Photon High-Speed OSINT Web Crawler and Data Extractor

Photon is a blazing-fast Python web crawler purpose-built for OSINT operations. It extracts URLs, emails, social media accounts, files, secret keys, JavaScript endpoints, and subdomains from target websites with multithreaded efficiency.

Installation

Use the upstream install or setup path that matches your environment:

• $ git clone https://github.com/s0md3v/Photon.git
• $ docker build -t photon .
• $ docker run -it --name photon photon:latest -u google.com
• $ docker run -it --name photon -v "$PWD:/Photon/google.com" photon:latest -u google.com

Requirements and caveats from upstream:

• Docker

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

Basic usage or getting-started notes:

• <a href="https://github.com/s0md3v/Photon/wiki/Usage">How To Use</a> •

• URLs with parameters (example.com/gallery.php?id=2)

• The extracted information is saved in an organized manner or can be exported as json.

• Source: https://github.com/s0md3v/Photon

• Extracted from upstream docs: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/s0md3v/Photon/HEAD/README.md

Source

• Agent Skill Exchange