The best Hetty alternatives
3 tools that do a similar job to Hetty, 3 of them open source. Each entry says what it does and who it suits, so you can pick the one that fits instead of the most famous.
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HettyA free, open-source web proxy for inspecting and testing HTTP traffic in security work.
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mitmproxy
Open source · MIT · ★ 46.6k
Interactive proxy that lets you inspect and modify HTTP and HTTPS traffic from your machine.
Best for: Developers debugging how an app talks to a backend API; Penetration testers inspecting traffic from a client application
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SpiderFoot
Open source · MIT · ★ 24.2k
Open-source tool that automatically gathers public information about a target to map its internet exposure.
Best for: Security professionals doing reconnaissance during penetration tests or red team exercises; Organizations checking what they have exposed on the internet
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ProxyPool
Open source · MIT · ★ 23.8k
Python tool that collects free proxy IPs from public sites, checks them, and serves working ones via an API.
Best for: Developers building web scrapers who want to experiment with rotating proxies; Hobbyists learning how proxy pools and scheduled crawling work
How we pick: tools in the same category that solve the same problem, projects that name each other as alternatives, and open-source projects that describe themselves as an alternative to Hetty. We don't take payment for placement.