Photon: Fast web crawler for Recon

Photon is a lightning fast web crawler which extracts URLs, files, intel & endpoints from a target.

Usage

-u --url

Run Photon against a single website.

python photon.py -u http://example.com

Specifying a URL with it’s schema i.e. http(s):// is optional but you must add www. if the website has it.

Tip 💡 : If you feel like the crawling is taking too long or you just don’t want to crawl anymore, just press ctrl + c in your terminal and Photon will skip the rest of URLs.

-l --level

Depth of crawling.

python photon.py -u http://example.com -l 3

Default Value: 2

-d --delay

You can keep a delay between requests made to the target by specifying the time in seconds.

python photon.py -u http://example.com -d 1

Default Value: 0

-t --threads

Number of threads to use.

python photon.py -u http://example.com -t 10

Default Value: 2

Tip 💡 :
The optimal number of threads depends on your connection speed as well
as nature of the target server. If you have a decent network connection
and the server doesn’t have any rate limiting in place, you can use up
to 100 threads.

-c --cookie

Cookie to send.

python photon.py -u http://example.com -c "PHPSSID=821b32d21"

-n --ninja

Toggles Ninja Mode on/off.

python photon.py -u http://example.com --ninja

Default Value: False

Tip 💡 : Ninja mode uses the following websites to make requests on your behalf:

• codebeautify.org
• photopea.com
• pixlr.com

Please help me add more “APIs” to reduce load on their servers and turn off this mode whenever not required.

-s --seeds

Lets you add custom seeds, seperated by commas.

python photon.py -u http://example.com -s "http://example.com/portals.html,http://example.com/blog/2018"

-r --regex

Specify custom regex pattern to extract strings.

python photon.py -u http://example.com -r "d{10}"

The strings extracted using the custom regex pattern are saved in custom.txt.