theHarvester, Email, User names and Subdomain/Hostnames finder.


theHarvester is a tool for gathering e-mail accounts, user names and hostnames/subdomains from different public sources. It's a really simple tool, but very effective.

The sources supported are:
  • Google - emails,subdomains/hostnames
  • Bing search - emails, subdomains/hostnames
  • Pgp servers - emails, subdomains/hostnames
  • Linkedin - user names
Some examples:

Searching emails accounts for the domain microsoft.com, it will work with the first 500 google results: 
./theharvester.py -d microsoft.com -l 500 -b google
Searching emails accounts for the domain microsoft.com in a PGP server, here it's not necessary to specify the limit. 
./theharvester.py -d microsoft.com -b pgp
Searching for user names that works in the company microsoft, we use google as search engine, so we need to specify the limit of results we want to use: 
./theharvester.py -d microsoft -l 200 -b linkedin

Downloads

  • theHarvester 1.6 - Tar (11/05/2010)

Changelog

theHarvester 1 .6

  • New scraper for Google and Bing
  • Added subdomain and hostnames gathering
  • Added option to start in the selected page
  • Fixed Bing and Google scrapers, thanks to Didier Stevens
  • Thanks to everyone that sent me feedback for the tool!

theHarvester 1.5c

  • Fixed Bing and Google scrapers, thanks to Didier Stevens

theHarvester 1.5b

  • Fixed Bing and Linkedin search engines.

theHarvester 1.4

  • Fixed msn and yahoo search engines.
  • Valid User-Agent
  • Linkedin support
  • Pgp servers support