Get spider status

[0xdevalias]

There is currently an endpoint that allows the current scan status to be retrieved, but not an equivalent for the spider.

It would be cool to be able to check when it has 'finished spidering', or how many items are left in it's queue (similar to what is shown in the burp UI)

[0xdevalias]

Having a bit of a deeper look into this, it seems that the burp interface may not expose this information:

• https://portswigger.net/burp/extender/api/
• https://portswigger.net/burp/extender/api/burp/IBurpExtenderCallbacks.html#sendToSpider(java.net.URL)

Submitted request to Burp support:

Hi,

I realise that it appears to probably not currently be possible, but I was wanting to get access to the current 'spider status' from an extension.

Details I would be interested in access to include basically all of the details we can access through the UI:

• Pause/Unpause/Status of pause
• Clear Queues
• Requests Made
• Bytes Transferred
• Requests Queued
• Forms Queued

It would also be really good if it was possible to gain access to the spider queues in some form.

This would be to make the following feasible to implement: #35

The current alternatives I see are trying to figure out how to access these areas without using the extender API callbacks, or looking into products other than burp that could suite our needs. Neither of which are obviously ideal choices.

Would love to discuss more.

Thanks

There are also some community posts from 2016 about this:

• https://support.portswigger.net/customer/portal/questions/16356090-get-spider-status-thru-api

[ikkisoft]

Despite Burp not exposing this value in the extender APIs, I've implemented an experimental workaround. It's currently available in the PR #41 (and it will be hopefully merged to master soon).

[gangelino]

Thanks for submitting this PR @ikkisoft!