dirsearch VS thc-hydra

I am new to Python. With the help of several users (thanks u/Diapolo10 and u/shiftybyte)I've been able to install Python and the dirsearch package. Dirsearch (https://github.com/maurosoria/dirsearch) allows for checking website paths with a wordlist. For example, I have a wordlist file with words like "dog", "cat", "bird", etc and I want to check the validity of those words as extensions on a website. Something like "example.com/bird", "example.com/cat", etc. I have a test wordlist in the same directory as dirsearch, but I am confused on how to proceed with the commands. I want to have it check my wordlist as extensions on the example.com website and then save output on if the webpath is valid or not. Just need a little bit of help.

DirSearch

Learn more about dirsearch here: https://github.com/maurosoria/dirsearch

Empowered with a list of all the exposed URLs in your organization, you can then set up a process to scan these using a number of web-focused Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST) tools and scanners such as Zed Attack Proxy, dirsearch (Web path scanner), Aquatone, and Nikto2. The OWASP® Foundation maintains a full list of scanning tools that could be used.

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dirsearch:

Nice tool, only unfortunate name, consider changing it. Already very well know security tool named hydra https://github.com/vanhauser-thc/thc-hydra been around since 2001. Then facebook went ahead and named their config tool hydra https://github.com/facebookresearch/hydra on top of it. Like we get it, hydra popular mythology but we could use more original naming for tools

I just started learning Rust, but I will begin building a brute-force tool. Hydra is great but lacks updates, IMHO. I started using Golang, but it sucks (I love the Go language, but it sucks for this type of task).

Hydra

Hydra (https://github.com/vanhauser-thc/thc-hydra) starting at 2023-01-28 16:31:17 [WARNING] the rdp module is experimental. Please test, report - and if possible, fix. [WARNING] Restorefile (ignored ...) from a previous session found, to prevent overwriting, ./hydra.restore [DATA] max 3 tasks per 1 server, overall 3 tasks, 21112 login tries (l:104/p:203), ~7038 tries per task [DATA] attacking rdp://10.129.202.136:3389/ [STATUS] 166.00 tries/min, 166 tries in 00:01h, 20946 to do in 02:07h, 3 active [STATUS] 121.67 tries/min, 365 tries in 00:03h, 20747 to do in 02:51h, 3 active [3389][rdp] account on 10.129.202.136 might be valid but account not active for remote desktop: login: password: , continuing attacking the account. [STATUS] 86.29 tries/min, 604 tries in 00:07h, 20509 to do in 03:58h, 2 active [ERROR] all children were disabled due too many connection errors 0 of 1 target completed, 0 valid password found [INFO] Writing restore file because 2 server scans could not be completed [ERROR] 1 target was disabled because of too many errors [ERROR] 1 targets did not complete Hydra (https://github.com/vanhauser-thc/thc-hydra) finished at 2023-01-28 16:38:23

I am searching for people interested in coding an alternative to the thc-hydra project, with additional features (implementing the Shodan api to make it automated, etc...)

Hydra (https://github.com/vanhauser-thc/thc-hydra) starting at 2022-10-22 13:09:13