# ronin-web
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## Description
ronin-web is a Ruby library that provides common web security commands and
additional libraries.
ronin-web is part of the [ronin-rb] project, a [Ruby] toolkit for security
research and development.
## Features
* HTML/XML parsing/building (using [Nokogiri][nokogiri]).
* Also provides additional extensions to [Nokogiri][nokogiri] using
[nokogiri-ext].
* Supports diffing HTML/XML documents using [nokogiri-diff].
* Automated Web Browsing using [Mechanize][mechanize].
* Supports random `User-Agent` generation using [ronin-web-user_agents].
* Provides an easy to use [Sinatra][sinatra] based web server using
[ronin-web-server].
* Provides an easy to use web spider using [ronin-web-spider].
* Provides a CLI for common web related tasks.
* Has 98% documentation coverage.
* Has 89% test coverage.
## Synopsis
```
Usage: ronin-web [options] [COMMAND [ARGS...]]
Options:
-h, --help Print help information
Arguments:
[COMMAND] The command name to run
[ARGS ...] Additional arguments for the command
Commands:
diff
help
html
irb
new
reverse-proxy
server
spider
```
## Examples
Get a web-page:
```ruby
Web.get('http://www.rubyinside.com/')
```
Get only the body of the web-page:
```ruby
Web.get_body('http://www.rubyinside.com/')
```
Get a [Mechanize agent][mechanize]:
```ruby
agent = Web.agent
```
Parse HTML:
```ruby
HTML.parse(open('some_file.html'))
# =>
#
#
#
#
#
```
Build a HTML document:
```ruby
doc = HTML.build do
html {
head {
script(:type => 'text/javascript', :src => 'redirect.js')
}
}
end
puts doc.to_html
#
#
```
Parse XML:
```ruby
XML.parse(some_text)
# =>
#
#
# admin
# 0mni
#
#
```
Build a XML document:
```ruby
doc = XML.build do
playlist {
mp3 {
file { text('02 THE WAIT.mp3') }
artist { text('Evil Nine') }
track { text('The Wait feat David Autokratz') }
duration { text('1000000000') }
}
}
end
puts doc.to_xml
#
#
#
# 02 THE WAIT.mp3
# Evil Nine
#
# 1000000000
#
#
```
## Requirements
* [Ruby] >= 3.0.0
* [nokogiri] ~> 1.4
* [nokogiri-ext] ~> 0.1
* [nokogiri-diff] ~> 0.2
* [mechanize] ~> 2.0
* [open_namespace] ~> 0.4
* [ronin-support] ~> 1.0
* [ronin-web-server] ~> 0.1
* [ronin-web-spider] ~> 0.1
* [ronin-web-user_agents] ~> 0.1
* [ronin-core] ~> 0.1
## Install
```shell
$ gem install ronin-web
```
## Development
1. [Fork It!](https://github.com/ronin-rb/ronin-web/fork)
2. Clone It!
3. `cd ronin-web`
4. `bundle install`
5. `git checkout -b my_feature`
6. Code It!
7. `bundle exec rake spec`
8. `git push origin my_feature`
## License
ronin-web - A collection of useful web helper methods and commands.
Copyright (c) 2006-2023 Hal Brodigan (postmodern.mod3 at gmail.com)
ronin-web is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.
ronin-web is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with ronin-web. If not, see .
[ronin-rb]: https://ronin-rb.dev
[Ruby]: https://www.ruby-lang.org
[nokogiri]: https://nokogiri.org/
[nokogiri-ext]: https://github.com/postmodern/nokogiri-ext#readme
[nokogiri-diff]: https://github.com/postmodern/nokogiri-diff#readme
[mechanize]: https://github.com/sparklemotion/mechanize#readme
[open_namespace]: https://github.com/postmodern/open_namespace#readme
[ronin-support]: https://github.com/ronin-rb/ronin-support#readme
[ronin-core]: https://github.com/ronin-rb/ronin-core#readme
[ronin-web-server]: https://github.com/ronin-rb/ronin-web-server#readme
[ronin-web-spider]: https://github.com/ronin-rb/ronin-web-spider#readme
[ronin-web-user_agents]: https://github.com/ronin-rb/ronin-web-user_agents#readme
[ronin]: https://github.com/ronin-rb/ronin#readme
[sinatra]: https://sinatrarb.com/