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Photon		Profil3r
	Project
3	Mentions	8
10,513	Stars	1,121
-	Growth	-
0.0	Activity	8.8
4 months ago	Latest Commit	over 2 years ago
Python	Language	Python
GNU General Public License v3.0 only	License	MIT License

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

Photon

Posts with mentions or reviews of Photon. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-12-27.

How is ArchiveBox?
4 projects | /r/selfhosted | 27 Dec 2021

If you need more advanced recursive spider/crawling ability beyond --depth=1, check out Browsertrix, Photon, or Scrapy and pipe the outputted URLs into ArchiveBox.
Getting started in OSINT
1 project | /r/OSINT | 18 Oct 2021

Good place to start: https://github.com/s0md3v/Photon
How do I fix 'module not found: tld' even though it's already installed
1 project | /r/learnpython | 2 Aug 2021

Whenever I try to run Photon from my python script it gives me the error 'module not found: tld' even though the module is already installed and Photon works just fine if I run it normally from my terminal

Profil3r

Posts with mentions or reviews of Profil3r. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-05-22.

Profil3r: An OSINT Tool to discover a person's Profiles on Social Medias + Breached Email Adresses
2 projects | /r/hacking | 22 May 2021
Profil3r: An OSINT Tool to discover a person's profiles on social medias
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 22 May 2021
Show HN: Osint Tool to find a person usernames, emails and breached emails
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 6 May 2021
Profil3r and OSINT tool
1 project | /r/OSINT | 14 Apr 2021

Thanks to this subreddit and a couple of others I have been able to add several tools onto my tool belt. The latest one that I have been playing with is Profil3r, this is a very easy to use python tool that allows you to gather information from a different social media platforms. Here is a video I put together explaining how to use the tool.
Osint: Find a person's accounts and email addresses and Breached emails
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 14 Apr 2021
[OSINT] Profil3r : Find a person's accounts (Facebook, Tiktok, Twitter) and email addresses + Breached emails
1 project | /r/netsec | 13 Apr 2021
Profil3r : Find a person's accounts (Facebook, Tiktok, Twitter) and email addresses + Breached emails
1 project | /r/OSINT | 13 Apr 2021

Here is the Github repo : https://github.com/Rog3rSm1th/Profil3r

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Photon and Profil3r you can also consider the following projects:

browsertrix-crawler - Run a high-fidelity browser-based crawler in a single Docker container

sherlock - 🔎 Hunt down social media accounts by username across social networks

scrapy-iltasanomat-kuntavaalit2021 - Fetch Sanoma kuntavaalit 2021 data

GHunt - 🕵️‍♂️ Offensive Google framework.

podcatcher - Audio media crawler for lbry.

TWINT - An advanced Twitter scraping & OSINT tool written in Python that doesn't use Twitter's API, allowing you to scrape a user's followers, following, Tweets and more while evading most API limitations.

scrapy-sanoma-kuntavaalit2021 - Fetch Sanoma kuntavaalit 2021 data [Moved to: https://github.com/raspi/scrapy-kuntavaalit2021-sanoma]

theHarvester - E-mails, subdomains and names Harvester - OSINT

google-play-scraper - Google play scraper for Python inspired by <facundoolano/google-play-scraper>

rewe-discounts - Grabs current REWE discounts and saves them in a markdown file || Holt sich aktuelle REWE-Angebote und exportiert sie in eine Markdown-Liste

PSpider - 简单易用的Python爬虫框架，QQ交流群：597510560

telegramscraper - Scraper and adder for Telegram supporting multiple accounts at the same time. Adds via Telegram API and only by username. For adding via ID and not needing Telgram API contact me.