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theHarvester — A tool designed to be used in the early stages of a penetration test. More information: <https://git

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Problem

How to use the theHarvester command: A tool designed to be used in the early stages of a penetration test. More information: <https://github.com/laramies/theHarvester>.

Solution

theHarvester — A tool designed to be used in the early stages of a penetration test. More information: <https://github.com/laramies/theHarvester>.

Gather information on a domain using Google:

theHarvester --domain {{domain_name}} --source google

Gather information on a domain using multiple sources:

theHarvester --domain {{domain_name}} --source {{duckduckgo,bing,crtsh}}

Change the limit of results to work with:

theHarvester --domain {{domain_name}} --source {{google}} --limit {{200}}

Save the output to two files in XML and HTML format:

theHarvester --domain {{domain_name}} --source {{google}} --file {{output_file_name}}

Display help:

theHarvester --help

Code Snippets

Gather information on a domain using Google

theHarvester --domain {{domain_name}} --source google

Gather information on a domain using multiple sources

theHarvester --domain {{domain_name}} --source {{duckduckgo,bing,crtsh}}

Change the limit of results to work with

theHarvester --domain {{domain_name}} --source {{google}} --limit {{200}}

Save the output to two files in XML and HTML format

theHarvester --domain {{domain_name}} --source {{google}} --file {{output_file_name}}

Display help

theHarvester --help

Context

tldr-pages: common/theHarvester

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