# utkusen/urlhunter

a recon tool that allows searching on URLs that are exposed via shortener services

Repository: https://github.com/utkusen/urlhunter
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/urlhunter
Language: Go
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: recon, security, bugbounty, intelligence, osint
Last push: 2025-01-23T15:48:12+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 24/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 3, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 2111, "days_push": 587, "days_rel": 587, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 1}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1697, forks 111 (observed 2026-08-28T04:05:23.971549+00:00)

## What it is
urlhunter is a Go-based recon CLI tool that searches URLs exposed via shortener services like bit.ly and goo.gl. It downloads daily URLTeam archive collections and matches them against user-supplied keywords, keyword combinations, or regex patterns.

## Use cases
- find leaked URLs containing my company domain in shortener archives
- search shortened URLs for keywords like acme.com,admin
- match phone-number-like patterns in exposed shortener URLs with regex
- monitor daily URL shortener dumps for bug bounty recon
- download and analyze URLTeam archives for a specific date or year
- osint reconnaissance on URLs exposed via bit.ly and goo.gl

## When to choose
- you do bug bounty or OSINT recon and want to find sensitive URLs leaked through shortener services
- you need keyword or regex matching over large daily URL shortener archives
- you want a simple single-binary Go CLI that runs on Linux, macOS, or Windows

## When to avoid
- you need real-time shortener scanning rather than daily archived collections
- you want a GUI or web interface instead of a command-line tool
- your recon targets are not exposed via URL shortener services

## Facets
- artifact type: cli-tool
- maturity: active
- function: osint, search-engine, web-scraping, security
- domain: security, osint, developer-tools
- platform: windows, cli, go
- tags: recon, bugbounty, url-shorteners, intelligence, threat-intelligence, command-line, linux, macos

## Member repositories
- utkusen/urlhunter (main) score 24

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:23.971549+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 2026-08-30T03:37:52.368316+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/utkusen/urlhunter (fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:23.971549+00:00, sha 7141d2dd2842)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.