orbweaver-tools 1.3.3

Stealth-oriented utilities for web scraping with rotating user agents, proxies, and Selenium helpers.

Orb Weaver Tools

Utilities for stealth-oriented scraping workflows: Selenium driver setup, rotating headers, proxy support, and browser interaction helpers.

Features

• OrbDriver Selenium bootstrap with optional PIA VPN support
• Spoofed requests with rotating headers and optional proxies
• Proxy harvesting and validation helpers
• Human-like browser interaction utilities
• CLI for common actions (orb version, orb user-agent, orb spoof-request)
• Retry/backoff for network calls

Installation

Base package:

pip install orbweaver-tools

With Selenium support:

pip install "orbweaver-tools[selenium]"

With scraping table/proxy parsing support:

pip install "orbweaver-tools[scraping]"

Everything:

pip install "orbweaver-tools[all]"

Quick Start

from orb.config import OrbConfig
from orb.scraper.utils import spoof_request

config = OrbConfig.from_env()
response = spoof_request("https://example.com", config=config)
print(response.status_code)

CLI

orb version
orb user-agent
orb spoof-request https://example.com --no-proxy
orb proxy-test http://1.2.3.4:8080 https://1.2.3.4:8080

Environment Variables

• ORB_REQUEST_TIMEOUT (default: 15)
• ORB_MAX_RETRIES (default: 3)
• ORB_BACKOFF_SECONDS (default: 0.5)
• ORB_USE_PROXIES (true/false, default: true)
• ORB_USE_USER_AGENT (true/false, default: true)

Development

poetry install --with dev --all-extras
poetry run pytest
poetry run ruff check .
poetry run mypy
poetry run bandit -q -r orb -x orb/common/vpn,orb/common/design,orb/spinner -s B311,B404,B603,B110
poetry run pip-audit

Release

1. Bump version in pyproject.toml.
2. Update CHANGELOG.md.
3. Build and publish:

poetry build
poetry publish --build

Changelog

See CHANGELOG.md.

Documentation

Full documentation is available at https://tom3man.github.io/orb-weaver/.

You can build it locally with:

poetry install --with docs
poetry run mkdocs serve

Licence

MIT. See LICENSE.

Responsible Use

Only run scraping/automation against systems where you are authorized to do so.