arachni has become obsolete, try out its next-gen successor Ecsypno Spectre Scan!

Features

These items are quoted from public documentation fetched on 25 Oct 2026. Taken from repository README headings.

  1. Synopsis: Arachni is a feature-full, modular, high-performance Ruby framework aimed towards helping penetration testers and administrators evaluate the security of web applications.
  2. General: - Cookie-jar/cookie-string support. - Custom header support. - SSL support with fine-grained options. - User Agent spoofing. - Proxy support for SOCKS4, SOCKS4A, SOCKS5, HTTP/1.1 and HTTP/1.0. - Proxy authentication. - Site authentication (SSL-based, form-based, Cookie-Jar, Basic-Digest, NTLMv1, Kerberos and others).…
  3. Integrated browser environment: Arachni includes an integrated, real browser environment in order to provide sufficient coverage to modern web applications which make use of technologies such as HTML5, JavaScript, DOM manipulation, AJAX, etc.
  4. Coverage: The system can provide great coverage to modern web applications due to its integrated browser environment. This allows it to interact with complex applications that make heavy use of client-side code (like JavaScript) just like a human would.
  5. Open distributed architecture: Arachni is designed to fit into your workflow and easily integrate with your existing infrastructure.
  6. Scope configuration: - Filters for redundant pages like galleries, catalogs, etc. based on regular expressions and counters. - Can optionally detect and ignore redundant pages automatically. - URL exclusion filters using regular expressions. - Page exclusion filters based on content, using regular expressions. - URL inclusion filters…

Pros

Points stated in the public sources fetched on 25 Oct 2026:

  1. Repository topics: The repository’s GitHub topics include analysis, arachni, audit, crawler, detection, dom, hack, hacking.

Cons

The pages fetched on 25 Oct 2026 do not publish a limitations list. That absence is not evidence that the tool has no drawbacks. Current issues are tracked at https://github.com/Arachni/arachni/issues.

The fetched README did not include a fenced code example. Use the official documentation linked below.

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Pricing

No public price was found on the pages fetched on 25 Oct 2026. This rewrite does not guess a number. Check the official website before treating the tool as free or paid.

The fetched pages do not name a target audience. Decide fit from the official description and the feature list above.

Conclusion

Arachni is summarized by its public description as: “Web Application Security Scanner Framework.”.

No GitHub release was available when this page was rebuilt.

This page was rebuilt on 25 Oct 2026 from ecsypno.com, github.com. It keeps only what those pages stated. Confirm the current product, license, and price on the official site before you adopt it.