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kronikier\n\n**🗄️ Get historical contacts for a website from web.archive.org snapshots**\n\n---\n\n_OSINT tool that mines **historical** contacts (email, phone numbers) for a\ndomain out of **web.archive.org** snapshots._\n\n_Built for investigations where the current site no longer shows contact details (or shows\ndifferent ones) but earlier versions are preserved in the archive._\n\n[![asciicast](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/bc24bdd0-f483-41f5-82ae-cb0418f72389)](https://asciinema.org/a/kZErdPENZJlnSEjA)\n\n**WEB VERSION:** [kronikier-web](https://github.com/soxoj/kronikier-web).\n\n**Full docs:** [docs/USAGE.md](docs/USAGE.md) ·\n[docs/ARCHITECTURE.md](docs/ARCHITECTURE.md).\n\n---\n\n## Quick start\n\n```bash\npip install -e .\n```\n\n```bash\n# Default scan: 5-minute timeout, contact-URL filter on.\nkronikier theranos.com\n\n# How did one specific page evolve across snapshots?\nkronikier --single-url https://www.theranos.com/contact-us\n\n# Long-running thorough scan, every URL the host has.\nkronikier wirecard.com --exhaustive\n\n# Batch a list of targets.\nkronikier --targets-file targets.txt\n```\n\nThe first ever invocation runs a one-time latency calibration (~3-5 s,\ncached for 14 days). Every run writes a CSV next to the current\ndirectory and prints a summary table to the terminal:\n\n```\nContact                       First seen   Last seen\n─────────────────────────     ──────────   ──────────\nemail   info@theranos.com     2014-02-08   2015-02-24\nphone   +1 855-843-7200       2014-09-02   2015-11-18\n\nCSV saved: ./theranos.com_20260529_200437.csv\n[*] Cache: 3 hit / 0 miss (saved 3 fetches on web.archive.org)\n```\n\nThat's it for getting started. See [docs/USAGE.md](docs/USAGE.md) for the\nfull CLI reference, batch-input format, snapshot-cache controls, and\ntroubleshooting.\n\n---\n\n## What you get\n\nEvery run produces:\n\n- **A monospace summary table** on the terminal — first/last seen\n  timestamps per contact, ordered chronologically.\n- **A CSV file** with nine columns:\n  `kind, value, value_human, value_raw, first_seen, last_seen,\n  sightings_count, first_archive_url, last_archive_url`. UTF-8 with BOM\n  so Excel opens non-ASCII content cleanly.\n- **A live contact feed** in the terminal (`+ email …`, `+ phone …`) as\n  results stream in. `-v` adds the snapshot date + URL beneath each one.\n\n\u003e **Phone numbers are reconstructed, not copied.** The `value` column is\n\u003e a normalised E.164 form produced by libphonenumber from whatever\n\u003e digits and punctuation appeared on the page — there's a guess about\n\u003e country code, trunk prefix, and grouping involved. Most of the time\n\u003e it's right, but on weird formats (truncated numbers, ambiguous\n\u003e regions, OCR-style typos) it can land on a plausible-but-wrong number.\n\u003e **If a phone in the `value` column looks off, always cross-check\n\u003e `value_raw` to see exactly how it appeared on the page** — that's the\n\u003e ground truth.\n\n`--json` switches the table to a machine-readable JSON object on stdout;\nCSV is still written and the path is reported on stderr.\n\nEmpty results print `No contacts found.` and skip the CSV entirely.\n\n---\n\n## When this is the right tool\n\nThe Wayback Machine is often the only source of authoritative owner\ninformation when a site:\n\n- is dead;\n- was re-registered and the contacts scrubbed;\n- changed editorial team and removed the previous people in charge;\n- surfaced in a dubious story and the phone numbers vanished overnight.\n\nFor everything else (a live site whose contacts page works), just open\nthe live site.\n\n---\n\n## Snapshot cache\n\nWayback snapshots are immutable, so rerunning the same scan can answer\nwithout spending more IA bytes. The CLI keeps an on-disk cache, **on by\ndefault**, at `~/.cache/kronikier/snapshots/`. One HTML file per\nsnapshot, browsable on disk, grouped by host.\n\nDisable with `--no-cache`. Wipe with `--clear-cache`.\n\nFull layout, env-var override, and best-effort semantics are in\n[docs/USAGE.md](docs/USAGE.md#snapshot-cache).\n\n---\n\n## Rate limits and ethics\n\n- Default `--rate 4` (4 req/sec to wayback) is polite. Don't raise it\n  without a reason — the archive serves everyone.\n- All data extracted is already public. The tool doesn't bypass\n  paywalls, crawler blocks, or any access control.\n- Contacts in the archive may belong to people no longer associated\n  with the domain. The timeline columns (`first_seen` / `last_seen`)\n  are there so you can judge what was current when.\n- Use only within the scope of legal investigations.\n\n---\n\n## OSINT precedents\n\nThe \"recover contacts from archives\" technique is documented across\nmany published investigations. A few:\n\n- **John Carreyrou / WSJ — Theranos.** Material from archived\n  `theranos.com` used as evidence after the company shut down.\n- **Brian Krebs (KrebsOnSecurity).** Multiple investigations of malware\n  and fraud site operators identified via archived contact emails on\n  early versions of their landing pages.\n- **OCCRP shell-company investigations.** \"Contact\" pages of shell\n  sites routinely name the human beneficiary before being scrubbed.\n- **Bellingcat.** Applied the same technique across multiple\n  investigations.\n\nThe end-to-end test suite (`pytest -m e2e`) hits the live wayback for\n`theranos.com` and `enron.com` and asserts that the canonical contacts\nof both still surface — the OSINT use case is the regression test.\n\n## SOWEL classification\n\nOSINT techniques used:\n  - [SOTL-7.1. Check Archives](https://sowel.soxoj.com/check-archives)\n  - [SOTL-22.5. Extract Contacts From Page Text](https://sowel.soxoj.com/page-text-contacts)\n\n## License\n\n[MIT](LICENSE).\n","project_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/projects/github.com%2Fsoxoj%2Fkronikier","html_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/projects/github.com%2Fsoxoj%2Fkronikier","lists_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/projects/github.com%2Fsoxoj%2Fkronikier/lists"}