cspresso/README.md

# cspresso

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Crawl up to *N* pages of a site using a headless Chromium (via Playwright), observe what assets are loaded, and emit a **draft** Content Security Policy (CSP).

This is meant as a **starting point**. Review and tighten the resulting policy before enforcing it.

## Why "draft"?

- A crawl rarely covers all user flows (auth-only pages, A/B tests, conditional loads, etc.).
- Inline script/style handling is tricky:
  - If your pages use nonces, you must generate a **new nonce per HTML response** and insert it both in the CSP header and in the HTML tags.
  - Hashes work only if the inline content is stable *byte-for-byte*.

## Requirements

- Python 3.10+
- Playwright's Chromium browser binaries (auto-installed by this tool if missing)

## Install

If using my artifacts from the Releases page, you may wish to verify the GPG signatures with the key.

It can be found at https://mig5.net/static/mig5.asc . The fingerprint is `00AE817C24A10C2540461A9C1D7CDE0234DB458D`.

### Poetry

```bash
poetry install
```

### pip/pipx

```bash
pip install cspresso
```

### AppImage

Download the CSPresso.AppImage from the releases page, make it executable with `chmod +x`, and run it.

## Run

```bash
cspresso https://example.com --max-pages 10
```

The tool will:
1) attempt to launch Chromium headless
2) if Chromium isn't installed, it will run: `python -m playwright install chromium`
3) crawl same-origin links up to the page limit
4) print the visited URLs and a CSP header

### Avoiding an existing enforcing CSP header during analysis

**NOTE**: If you have an existing CSP header in place on your site, this could negatively influence
`cspresso`'s ability to evaluate what's on the page. Consider adding `--bypass-csp` to ignore the
current CSP (noting that if your site is compromised, doing so could put your machine at risk if
it evaluates malicious javascript/css etc).

See also the `--evaluate` option below.

## Where Playwright installs browsers

By default, this project installs Playwright browsers into a local folder: `./.pw-browsers`.
This makes installs deterministic and easy to cache in CI.

You can override with `--browsers-path` or by setting `PLAYWRIGHT_BROWSERS_PATH` yourself.

## Linux notes

If Chromium fails to start due to missing system libraries, try:

```bash
cspresso https://example.com --with-deps
```

That runs `python -m playwright install --with-deps chromium` (may require sudo depending on your environment).

## Output

Default output is a single CSP header line.

For JSON:

```bash
cspresso https://example.com --json
```


## Evaluate a proposed CSP without installing it

You can use `cspresso` to evaluate a *proposed* CSP against a site. When you do this, cspresso converts
the response from the website to implant `Content-Security-Policy-Report-Only` headers using the CSP
you supplied to `--evaluate`. If it detects any violations, it will report them and exit with code 1,
which may be useful for CSP.

**NOTE**: It is highly recommended to use `--bypass-csp` in addition to `--evaluate`, so that your
results are not influenced by any existing CSP's enforcement.

**Example:**

```bash
❯ poetry run cspresso https://mig5.net --evaluate "default-src 'none'" --bypass-csp --json
{
  "csp": "base-uri 'self'; default-src 'self'; form-action 'self'; frame-ancestors 'self'; object-src 'none'; style-src 'self' 'sha256-4Su6mBWzEIFnH4pAGMOuaeBrstwJN4Z3pq/s1Kn4/KQ=' 'unsafe-hashes'; style-src-attr 'sha256-4Su6mBWzEIFnH4pAGMOuaeBrstwJN4Z3pq/s1Kn4/KQ=' 'unsafe-hashes';",
  "directives": {},
  "evaluated_policy": "default-src 'none'",
  "nonce_detected": false,
  "notes": [
    "Detected inline attribute code (style=\"...\" and/or on*=\"...\"). Hashes for these require 'unsafe-hashes' (and modern browsers may use style-src-attr/script-src-attr)."
  ],
  "violations": [
    {
      "console": true,
      "disposition": "report",
      "documentURI": "https://mig5.net/",
      "text": "Loading the stylesheet 'https://mig5.net/style.css' violates the following Content Security Policy directive: \"default-src 'none'\". Note that 'style-src-elem' was not explicitly set, so 'default-src' is used as a fallback. The policy is report-only, so the violation has been logged but no further action has been taken.",
      "type": "info"
    },
    {
      "console": true,
      "disposition": "report",
      "documentURI": "https://mig5.net/static/mig5.asc",
      "text": "Applying inline style violates the following Content Security Policy directive 'default-src 'none''. Either the 'unsafe-inline' keyword, a hash ('sha256-4Su6mBWzEIFnH4pAGMOuaeBrstwJN4Z3pq/s1Kn4/KQ='), or a nonce ('nonce-...') is required to enable inline execution. Note that hashes do not apply to event handlers, style attributes and javascript: navigations unless the 'unsafe-hashes' keyword is present. Note also that 'style-src' was not explicitly set, so 'default-src' is used as a fallback. The policy is report-only, so the violation has been logged but no further action has been taken.",
      "type": "info"
    }
  ],
  "visited": [
    "https://mig5.net",
    "https://mig5.net/",
    "https://mig5.net/static/mig5.asc"
  ]
}

cspresso on  main [!] via 🐍 v3.13.5 took 18s
❯ echo $?
1
```

## Full usage info

```
usage: cspresso [-h] [--max-pages MAX_PAGES] [--timeout-ms TIMEOUT_MS] [--settle-ms SETTLE_MS] [--headed] [--no-install] [--with-deps] [--browsers-path BROWSERS_PATH] [--allow-blob] [--unsafe-eval]
                [--upgrade-insecure-requests] [--include-sourcemaps] [--bypass-csp] [--evaluate CSP] [--ignore-non-html] [--json]
                url

Crawl up to N pages (same-origin) with Playwright and generate a draft CSP.

positional arguments:
  url                   Start URL (e.g. https://example.com)

options:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  --max-pages MAX_PAGES
                        Maximum number of pages to visit (default: 10)
  --timeout-ms TIMEOUT_MS
                        Navigation timeout in ms (default: 20000)
  --settle-ms SETTLE_MS
                        Extra time after networkidle to allow hydration/delayed requests (default: 1500)
  --headed              Run with a visible browser window (not headless)
  --no-install          Do not auto-install Chromium if missing
  --with-deps           When installing, include Playwright OS deps (Linux). May require elevated privileges.
  --browsers-path BROWSERS_PATH
                        Directory to install/playwright browsers (default: ./.pw-browsers).
  --allow-blob          Include blob: in common directives (drafty)
  --unsafe-eval         Include 'unsafe-eval' in script-src (not recommended)
  --upgrade-insecure-requests
                        Add upgrade-insecure-requests directive
  --include-sourcemaps  Analyze JS/CSS for sourceMappingURL and add map origins to connect-src
  --bypass-csp          Strip any existing CSP/CSP-Report-Only response headers from HTML documents (useful for discovery or evaluation).
  --evaluate CSP        Inject the provided CSP string as Content-Security-Policy-Report-Only on HTML documents and exit 1 if any Report-Only violations are detected. Quote the value.
  --ignore-non-html     Ignore non-HTML pages that get crawled (which might trigger Chromium's word-wrap hash: https://stackoverflow.com/a/69838710)
  --json                Output JSON instead of a header line
```