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Incredibly fast crawler designed for OSINT.

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  <a href="https://github.com/s0md3v/Photon"><img src="https://image.ibb.co/h5OZAK/photonsmall.png" alt="Photon"></a>
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  Photon
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<h4 align="center">Incredibly fast crawler designed for OSINT.</h4>

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<p align="center">
  <a href="https://github.com/s0md3v/Photon/wiki">Photon Wiki</a> •
  <a href="https://github.com/s0md3v/Photon/wiki/Usage">How To Use</a> •
  <a href="https://github.com/s0md3v/Photon/wiki/Compatibility-&-Dependencies">Compatibility</a> •
  <a href="https://github.com/s0md3v/Photon/wiki/Photon-Library">Photon Library</a> •
  <a href="#contribution--license">Contribution</a> •
  <a href="https://github.com/s0md3v/Photon/projects/1">Roadmap</a>
</p>

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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).

![save demo](https://image.ibb.co/dS1BqK/carbon_2.png)

#### 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.
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](https://image.ibb.co/kQSUcz/demo.png)

<p align="center">
  <a href="https://github.com/s0md3v/Photon/wiki">Photon Wiki</a> •
  <a href="https://github.com/s0md3v/Photon/wiki/Usage">How To Use</a> •
  <a href="https://github.com/s0md3v/Photon/wiki/Compatibility-&-Dependencies">Compatibility</a> •
  <a href="https://github.com/s0md3v/Photon/wiki/Photon-Library">Photon Library</a> •
  <a href="#contribution--license">Contribution</a> •
  <a href="https://github.com/s0md3v/Photon/projects/1">Roadmap</a>
</p>

### 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).

![save demo](https://image.ibb.co/dS1BqK/carbon_2.png)

#### 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)