Hotcat is a TLS-Scanner based on SSLyze.

First make sure, that you have installed Python 2.7. Over that, Hotcat requires some additional packages:

• pymongo
• requests
• tornado
• tld
• lxml

If you are using pip, just run:

$ pip install pymongo requests tornado tld lxml

Just run:

$ git clone https://github.com/hft-swp2-ws1516/crawler.git
$ cd crawler
$ python hotcat.py

For all the details on how to install, use and customize the Hotcat, see our Documentation.