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  [](https://lgtm.com/projects/g/laramies/theHarvester/context:python)
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[](https://inventory.rawsec.ml/)
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What is this?
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theHarvester is a very simple to use, yet powerful and effective tool designed to be used in the early stages of a< br >
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penetration test or red team engagement. Use it for open source intelligence (OSINT) gathering to help determine a< br >
company's external threat landscape on the internet. The tool gathers emails, names, subdomains, IPs and URLs using< br >
multiple public data sources that include:
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Passive:
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* anubis: Anubis-DB - https://github.com/jonluca/anubis
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* baidu: Baidu search engine - www.baidu.com
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* bing: Microsoft search engine - www.bing.com
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* bingapi: Microsoft search engine, through the API (Requires an API key, see below.)
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* bufferoverun: Uses data from Rapid7's Project Sonar - www.rapid7.com/research/project-sonar/
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* censys: [Censys search engine ](https://search.censys.io/ ), will use certificates searches to enumerate subdomains and gather emails (Requires an API key, see below.) - [censys.io ](https://censys.io/ )
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* certspotter: Cert Spotter monitors Certificate Transparency logs - https://sslmate.com/certspotter/
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* crtsh: Comodo Certificate search - https://crt.sh
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* dnsdumpster: DNSdumpster search engine - https://dnsdumpster.com
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* duckduckgo: DuckDuckGo search engine - www.duckduckgo.com
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* github-code: GitHub code search engine (Requires a GitHub Personal Access Token, see below.) - www.github.com
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* google: Google search engine (Optional Google dorking.) - www.google.com
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* hackertarget: Online vulnerability scanners and network intelligence to help organizations - https://hackertarget.com
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* hunter: Hunter search engine (Requires an API key, see below.) - www.hunter.io
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* intelx: Intelx search engine (Requires an API key, see below.) - www.intelx.io
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* linkedin: Google search engine, specific search for LinkedIn users - www.linkedin.com
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* linkedin_links: specific search for LinkedIn users for target domain
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* netcraft: Internet Security and Data Mining - www.netcraft.com
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* omnisint: Project Crobat, A Centralised Searchable Open Source Project Sonar DNS Database - https://github.com/Cgboal/SonarSearch
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* otx: AlienVault Open Threat Exchange - https://otx.alienvault.com
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* pentesttools: Powerful Penetration Testing Tools, Easy to Use (Needs an API key and is not free for API access) - https://pentest-tools.com/home
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* projecdiscovery: We actively collect and maintain internet-wide assets data,
to enhance research and analyse changes around DNS for better insights - https://chaos.projectdiscovery.io
(Requires an API key)
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* qwant: Qwant search engine - www.qwant.com
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* rapiddns: DNS query tool which make querying subdomains or sites of a same IP easy! https://rapiddns.io
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* rocketreach: Access real-time verified personal/professional emails, phone numbers, social media links. - https://rocketreach.co
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* securityTrails: Security Trails search engine, the world's largest repository of historical DNS data< br >
(Requires an API key, see below.) - www.securitytrails.com
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* shodan: Shodan search engine, will search for ports and banners from discovered hosts (Requires an API key, see below.) - www.shodanhq.com
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* spyse: [Spyse is a search engine ](https://spyse.com/ ) built for a quick cyber intelligence of IT infrastructures, networks, and even the smallest parts of the internet. (Requires an API key, see below.) - [spyse.com ](https://spyse.com )
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* sublist3r: Fast subdomains enumeration tool for penetration testers - https://api.sublist3r.com/search.php?domain=example.com
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* threatcrowd: Open source threat intelligence - www.threatcrowd.org
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* threatminer: Data mining for threat intelligence - https://www.threatminer.org/
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* trello: Search trello boards (Uses Google search.)
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* twitter: Twitter accounts related to a specific domain (Uses Google search.)
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* urlscan: A sandbox for the web that is a URL and website scanner - https://urlscan.io
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* vhost: Bing virtual hosts search
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* virustotal: virustotal.com domain search
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* yahoo: Yahoo search engine
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* zoomeye: China version of shodan - https://www.zoomeye.org
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Active:
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* DNS brute force: dictionary brute force enumeration
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* Screenshots: Take screenshots of subdomains that were found
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Modules that require an API key:
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Documentation to setup API keys can be found at - https://github.com/laramies/theHarvester/wiki/Installation#api-keys
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* binaryedge
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* bing
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* github
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* hunter - limited to 10 on the free plan so you will need to do -l 10 switch
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* intelx
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* pentesttools
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* projecdiscovery - invite only for now
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* rocketreach
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* securityTrails
* shodan
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* spyse - need to have a paid account be able to use the api now
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* censys - API keys are required and can be retrieved from your [Censys account ](https://search.censys.io/account/api ).
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* Zoomeye
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Install and dependencies:
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* Python 3.7+
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* https://github.com/laramies/theHarvester/wiki/Installation
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Comments, bugs and requests:
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* [](https://twitter.com/laramies) Christian Martorella @laramies
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cmartorella@edge-security.com
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* [](https://twitter.com/NotoriousRebel1) Matthew Brown @NotoriousRebel1
* [](https://twitter.com/jay_townsend1) Jay "L1ghtn1ng" Townsend @jay_townsend1
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Main contributors:
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* [](https://twitter.com/NotoriousRebel1) Matthew Brown @NotoriousRebel1
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* [](https://twitter.com/jay_townsend1) Jay "L1ghtn1ng" Townsend @jay_townsend1
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* [](https://twitter.com/discoverscripts) Lee Baird @discoverscripts
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Thanks:
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* John Matherly - Shodan project
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* Ahmed Aboul Ela - subdomain names dictionaries (big and small)
