# megadose/OnionSearch

OnionSearch is a script that scrapes urls on different .onion search engines.

Repository: https://github.com/megadose/OnionSearch
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/onionsearch
Language: Python
License: GPL-3.0
License Family: copyleft
Topics: information-gathering, osint, osint-tools, open-source-intelligence, python, search-engines, onion, pypi, ahmia, deeplink, phobos, scrapes-urls
Last push: 2024-08-08T11:31:59+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 32/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 2359, "days_push": 755, "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 1777, forks 226 (observed 2026-08-28T04:05:34.708023+00:00)

## What it is
OnionSearch is a Python 3 CLI script that scrapes URLs from multiple .onion search engines such as Ahmia, Phobos, and Deeplink. It supports Tor proxying, engine selection/exclusion, CSV field output, and parallel scraping via multiprocessing.

## Use cases
- scrape urls from onion search engines
- osint research on dark web sites
- search tor hidden services from the command line
- collect .onion links across multiple dark web search engines
- export onion search results to csv
- run dark web searches through a tor proxy

## When to choose
- you need to query many .onion search engines at once from a script or terminal
- you want a lightweight pip-installable OSINT tool with CSV output and multiprocessing

## When to avoid
- you need a GUI or a general-purpose web crawler
- you cannot run a Tor proxy locally
- you need actively maintained support for specific engines that frequently change

## Facets
- artifact type: cli-tool
- maturity: maintenance
- function: web-scraping, search-engine, cli
- domain: osint, security
- platform: python, cli, windows
- tags: tor, dark-web, onion-search-engines, osint-tools, information-gathering, multiprocessing, command-line, search, linux, macos

## Member repositories
- megadose/OnionSearch (main) score 32

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:34.708023+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 2026-08-30T03:25:13.690251+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/megadose/OnionSearch (fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:34.708023+00:00, sha 8550db40d36d)
  - registry_pypi: https://pypi.org/pypi/onionsearch/json (fetched 2026-08-29T11:03:34.413464+00:00, sha 19e2fcadd0c4)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.