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theHarvester: Reaping Emails & More
This tool isn't farming wheat, it's farming intel! Gather emails, subdomains, and hosts.

Using theHarvester

theHarvester is a tool used to gather emails, subdomains, hosts, employee names, open ports, and banners from different public sources like search engines and Shodan. theHarvester is like a diligent digital farmhand, tirelessly gathering contact info from the vast fields of the internet. It's not always quiet, though.

Basic Usage:

theharvester -d example.com -l 500 -b google
  • -d: Domain to search.
  • -l: Limit the number of search results.
  • -b: Data source (e.g., google, bing, shodan).

This tool helps automate parts of the OSINT process.