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Photon

Incredibly fast crawler designed for OSINT.

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Photon
Photon

Incredibly fast crawler designed for OSINT.

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Photon Wiki • How To Use • Compatibility • Photon Library • Contribution • Roadmap

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.

save demo

Flexible

Control timeout, delay, add seeds, exclude URLs matching a regex pattern and other cool stuff. The extensive range of options 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 to be used as seeds by using --wayback option.

Plugins

  • wayback
  • dnsdumpster
  • Exporter

Docker

Photon can be launched using a lightweight Python-Alpine (103 MB) Docker image.

root@kitploit:~
$ 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:

root@kitploit:~
$ 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 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. Use Control + Shift + m to toggle the tab key moving focus. Alternatively, use esc then tab to move to the next interactive element on the page. Attach files by dragging & dropping, selecting or pasting them. (https://www.thordata.com/?ls=github&lk=Photon)

demo

Photon Wiki • How To Use • Compatibility • Photon Library • Contribution • Roadmap

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.

save demo

Flexible

Control timeout, delay, add seeds, exclude URLs matching a regex pattern and other cool stuff. The extensive range of options 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 to be used as seeds by using --wayback option.

Plugins

  • wayback
  • dnsdumpster
  • Exporter

Docker

Photon can be launched using a lightweight Python-Alpine (103 MB) Docker image.

root@kitploit:~
$ 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:

root@kitploit:~
$ 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 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 before submitting a pull request or issue.

Do you want to have a conversation in private? Hit me up on my twitter, inbox is open :)

Photon is licensed under GPL v3.0 license

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