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So happy to hear it helps, thanks a lot!


Thanks.. it’s been a ton of work over years, with valuable contributions from others as well, so I’m really glad to see it’s appreciated.

If there’s however any pain point you experience with SpiderFoot, I’d be happy to hear it.


I am new to OSINT and this looks like a really cool way to get started.

Maybe this exists and I missed it but it would nice to have a way not to run scans with a missing API key. Even better would be a way to easily link to instructions to obtain missing API keys, for example each module could have a metadata slot for 'API key generation url'... it would be a lot of work so I understand if it's not in the roadmap.

Thanks for your hard work on this project


It actually does search for social media accounts linked to a name or username, but does so using Google/Bing APIs and not Facebook’s.


Indeed, Whois sucks for parsing and is losing value as an OSINT source since GDPR. I’ll take a look at RDAP.


Company data is a little there, using OpenCorporates’ API. The tool originated with a smaller scope initially and has grown over 8 years of development. I can imagine how different it will look in another few years.


Actually you can target a bunch of things beyond domains, including IPs, usernames, phone numbers and more. And historic Whois and leak database modules are indeed there. In some cases you need API keys though but most offer free tiers for low volumes.

But yes, it’s not covering some of the other sources you mentioned... yet.


Appreciate it, thanks!


Yeah, this looks pretty awesome! I ran it against one of my own domains and there's a fair bit of false positive/flood of information, but the data is really interesting!


I didn’t even consider the MSF compatibility need for people, so will take that into consideration for a future release. The sfcli.py CLI was a starting point for that kind of functionality but not MSF compatible. Thanks for the feedback though!


Author of the project (not the OP) here. Must say it was quite a surprise to see this land in my HN feed today! I’ll do my best to answer the points raised below but if you have any questions or further feedback, I’m glad to hear it!


Brilliant idea. There have been so many times where I've been in Excel thinking "if only I could run SQL on this."

Only thing to concern yourself with now is how long before Microsoft implements this in Excel?

P.S. Great to hear an Aussie accent in a demo video!


There have been so many times where I've been in Excel thinking "if only I could run SQL on this.

There is a Perl DBD for this. It doesn't run in Excel, but you can run SQL queries on spreadsheet files.


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