Malware researchers – here’s how to download a browser extension without installing it.
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Malware researchers – here’s how to download a browser extension without installing it.

Downloading a browser extension without immediately installing it can be useful for offline installation, security analysis, or archival purposes. While most users add extensions directly through their browser’s web store, there are several professional methods to obtain the extension package file—typically a .crx file for Chrome and Edge—without triggering installation. Below, we outline the most effective approaches.
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Scrapy Python script to crawl darkweb/onion websites.

Scrapy is a fast, open-source web crawling and data extraction framework written in Python, widely used for web scraping and mining structured data from websites. Unlike simple scraping libraries, Scrapy is a comprehensive framework that manages every aspect of the scraping process—from sending HTTP requests and handling responses to processing, cleaning, and storing the extracted data in formats such as JSON, CSV, or XML. In the example below, we have a Python scrapy script that crawls darkweb onion websites.