# jasonxtn/Argus

The Ultimate Information Gathering Toolkit

Repository: https://github.com/jasonxtn/Argus
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/argus
Language: Python
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: cms-detection, directory-finder, dns-lookup, information-gathering, osint, recon-tools, reconnaissance, server-info, ssl-analitcs, txt-records, virustotal, web-crawler, whois-lookup, pastebin-monitoring, email-harvester
Last push: 2025-12-10T10:30:05+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 47/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 56, release rhythm 35, longevity 50
- inputs: {"age_days": 701, "days_push": 266, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 4082, forks 527 (observed 2026-08-28T04:08:34.428856+00:00)

## What it is
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
- artifact type: cli-tool
- maturity: active
- function: osint, web-scraping, security, cli, search-engine
- domain: osint, security, penetration-testing, developer-tools
- platform: python, cli, windows, cross-platform
- tags: reconnaissance, information-gathering, dns-lookup, whois, email-harvesting, cms-detection, ssl-analysis, subdomain-enumeration, ethical-hacking, command-line, linux, macos, docker

## Member repositories
- jasonxtn/Argus (main) score 47

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:34.428856+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T18:23:25.244874+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/jasonxtn/Argus (fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:34.428856+00:00, sha 185a5f671809)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.