# s0md3v/Photon

Incredibly fast crawler designed for OSINT.

Repository: https://github.com/s0md3v/Photon
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/photon
Language: Python
License: GPL-3.0
License Family: copyleft
Topics: crawler, spider, python, osint, information-gathering
Last push: 2026-08-07T12:50:36+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 66/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 96, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3078, "days_push": 26, "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 13146, forks 1678 (observed 2026-08-28T04:11:02.309190+00:00)

## What it is
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
- artifact type: cli-tool
- maturity: maintenance
- function: web-scraping, osint, cli, parser
- domain: osint, security, crawlers, developer-tools
- platform: python, cli, cross-platform, windows
- tags: crawler, spider, information-gathering, reconnaissance, osint-tool, linux, macos

## Member repositories
- s0md3v/Photon (main) score 66

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:11:02.309190+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 2026-08-29T17:13:29.821612+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/s0md3v/Photon (fetched 2026-08-28T04:11:02.309190+00:00, sha 84996a8351c2)
  - registry_pypi: https://pypi.org/pypi/photon/json (fetched 2026-08-29T08:08:49.601521+00:00, sha c513bef4fde4)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.