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s045pd/DarkNet_ChineseTrading
🚇暗网中文网监控爬虫(DEEPMIX)
A Python crawler that monitors a specific Chinese-language darknet marketplace, scraping listings, extracting EXIF/GPS data from images, and pushing alerts to Telegram with a Grafana dashboard. It's a research/OSINT tool aimed at Chinese security researchers tracking illicit trading activity.
Tor circuit rotation is built in rather than bolted on, which is the right call for anything hitting .onion sites. The Grafana integration gives you a real dashboard without writing one from scratch — the included grafana.sql means setup is mostly automated. EXIF/GPS extraction from scraped images is a genuinely useful forensics angle that most crawlers skip. Docker Compose deployment means the whole stack (crawler, DB, Grafana) comes up in one command.
Abandoned since mid-2023 with an open TODO list — the Socks5 proxy support and several Grafana features are unfinished. It targets a single site by design, so there's almost no reuse if the site goes down or restructures (and darknet sites do). The 'first run fails, run it again' note in the README is a red flag about the startup sequencing — that's a race condition that was never fixed. Documentation is almost entirely in Chinese despite the English README stub, which cuts off most of the potential audience.