jasonxtn/Argus
The Ultimate Information Gathering Toolkit observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
47/100
- Activity 56
- Release rhythm 35
- Longevity 50
Flags: no_releases
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: n/a
- age_days: 701
- days_rel: n/a
- days_push: 266
- n_releases_24m: 0
Adoption not part of the score
4082 stars · 527 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded
Argus is a Python-based all-in-one information gathering and reconnaissance toolkit with an interactive console and modular architecture. It bundles modules for DNS lookups, WHOIS, email harvesting, CMS detection, SSL analysis, web crawling, and pastebin monitoring.
Use cases
- gather osint on a domain
- find email addresses for a target website
- detect what cms a site runs
- enumerate dns and txt records for a domain
- monitor pastebins for leaked data
- crawl a website to discover directories
- analyze a target's ssl certificate configuration
When to choose
- you want a single interactive console covering many recon tasks instead of separate scripts
- you need an educational or authorized-pentest reconnaissance toolkit that runs anywhere Python runs
- you prefer a pip-installable or Dockerized tool with a module-based workflow
When to avoid
- you need a full vulnerability scanner or exploitation framework rather than passive/active recon
- you require large-scale automated scanning with API integrations and reporting pipelines
- you lack authorization to scan the target systems
Facets
cli-tool · maturity active
osint web-scraping security cli search-engine osint security penetration-testing developer-tools python cli windows cross-platform reconnaissance information-gathering dns-lookup whois email-harvesting cms-detection ssl-analysis subdomain-enumeration ethical-hacking command-line linux macos docker
1 source
- readme: https://github.com/jasonxtn/Argus · fetched 2026-08-28 · 185a5f671809
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| jasonxtn/Argus | main | 47 |
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