Top 23 Python Reconnaissance Projects

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1. sherlock

   1 116 84,589 9.3 Python

   Hunt down social media accounts by username across social networks

   

   Project mention: Free software scares normal people | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-10-30

   Wow, it's actually real.

   https://old.reddit.com/r/github/comments/1at9br4/i_am_new_to...

   https://github.com/sherlock-project/sherlock/issues/2011

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3. maigret

   2 27 31,239 8.6 Python

   🕵️‍♂️ Collect a dossier on a person by username from 3000+ sites

   

   Project mention: Should you leave red herrings about yourself online? | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-05-11

   This article reminded me of seeing this in GH trending repositories last month: https://github.com/soxoj/maigret

   "For educational and lawful purposes only"

4. theHarvester

   3 20 16,410 9.5 Python

   E-mails, subdomains and names Harvester - OSINT

   

   Project mention: Introducing Installerpedia - Install Anything With Zero Hassle | dev.to | 2026-01-11

   "installation_methods": [ { "instructions": [ { "command": "curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh" }, { "command": "git clone https://github.com/laramies/theHarvester" }, { "command": "cd theHarvester" }, { "command": "uv sync" }, { "command": "uv run theHarvester" } ], "title": "Binary Installation" } ]

5. Raccoon

   4 4 3,562 3.6 Python

   A high performance offensive security tool for reconnaissance and vulnerability scanning

   

6. reconspider

   5 1 2,621 0.0 Python

   🔎 Most Advanced Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) Framework for scanning IP Address, Emails, Websites, Organizations.

   

7. rapidscan

   6 1 2,059 4.1 Python

   :new: The Multi-Tool Web Vulnerability Scanner.

   

8. fierce

   7 4 1,785 6.2 Python

   A DNS reconnaissance tool for locating non-contiguous IP space.

   

9. AttackSurfaceMapper

   8 3 1,402 2.5 Python

   AttackSurfaceMapper is a tool that aims to automate the reconnaissance process.

   

10. FavFreak

    9 1 1,283 3.3 Python

    Making Favicon.ico based Recon Great again !

    

11. pywerview

    10 1 1,121 5.9 Python

    A (partial) Python rewriting of PowerSploit's PowerView

    

12. mailcat

    11 2 882 6.2 Python

    Find existing email addresses by nickname using API/SMTP checking methods without user notification. Please, don't hesitate to improve cat's job! 🐱🔎 📬

    

13. WitnessMe

    12 1 762 2.2 Python

    Web Inventory tool, takes screenshots of webpages using Pyppeteer (headless Chrome/Chromium) and provides some extra bells & whistles to make life easier.

    

14. sarenka

    13 1 663 0.0 Python

    OSINT tool - gets data from services like shodan, censys etc. in one app

    

15. natlas

    14 5 658 4.8 Python

    Attack Surface Management since before Attack Surface Management was a thing

    

16. Nebula

    15 1 630 5.4 Python

    Nebula is a cloud C2 Framework, which at the moment offers reconnaissance, enumeration, exploitation, post exploitation on AWS, but still working to allow testing other Cloud Providers and DevOps Components. (by gl4ssesbo1)

    

17. Dome

    16 3 540 5.8 Python

    Dome - Subdomain Enumeration Tool. Fast and reliable python script that makes active and/or passive scan to obtain subdomains and search for open ports. (by v4d1)

    

18. phomber

    17 2 537 7.9 Python

    [PH0MBER]: An open source infomation grathering & reconnaissance framework!

    

19. CloudScraper

    18 2 536 1.8 Python

    CloudScraper: Tool to enumerate targets in search of cloud resources. S3 Buckets, Azure Blobs, Digital Ocean Storage Space. (by jordanpotti)

    

20. skytrack

    19 5 512 8.7 Python

    skytrack is a planespotting and aircraft OSINT tool made using Python 🛩🔍

    

21. HawkScan

    20 1 462 4.3 Python

    Security Tool for Reconnaissance and Information Gathering on a website. (python 3.x)

    

22. geo-recon

    21 2 393 0.0 Python

    An OSINT CLI tool desgined to fast track IP Reputation and Geo-locaton look up for Security Analysts.

    

23. netspionage

    22 2 304 2.9 Python

    Network Forensics CLI utility that performs Network Scanning, OSINT, and Attack Detection

    

24. intelspy

    23 1 240 0.0 Python

    Perform automated network reconnaissance scans

    

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