# bhavsec/reconspider

🔎 Most Advanced Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) Framework for scanning IP Address, Emails, Websites, Organizations.

Repository: https://github.com/bhavsec/reconspider
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/reconspider
Language: Python
License: GPL-3.0
License Family: copyleft
Topics: osint, python, recon, framework, pentest, security, hacking, information-gathering, scanner, automated, reconnaissance, cybersecurity, pentesting
Last push: 2023-09-26T10:12:16+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 23/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 2818, "days_push": 1072, "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 2778, forks 368 (observed 2026-08-28T04:07:21.504358+00:00)

## What it is
ReconSpider is an open-source OSINT framework written in Python for scanning IP addresses, emails, websites, and organizations to gather intelligence from multiple sources. It aggregates raw data, visualizes it on a dashboard, and combines capabilities of tools like Wave, Photon, and Recon Dog for comprehensive attack surface enumeration.

## Use cases
- gather OSINT on a target domain or organization
- scan IP addresses and emails for reconnaissance
- enumerate a website's attack surface before a pentest
- automate information gathering for bug bounty hunting
- investigate cyber crime targets as an infosec researcher
- visualize reconnaissance data on a dashboard

## When to choose
- you need an all-in-one automated OSINT and reconnaissance tool
- you're a penetration tester or bug hunter doing target enumeration
- you want to aggregate data from multiple recon sources in one framework

## When to avoid
- you need a continuously updated tool - the latest release was in 2023
- you need a GUI-only workflow - it's primarily a CLI framework
- you need passive-only scanning without API keys configured

## Facets
- artifact type: cli-tool
- maturity: maintenance
- function: osint, web-scraping, security, search-engine, cli
- domain: security, osint, penetration-testing
- platform: python, cli, cross-platform
- tags: reconnaissance, information-gathering, pentesting, attack-surface-mapping, email-enumeration, ip-scanning, website-scanning, dashboard-visualization, linux

## Member repositories
- bhavsec/reconspider (main) score 23

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:21.504358+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 2026-08-30T08:16:09.932491+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/bhavsec/reconspider (fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:21.504358+00:00, sha fd5aa79ece7a)
  - registry_pypi: https://pypi.org/pypi/reconspider/json (fetched 2026-08-29T09:55:42.016030+00:00, sha b60944a201c9)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.