Cockroach Crawler 0.2.0 is a security-focused release for bounded public-web and explicitly trusted crawling.
Highlights:
- DNS-validated, address-pinned requests with redirect-hop revalidation.
- Conservative Chromium proxy with deny-by-default egress, SSRF controls, exact budgets, robots/sitemap policy, and fail-closed cookie handling.
- Agent adapter at
cockroach-crawler/agentwith immutable creator policy. - Public TypeScript declarations, JSON/JSONL CLI output, provenance, stats, and content hashes.
- 45 core tests plus 26 real Chromium integration tests; Node 20.18.1, 22, and 24 CI.
Install:
npm install cockroach-crawler@0.2.0The browser is not a JavaScript/process sandbox. Review SECURITY.md and use browser mode only for authorized targets.