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https://github.com/s0md3v/photon
Incredibly fast crawler designed for OSINT.
https://github.com/s0md3v/photon
crawler information-gathering osint python spider
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Incredibly fast crawler designed for OSINT.
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/s0md3v/photon
- Owner: s0md3v
- License: gpl-3.0
- Created: 2018-03-30T19:38:22.000Z (almost 7 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2024-08-16T05:39:15.000Z (5 months ago)
- Last Synced: 2024-12-23T16:09:52.999Z (8 days ago)
- Topics: crawler, information-gathering, osint, python, spider
- Language: Python
- Homepage:
- Size: 354 KB
- Stars: 11,130
- Watchers: 323
- Forks: 1,531
- Open Issues: 51
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- Changelog: CHANGELOG.md
- License: LICENSE.md
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Photon
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### Key Features
#### Data Extraction
Photon can extract the following data while crawling:
- URLs (in-scope & out-of-scope)
- URLs with parameters (`example.com/gallery.php?id=2`)
- Intel (emails, social media accounts, amazon buckets etc.)
- Files (pdf, png, xml etc.)
- Secret keys (auth/API keys & hashes)
- JavaScript files & Endpoints present in them
- Strings matching custom regex pattern
- Subdomains & DNS related data
The extracted information is saved in an organized manner or can be [exported as json](https://github.com/s0md3v/Photon/wiki/Usage#export-formatted-result).
#### Flexible
Control timeout, delay, add seeds, exclude URLs matching a regex pattern and other cool stuff.
The extensive range of [options](https://github.com/s0md3v/Photon/wiki/Usage) provided by Photon lets you crawl the web exactly the way you want.
#### Genius
Photon's smart thread management & refined logic gives you top notch performance.
Still, crawling can be resource intensive but Photon has some tricks up it's sleeves. You can fetch URLs archived by [archive.org](https://archive.org/) to be used as seeds by using `--wayback` option.
#### Plugins
- **[wayback](https://github.com/s0md3v/Photon/wiki/Usage#use-urls-from-archiveorg-as-seeds)**
- **[dnsdumpster](https://github.com/s0md3v/Photon/wiki/Usage#dumping-dns-data)**
- **[Exporter](https://github.com/s0md3v/Photon/wiki/Usage#export-formatted-result)**
#### Docker
Photon can be launched using a lightweight Python-Alpine (103 MB) Docker image.
```bash
$ git clone https://github.com/s0md3v/Photon.git
$ cd Photon
$ docker build -t photon .
$ docker run -it --name photon photon:latest -u google.com
```
To view results, you can either head over to the local docker volume, which you can find by running `docker inspect photon` or by mounting the target loot folder:
```bash
$ docker run -it --name photon -v "$PWD:/Photon/google.com" photon:latest -u google.com
```
#### Frequent & Seamless Updates
Photon is under heavy development and updates for fixing bugs. optimizing performance & new features are being rolled regularly.
If you would like to see features and issues that are being worked on, you can do that on [Development](https://github.com/s0md3v/Photon/projects/1) project board.
Updates can be installed & checked for with the `--update` option. Photon has seamless update capabilities which means you can update Photon without losing any of your saved data.
### Contribution & License
You can contribute in following ways:
- Report bugs
- Develop plugins
- Add more "APIs" for ninja mode
- Give suggestions to make it better
- Fix issues & submit a pull request
Please read the [guidelines](https://github.com/s0md3v/Photon/wiki/Guidelines) before submitting a pull request or issue.
Do you want to have a conversation in private? Hit me up on my [twitter](https://twitter.com/s0md3v/), inbox is open :)
**Photon** is licensed under [GPL v3.0 license](https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.en.html)