theHarvester: A Python repository from Hack the Box

What is this?

theHarvester is a very simple to use, yet powerful and effective tool designed to be used in the early stages of a
penetration test or red team engagement. Use it for open source intelligence (OSINT) gathering to help determine a
company's external threat landscape on the internet. The tool gathers emails, names, subdomains, IPs and URLs using
multiple public data sources that include:

Passive:

baidu: Baidu search engine - www.baidu.com
bing: Microsoft search engine - www.bing.com
bingapi: Microsoft search engine, through the API (Requires an API key, see below.)
bufferoverun: Uses data from Rapid7's Project Sonar - www.rapid7.com/research/project-sonar/
certspotter: Cert Spotter monitors Certificate Transparency logs - https://sslmate.com/certspotter/
crtsh: Comodo Certificate search - https://crt.sh
dnsdumpster: DNSdumpster search engine - https://dnsdumpster.com
dogpile: Dogpile search engine - www.dogpile.com
duckduckgo: DuckDuckGo search engine - www.duckduckgo.com
exalead: a Meta search engine - www.exalead.com/search
github-code: GitHub code search engine (Requires a GitHub Personal Access Token, see below.) - www.github.com
google: Google search engine (Optional Google dorking.) - www.google.com
hackertarget: Online vulnerability scanners and network intelligence to help organizations - https://hackertarget.com
hunter: Hunter search engine (Requires an API key, see below.) - www.hunter.io
intelx: Intelx search engine (Requires an API key, see below.) - www.intelx.io
linkedin: Google search engine, specific search for LinkedIn users - www.linkedin.com
linkedin_links:
netcraft: Internet Security and Data Mining - www.netcraft.com
otx: AlienVault Open Threat Exchange - https://otx.alienvault.com
pentesttools: Powerful Penetration Testing Tools, Easy to Use (Needs an API key and is not free for API access) - https://pentest-tools.com/home
qwant: Qwant search engine - www.qwant.com
rapiddns: DNS query tool which make querying subdomains or sites of a same IP easy! https://rapiddns.io
securityTrails: Security Trails search engine, the world's largest repository of historical DNS data
(Requires an API key, see below.) - www.securitytrails.com
shodan: Shodan search engine, will search for ports and banners from discovered hosts - www.shodanhq.com
spyse: Web research tools for professionals (Requires an API key.) - https://spyse.com
sublist3r: Fast subdomains enumeration tool for penetration testers - https://api.sublist3r.com/search.php?domain=example.com
Suip: Web research tools that can take over 10 minutes to run, but worth the wait - https://suip.biz
threatcrowd: Open source threat intelligence - www.threatcrowd.org
threatminer: Data mining for threat intelligence - https://www.threatminer.org/
trello: Search trello boards (Uses Google search.)
twitter: Twitter accounts related to a specific domain (Uses Google search.)
urlscan: A sandbox for the web that is a URL and website scanner - https://urlscan.io
vhost: Bing virtual hosts search
virustotal: virustotal.com domain search
yahoo: Yahoo search engine