Arcane Scout — API Pentesting Toolkit

About

Arcane Scout is a Chrome and Firefox DevTools extension for API traffic inspection and web application security testing. Built for penetration testers, bug bounty hunters, and security-conscious developers who need more than the Network tab.


── API INSPECTOR ──────────────────────────────────────

Capture every XHR and Fetch request in real time as you browse. Each request is logged with its method, endpoint, status code, and timestamp. Click any row to open a full detail drawer with five tabs:

• Overview — URL, status, timing, and a one-click cURL export
• Headers — all request and response headers, neatly grouped
• Payload — request body with JSON pretty-printing and form data decoding
• Response — response body with an HTML preview (sandboxed iframe), inline image, video, and audio viewers
• Replay — edit and resend any captured request directly from the panel

Beyond the request table, three additional explorer views give you deeper insight:

• Routes — a collapsible tree of all captured path segments, filterable with a single click
• Header Auditor — flags missing or misconfigured security headers (CSP, HSTS, X-Frame-Options, and more) with severity ratings
• Cookies — lists every cookie on the current domain with enable/disable checkboxes; state persists across reloads but clears when the tab is closed

Export your full session as JSON or HAR for use in other tools.


── PENTEST TOOLS ──────────────────────────────────────

A dedicated panel with nine built-in tools:

• Encoder / Decoder — encode and decode strings across Base64, URL, HTML, hex, and more
• JWT — inspect and decode JSON Web Tokens; view header, payload, and signature fields
• Payload Generator — generate fuzzing payloads for common injection categories (SQLi, XSS, path traversal, etc.)
• Custom Request — build and send arbitrary HTTP requests with full control over method, URL, headers, and body; responses render inline with the same media viewers
• JSON Tools — pretty-print, minify, and diff JSON payloads
• XOR — XOR two values with a configurable key; useful for analysing obfuscated data
• HTTP Downgrade — test whether a target enforces HTTPS or silently accepts plain HTTP connections
• HTTP Inspector — view raw response headers and body without any browser normalisation
• Vulnerability Disclosure — automatically fetches /.well-known/security.txt from the current domain (with fallback to www and the bare domain), parses all RFC 9116 fields, renders clickable contact and policy links, and shows an expiry validity badge


── PERMISSIONS ────────────────────────────────────────

Arcane Scout requests only the permissions it needs:

• storage — persists captured requests and cookie state across page reloads within the same session
• cookies — reads and toggles cookies for the inspected tab
• contextMenus — adds a right-click menu entry to open the Help & Documentation page
• host_permissions (<all_urls>) — required to capture network requests on any site you inspect and to fetch security.txt files cross-origin

No data ever leaves your browser. All processing happens locally.