
[](https://travis-ci.com/laramies/theHarvester) [](https://lgtm.com/projects/g/laramies/theHarvester/context:python)
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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 statges of a
penetration test or red team engagement. Use it for open source intelligence (OSINT) gathering to help determine a
company's external threat landscape on the internet. The tool gathers emails, names, subdomains, IPs and URLs using
multiple public data sources that include:
Passive:
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* baidu: Baidu search engine - www.baidu.com
* bing: Microsoft search engine - www.bing.com
* bingapi: Microsoft search engine, through the API (Requires an API key, see below.)
* Bufferoverun: Uses data from Rapid7's Project Sonar - www.rapid7.com/research/project-sonar/
* CertSpotter: Cert Spotter monitors Certificate Transparency logs - https://sslmate.com/certspotter/
* crtsh: Comodo Certificate search - https://crt.sh/
* dnsdumpster: DNSdumpster search engine - https://dnsdumpster.com/
* dogpile: Dogpile search engine - www.dogpile.com
* duckduckgo: DuckDuckGo search engine - www.duckduckgo.com
* Exalead: a Meta search engine - www.exalead.com/search
* github-code: GitHub code search engine (Requires a GitHub Personal Access Token, see below.) - www.github.com
* google: Google search engine (Optional Google dorking.) - www.google.com
* hunter: Hunter search engine (Requires an API key, see below.) - www.hunter.io
* intelx: Intelx search engine (Requires an API key, see below.) - www.intelx.io
* linkedin: Google search engine, specific search for LinkedIn users - www.linkedin.com
* netcraft: Internet Security and Data Mining - www.netcraft.com
* otx: AlienVault Open Threat Exchange - otx.alienvault.com
* securityTrails: Security Trails search engine, the world's largest repository of historical DNS data
(Requires an API key, see below.) - www.securitytrails.com
* shodan: Shodan search engine, will search for ports and banners from discovered hosts - www.shodanhq.com
* Spyse: Web research tools for professionals (Requires an API key.) - spyse.com
* Suip: Web research tools that can take over 10 minutes to run, but worth the wait - suip.biz
* threatcrowd: Open source threat intelligence - www.threatcrowd.org
* trello: Search trello boards (Uses Google search.)
* twitter: Twitter accounts related to a specific domain (Uses Google search.)
* vhost: Bing virtual hosts search
* virustotal: virustotal.com domain search
* yahoo: Yahoo search engine
Active:
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* DNS brute force: dictionary brute force enumeration
Modules that require an API key:
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Add your keys to api-keys.yaml
* bing
* github
* hunter
* intelx
* securityTrails
* shodan
* spyse
Install and dependencies:
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* Python 3.7+
* python3 -m pip install pipenv
* https://github.com/laramies/theHarvester/wiki/Installation
Comments, bugs and requests:
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* [](https://twitter.com/laramies) Christian Martorella @laramies
cmartorella@edge-security.com
* [](https://twitter.com/NotoriousRebel1) Matthew Brown @NotoriousRebel1
* [](https://twitter.com/jay_townsend1) Jay "L1ghtn1ng" Townsend @jay_townsend1
Main contributors:
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* [](https://twitter.com/NotoriousRebel1) Matthew Brown @NotoriousRebel1
* [](https://twitter.com/jay_townsend1) Jay "L1ghtn1ng" Townsend @jay_townsend1
* [](https://twitter.com/discoverscripts) Lee Baird @discoverscripts
* [](https://www.linkedin.com/in/janoszold/) Janos Zold
Thanks:
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* John Matherly - Shodan project
* Ahmed Aboul Ela - subdomain names dictionaries (big and small)