Maximum Crawl-Depth and Maximum Children to Crawl in Headless Mode

[Marcel R.]

Hello,

i did some spiders in the GUI with the Zap as a preparation for an active scan. To see which sites are found and the amount of nodes. My first active scan took like forever. So I tried to minimize the URLs and the Nodes. I did that by adjusting the Maximum Crawl-Depth and Maximum Children to Crawl in the GUI. I would like to make these adjustments with the Maximum Crawl-Depth and Maximum Children to Crawl also in the headless mode in gitlab with docker. Is there a way to do that?

Thanks :)

Marcel

[Simon Bennetts]

You can set these options via the command line or via the API.

https://www.zaproxy.org/faq/how-do-you-find-out-what-key-to-use-to-set-a-config-value-on-the-command-line/

https://www.zaproxy.org/docs/api/#spideractionsetoptionmaxchildren

https://www.zaproxy.org/docs/api/#spideractionsetoptionmaxdepth

Also see this FAQ: https://www.zaproxy.org/faq/how-can-you-speed-up-scans/

Cheers,

Simon