Software for data and metadata collection from darknet marketplaces

Czech title

Software pro sběr dat a metadat z darknet tržišť

Type

software

License

required - licence fee

Authors

Dolejška Daniel, Ing. (DIFS FIT BUT)
Veselý Vladimír, Ing., Ph.D. (DIFS FIT BUT)
Grégr Matěj, Ing., Ph.D. (DIFS FIT BUT)

Keywords

webscraping, crawling, CAPTCHA, HTML decoding

Description

The software will periodically access selected darknet marketplaces. It will then download lists of offered goods, their prices and the state of stocks, information on sellers and buyers from the non-public content of the markets. It will store all this data in a relational database enabling mass processing and analysis.

Location

Source codes are available after registration in private repo at https://git.bazar.nesad.fit.vutbr.cz/BAZAR/tor-scraper

Licence

The source code is protected by the GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE (Version 3, 29 June 2007).

Projects

BAZAR: Building better and safer darknet without wallet-less marketplaces (VJ01030004)

Research groups

NES@FIT - Networks and distributed systems research group (VZ NES@FIT)

Departments

Department of Information Systems FIT BUT (DIFS FIT BUT)