  [](https://lgtm.com/projects/g/laramies/theHarvester/context:python)
[](https://inventory.rawsec.ml/)
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
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/
* 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/)
* 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
* 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
* hackertarget: Online vulnerability scanners and network intelligence to help organizations - https://hackertarget.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
* linkedin_links: specific search for LinkedIn users for target domain
* netcraft: Internet Security and Data Mining - www.netcraft.com
* omnisint: Project Crobat, A Centralised Searchable Open Source Project Sonar DNS Database - https://github.com/Cgboal/SonarSearch
* otx: AlienVault Open Threat Exchange - https://otx.alienvault.com
* pentesttools: Powerful Penetration Testing Tools, Easy to Use (Needs an API key and is not free for API access) - https://pentest-tools.com/home
* 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)
* qwant: Qwant search engine - www.qwant.com
* rapiddns: DNS query tool which make querying subdomains or sites of a same IP easy! https://rapiddns.io
* 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 (Requires an API key, see below.) - www.shodanhq.com
* spyse: Web research tools for professionals (Requires an API key.) - https://spyse.com
* sublist3r: Fast subdomains enumeration tool for penetration testers - https://api.sublist3r.com/search.php?domain=example.com
* threatcrowd: Open source threat intelligence - www.threatcrowd.org
* threatminer: Data mining for threat intelligence - https://www.threatminer.org/
* trello: Search trello boards (Uses Google search.)
* twitter: Twitter accounts related to a specific domain (Uses Google search.)
* urlscan: A sandbox for the web that is a URL and website scanner - https://urlscan.io
* 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
* Screenshots: Take screenshots of subdomains that were found
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
* bing
* github
* hunter - limited to 10 on the free plan so you will need to do -l 10 switch
* intelx
* pentesttools
* projecdiscovery - invite only for now
* rocketreach
* securityTrails
* shodan
* spyse - need to have a paid account be able to use the api now
* censys - API keys are required and can be retrieved from your [Censys account](https://search.censys.io/account/api).
Install and dependencies:
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* Python 3.7+
* 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
Thanks:
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* John Matherly - Shodan project
* Ahmed Aboul Ela - subdomain names dictionaries (big and small)