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:
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.
