Scraping

A technique that attackers utilize to extract a large number of datasets from websites, whereby the extracted data is stored locally in a filesystem, is called scraping, or web scraping. In the following section, we will utilize some of the most commonly used tools in Kali Linux to perform scraping.

Gathering usernames and email addresses

theHarvester is a Python script that searches through popular search engines and other sites for email addresses, hosts, and sub-domains. Using theHarvester is relatively simple, as there are only a few command switches to set. The options are as follows:

• -d: This identifies the domain to be searched, usually the domain or target’s website.
• -b: This identifies the source for extracting the data; it must be one of the following: Bing, BingAPI, Google, Google-Profiles, Jigsaw, LinkedIn, People123, PGP, or All.
• -l: This limiting option instructs theHarvester to only harvest data from a specified number...