How To Install colly on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install colly on Kali Linux.

What is colly

colly is:

This package contains a Colly Lightning Fast and Elegant Scraping Framework for Gophers. Colly provides a clean interface to write any kind of crawler/scraper/spider.

With Colly you can easily extract structured data from websites, which can be used for a wide range of applications, like data mining, data processing or archiving.

There are three methods to install colly on Kali Linux. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install colly Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install colly using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install colly

Install colly Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install colly using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install colly

Install colly Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install colly using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install colly

How To Uninstall colly on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the colly package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove colly

Uninstall colly And Its Dependencies

To uninstall colly and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove colly

Remove colly Configurations and Data

To remove colly configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge colly

Remove colly configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove colly configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge colly

Dependencies

colly have the following dependencies:

References

• colly website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install colly package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.