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TheHarvester Cheat Sheet

A Software › Linux cheat sheet in English by ttime21

A cheat sheet to help with the Recon tool TheHarvester

Harvester
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TheHar­vester Fundam­entals

Basic domain scan
theHar­vester -d <do­mai­n> -b google
Use multiple data sources
theHar­vester -d <do­mai­n> -b google­,bi­ng,­crtsh
Save results to HTML
theHar­vester -d <do­mai­n> -b google -f report
Limit number of results
theHar­vester -d <do­mai­n> -b bing -l 200
Start at specific result
theHar­vester -d <do­mai­n> -b google -s 50
Verbose output
theHar­vester -d <do­mai­n> -b google -v
Help menu
theHar­vester -h

Filtering and Control

Limit results
-l <nu­mbe­r>
Start at specific result
-s <nu­mbe­r>
Use Shodan API
-b shodan
Use DNS brute force
--dns-­brute
Specify data source
-b <so­urc­e>

Data Sources

Google search
-b google
Bing search
-b bing
DuckDuckGo search
-b duckduckgo
Yahoo search
-b yahoo
Certif­icate search
-b crtsh
LinkedIn search
-b linkedin
Twitter search
-b twitter
Shodan search
-b shodan
Multiple sources
-b google­,bi­ng,­crtsh

Common Use Cases

Find emails
theHar­vester -d <do­mai­n> -b google
Find subdomains
theHar­vester -d <do­mai­n> -b crtsh
Combine multiple OSINT sources
theHar­vester -d <do­mai­n> -b google­,bi­ng,­crtsh
Export results for reporting
theHar­vester -d <do­mai­n> -b google -f report
Social media OSINT
theHar­vester -d <do­mai­n> -b linkedin
Certif­ica­te-­based discovery
theHar­vester -d <do­mai­n> -b crtsh
Shodan host intell­igence
theHar­vester -d <do­mai­n> -b shodan

Output Options

Save HTML report
-f <fi­len­ame­>.html
Save XML report
-f <fi­len­ame­>.xml
Save JSON report
-f <fi­len­ame­>.json
Verbose output
-v
Show only raw results
--raw

Examples

Full multi-­source scan
theHar­vester -d <do­mai­n> -b google­,bi­ng,­crtsh -l 500
Save HTML report
theHar­vester -d <do­mai­n> -b google -f report
Social media OSINT
theHar­vester -d <do­mai­n> -b linkedin
Certif­ica­te-­based subdomain discovery
theHar­vester -d <do­mai­n> -b crtsh
Shodan host intell­igence
theHar­vester -d <do­mai­n> -b shodan
Top-level quick scan
theHar­vester -d <do­mai­n> -b google -l 50
Email-­focused scan
theHar­vester -d <do­mai­n> -b google­,bing

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