lanmaster53/recon-ng

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5871 stars · 913 forks observed · 2026-08-28

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

Recon-ng is a full-featured, modular reconnaissance framework for conducting web-based open source intelligence (OSINT) gathering. It offers a Metasploit-like console experience, letting users automate harvesting information from open sources via community-contributed modules.

Use cases

• gather OSINT on a target domain from open sources
• automate web-based reconnaissance for a pentest
• enumerate subdomains and harvest contacts and credentials leaks
• build custom Python recon modules
• run reconnaissance workflows from an interactive console

When to choose

• you need structured, modular web-based OSINT collection
• you want a Metasploit-style workflow for reconnaissance
• you want to extend recon capabilities with custom Python modules

When to avoid

• you need exploitation or post-exploitation tooling (use Metasploit)
• you need social engineering tooling (use SET)
• you need active network scanning rather than open-source data harvesting

Facets

framework · maturity active

osint web-scraping security cli developer-tools security osint penetration-testing python windows cli reconnaissance osint-framework metasploit-like modular web-based-recon command-line linux macos

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