winsandwoesofspidergo

August 30, 2025

🚀 Today’s Wins (and Woes) Building SpiderGo 🚀

Some skills I’ve learned—or painfully reinforced—while building SpiderGo:
Quick Context: SpiderGo is a Golang-based cybersecurity web crawler that automates the recon portion of bug bounty hunting. It’s designed for Bug Bounty Hunters, Red & Blue Teams, PenTesters, and other cyber pros with proper authorization. In short: don’t be a jerk and crawl stuff you don’t have permission for.

1️⃣ Golang
Before SpiderGo (and PayloadGo), my toolkit was strictly C++, C, Ruby, Python, Batch, and JS. Enter Go:

Concurrency without tears: True goroutines & channels—Python async, I see you, but Go really flexes here.

Blazing speed: The performance almost makes up for all the bugs, failed library imports, and existential dread from countless broken builds. Almost.

2️⃣ Patience
C++ taught me patience, sure. But Go? Go is a monk. Staring at a terminal full of errors for hours—or even days—does… things… to a human.

3️⃣ URL Parsing & JSON Formatting

I knew these concepts, but Go forced me to relearn them the hard way—and somehow, I survived.

There’s more I’ve learned, and even more I’ve failed at, but we’d need the length of the Bible to list it all.

Nearing the end of this project, I’m genuinely proud. SpiderGo is:
✅ Fast
✅ Easy to use
✅ Most importantly… it actually works!

What’s next?
UI facelift is overdue. It’ll get a proper glow-up soon.
Follow my journey (and my questionable sanity) here: https://cysectools.com/

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