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PyreCrawl

One command gives any AI agent the whole web. Scrape, extract, crawl, map, and search — self-hosted, no API keys, no rate limits, no subscription.

Compatibility: Not stated.

Grade B

Minor issues only, no Medium or High. Worth a quick look at the findings below before installing.

Graded by PlugVetRubric v2

Not a guarantee. A hygiene check of the source at the commit shown, not a security audit.

Rescanned at commit 657ad6576613, unchanged since the check below.

NETWORK_NO_FIXED_HOST PERMISSION_SHELL_DECLARED INSTALL_DOCUMENTED_INSTALLER OBFUSCATION_FILE_OVER_READ_CAP

Why this grade

  • NETWORK_NO_FIXED_HOST Low

    Makes a network call whose host is not written as a fixed address.

    scripts/stats.py, line 27 with urllib.request.urlopen(req, timeout=15) as resp:

  • PERMISSION_SHELL_DECLARED Note

    Runs shell commands, and the manifest or description says so.

    scripts/probe_stdio.py, line 12 proc = subprocess.Popen(

  • INSTALL_DOCUMENTED_INSTALLER Note

    Documentation shows an installer that pipes a download into a shell.

    README.md, line 76 curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh

  • OBFUSCATION_FILE_OVER_READ_CAP Note

    A file was over the read cap and was not fully read.

    uv.lock, line 1 version = 1

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What was checked

Plain notes from the hygiene checks.

  • Permissions

    Note

    requests shell access. The manifest names this permission.

    PERMISSION_SHELL_DECLARED

    scripts/probe_stdio.py, line 12

    proc = subprocess.Popen(

    scripts/probe_v2.py, line 19

    proc = subprocess.Popen(

    scripts/stats.py, line 56

    raw = subprocess.run(

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    scripts/test_tempmail_mcp.py, line 16

    proc = subprocess.Popen(

    src/pyrecrawl/cli.py, line 280

    rc = subprocess.call(s)

    src/pyrecrawl/updater.py, line 110

    rc = subprocess.call([uv, "tool", "upgrade", "pyrecrawl"])

  • Install and update

    Note

    README documents an installer that pipes a download into a shell.

    INSTALL_DOCUMENTED_INSTALLER

    README.md, line 76

    curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh

  • Network

    Concern

    can reach a host that is not written as a fixed address.

    NETWORK_NO_FIXED_HOST

    scripts/stats.py, line 27

    with urllib.request.urlopen(req, timeout=15) as resp:

    src/pyrecrawl/engines.py, line 642

    return StealthyFetcher.fetch(url, **kwargs)

    src/pyrecrawl/engines.py, line 917

    return _SF2.fetch(url, headless=True, network_idle=True, timeout=60000)

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    src/pyrecrawl/engines.py, line 1498

    limit: how many search results to fetch (DDG free tier works fine

    src/pyrecrawl/engines.py, line 1776

    with urllib.request.urlopen(req, timeout=timeout) as resp:

    src/pyrecrawl/telemetry.py, line 96

    with urllib.request.urlopen(req, timeout=3) as resp:

    src/pyrecrawl/updater.py, line 37

    with urllib.request.urlopen(req, timeout=timeout) as resp:

    workers/telemetry/src/worker.js, line 13

    async fetch(request, env) {

    workers/telemetry/src/worker.js, line 78

    const r = await fetch("https://pypistats.org/api/packages/pyrecrawl/overall", {

  • Secrets

    Pass

    No read of a credential file or secret environment variable found.

  • Agent instructions

    Pass

    No instruction to ignore earlier instructions or to hide a step.

  • Obfuscation

    Note

    a file was over the read cap and was not fully read.

    OBFUSCATION_FILE_OVER_READ_CAP

    uv.lock, line 1

    version = 1

  • Licence

    Pass

    A licence file is present (LICENSE).

  • Maintainer activity

    Pass

    The latest commit is within the last 365 days.

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Note

Hygiene check of commit 657ad6576613. requests shell access. The manifest names this permission. README documents an installer that pipes a download into a shell. can reach a host that is not written as a fixed address. a file was over the read cap and was not fully read.

Date and source

Date checked:

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Commit graded: 657ad65766130bb7958e9bc5344fc5f0696fabe5

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