# Nekmo/dirhunt

Find web directories without bruteforce

Repository: https://github.com/Nekmo/dirhunt
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/dirhunt
Language: Python
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: pentesting, security, security-tools, websec, python, dirscanner, without-bruteforce, crawler
Last push: 2023-10-29T00:20:05+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 23/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3163, "days_push": 1040, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 2007, forks 270 (observed 2026-08-28T04:06:04.801169+00:00)

## What it is
Dirhunt is a Python CLI web crawler optimized for finding and analyzing web directories without brute-forcing paths. It detects 'index of' listings, fake 404 errors, blank index files used to hide content, and discovers directories via robots.txt, VirusTotal, CommonCrawl, and other external sources.

## Use cases
- find exposed directory listings on a website
- discover hidden web directories without bruteforce
- detect fake 404 pages during a security audit
- crawl a site to enumerate interesting files
- find directories using robots.txt and CommonCrawl
- audit web servers for misconfigured index pages

## When to choose
- you need fast directory discovery that minimizes requests to the server
- you want to avoid noisy brute-force scanning during pentests
- you want enrichment from external sources like VirusTotal, Wayback, and crt.sh

## When to avoid
- you need exhaustive path brute-forcing with custom wordlists (use tools like dirbuster or ffuf)
- you need an authenticated application scanner rather than a directory finder
- you require a GUI-driven scanning workflow

## Facets
- artifact type: cli-tool
- maturity: maintenance
- function: web-scraping, security, penetration-testing
- domain: security, penetration-testing, crawlers, web-development
- platform: python, cli, windows
- tags: dirscanner, websec, pentesting, directory-listing, osint, reconnaissance, linux, macos

## Member repositories
- Nekmo/dirhunt (main) score 23

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:04.801169+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 2026-08-30T03:01:22.062235+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/Nekmo/dirhunt (fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:04.801169+00:00, sha b31651466412)
  - registry_pypi: https://pypi.org/pypi/dirhunt/json (fetched 2026-08-29T10:41:17.165153+00:00, sha fd9bae9d064a)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.