Merge pull request #1391 from zrquan/async

Support asynchronous mode

.github/workflows/ci.yml

@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ jobs:
     strategy:
       fail-fast: false
       matrix:
-        python-version: [3.7, 3.9]
+        python-version: [3.8, 3.9]
         os: ['ubuntu-latest', 'windows-latest']
 
     steps:

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
 - Support non-default network interface
 - Remove unused dependencies (urllib3, cryptography, cffi, idna, chardet)
 - Load targets from a Nmap XML report
+- Added --async option to enable asynchronous mode (use coroutines instead of threads)
 
 ## [0.4.3] - October 2nd, 2022
 - Automatically detect the URI scheme (`http` or `https`) if no scheme is provided

README.md

@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ Table of Contents
 Installation & Usage
 ------------
 
-**Requirement: python 3.7 or higher**
+**Requirement: python 3.8 or higher**
 
 Choose one of these installation options:
 

dirsearch.py

@@ -19,19 +19,22 @@
 #  Author: Mauro Soria
 
 import sys
-
-from pkg_resources import DistributionNotFound, VersionConflict
+import warnings
 
 from lib.core.data import options
 from lib.core.exceptions import FailedDependenciesInstallation
 from lib.core.installation import check_dependencies, install_dependencies
 from lib.core.settings import OPTIONS_FILE
 from lib.parse.config import ConfigParser
 
-if sys.version_info < (3, 7):
-    sys.stderr.write("Sorry, dirsearch requires Python 3.7 or higher\n")
+if sys.version_info < (3, 8):
+    sys.stderr.write("Sorry, dirsearch requires Python 3.8 or higher\n")
     sys.exit(1)
 
+# silence pkg_resources deprecation warnings
+warnings.simplefilter("ignore", DeprecationWarning)
+from pkg_resources import DistributionNotFound, VersionConflict  # noqa: E402
+
 
 def main():
     config = ConfigParser()