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jasonxtn/Argus

The Ultimate Information Gathering Toolkit observed · 2026-08-28

github.com/jasonxtn/Argus · Python · MIT (permissive) 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

Full methodology

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

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Member repositories

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