spider — security grade SAFE, quality 69/100

Security audit verdict: SAFE · quality 69/100

No red flags found in any of the 11 categories — no credential harvesting, no data exfiltration, no curl-pipe-shell installer. Scanned against the SlowMist agent-security taxonomy, refreshed every 8 hours. Full audit →

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About spider

Spider The fastest web crawler and scraper for Rust. spider.cloud · Guides · Docs · Examples · Discord Spider is a concurrency-first crawling engine written in Rust. It str

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Quick Facts

Stars2,727
Forks303
LanguageRust
CategoryAgent Tool
LicenseMIT
Quality Score68.9463922956082/100
Open Issues1
Last Updated2026-09-16
Created2018-01-07
Platformsbrowser, rust
Est. Tokens~23k

Compatible Skills

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  • webclaw — semantic(0.54)+complementary+rare_topics+same_lang+similar_pop+shared_platform (78%)
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  • brightdata-mcp — semantic(0.46)+complementary+rare_topics+similar_pop+shared_platform (65%)
  • graphlit-mcp-server — semantic(0.43)+complementary+rare_topics+similar_pop+shared_platform (59%)

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Frequently Asked Questions

What is spider?

spider is Foundational low latency web data collecting in Rust. It is categorized as a Agent Tool with 2.7k GitHub stars.

What programming language is spider written in?

spider is primarily written in Rust. It covers topics such as ai-agent, automation, crawler.

How do I install or use spider?

You can find installation instructions and usage details in the spider GitHub repository at github.com/spider-rs/spider. The project has 2.7k stars and 303 forks, indicating an active community.

What license does spider use?

spider is released under the MIT license, making it free to use and modify according to the license terms.

What are the best alternatives to spider?

The top alternatives to spider on Agent Skills Hub include crw, wigolo, brightdata-mcp. Each offers a different approach to the same problem space — compare them side-by-side by stars, quality score, and community activity.

How this security grade is produced

Grades come from a rule-based scan built on the SlowMist agent-security taxonomy, covering 11 red-flag categories including credential harvesting, data exfiltration, and curl | sh installers. It is a first-layer scan, not a manual audit — we say so rather than overstate it.

The scale of the problem is documented independently: Liu et al. (2026), in a study of 31,132 agent skills, report that 26.1% contain security vulnerabilities. Our own full-catalog census is published as a citable open dataset.

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