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Photon

Photon is a lightning fast web crawler which extracts URLs, files, intel & endpoints from a target.

demo

Yep, I am using 100 threads and Photon won't complain about it because its in Ninja Mode 😎

Why Photon?

Not Your Regular Crawler

Crawlers are supposed to recursively extract links right? Well that's kind of boring so Photon goes beyond that. It extracts the following information:

  • 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.)
  • JavaScript files & Endpoints present in them

The extracted information is saved in an organized manner.
save demo

Intelligent Multi-Threading

Here's a secret, most of the tools floating on the internet aren't properly multi-threaded even if they are supposed to. They either supply a list of items to threads which results in multiple threads accessing the same item or they simply put a thread lock and end up rendering multi-threading useless.
But Photon is different or should I say "genius"? Take a look at this and decide yourself.

Ninja Mode

In Ninja Mode, 3 online services are used to make requests to the target on your behalf.
So basically, now you have 4 clients making requests to the same server simultaneously which gives you a speed boost, minimizes the risk of connection reset as well as delays requests from a single client.
Here's a comparison generated by Quark where the lines represent threads:

ninja demo

Usage

-u --url

Specifies the URL to crawl.

python photon.py -u http://example.com

-l --level

It specifies how much deeper should photon crawl.

python photon.py -u http://example.com -l 3

Default Value: 2

-d --delay

It specifies the delay between requests.

python photon.py -u http://example.com -d 1

Default Value: 0

-t --threads

The number of threads to use.

python photon.py -u http://example.com -t 10

Default Value: 2

Note: The optimal number of threads depends on your connection speed as well as nature of the target server. If you have a decent network connection and the server doesn't have any rate limiting in place, you can use up to 100 threads.

-c --cookie

Cookie to send.

python photon.py -u http://example.com -c "PHPSSID=821b32d21"

-n --ninja

Toggles Ninja Mode on/off.

python photon.py -u http://example.com --ninja

Default Value: False

-s --seeds

Lets you add custom seeds, sperated by commas.

python photon -u http://example.com -s "http://example.com/portals.html,http://example.com/blog/2018"

Contribution & License

Apart from reporting bugs and stuff, please help me add more "APIs" to make the Ninja Mode more powerful.
Photon is licensed under GPL v3.0 license.

 

Sursa: https://github.com/s0md3v/Photon

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