s0md3v/Photon

Health v2 · maintenance only

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13146 stars · 1678 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

Photon is a fast Python-based web crawler designed for OSINT (open-source intelligence) tasks. It extracts URLs, emails, social media accounts, files, API keys, JavaScript endpoints, and subdomains from websites and exports results in an organized format or JSON.

Use cases

• crawl a website to extract emails and social media accounts
• find secret API keys and hashes exposed on a site
• discover subdomains and DNS data for a target domain
• extract URLs and JavaScript endpoints during reconnaissance
• export crawled site data as JSON for further analysis
• gather intel on a target for a penetration test

When to choose

• you need fast OSINT-focused crawling with intel extraction built in
• you want a simple Python CLI crawler with regex-based custom extraction
• you need organized export of URLs, files, and secrets from a website

When to avoid

• you need a general-purpose production web scraping framework with rendering or proxies
• you need a full vulnerability scanner rather than a data extraction crawler
• you require JavaScript-rendered page crawling (Photon parses static content)

Facets

cli-tool · maturity maintenance

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