Tool Documentation:

metagoofil Usage Example

Scan for documents from a domain (-d kali.org) that are PDF files (-t pdf), searching 100 results (-l 100), download 25 files (-n 25), saving the downloads to a directory (-o kalipdf), and saving the output to a file (-f kalipdf.html):

root@kali:~# metagoofil -d kali.org -t pdf -l 100 -n 25 -o kalipdf -f kalipdf.html

******************************************************
*     /\/\   ___| |_ __ _  __ _  ___   ___  / _(_) | *
*    /    \ / _ \ __/ _` |/ _` |/ _ \ / _ \| |_| | | *
*   / /\/\ \  __/ || (_| | (_| | (_) | (_) |  _| | | *
*   \/    \/\___|\__\__,_|\__, |\___/ \___/|_| |_|_| *
*                         |___/                      *
* Metagoofil Ver 2.2                                 *
* Christian Martorella                               *
* Edge-Security.com                                  *
* cmartorella_at_edge-security.com                   *
******************************************************
['pdf']

[-] Starting online search...

[-] Searching for pdf files, with a limit of 100
        Searching 100 results...
Results: 21 files found
Starting to download 25 of them:

Packages and Binaries:

metagoofil

Metagoofil is an information gathering tool designed for extracting metadata of public documents (pdf,doc,xls,ppt,docx,pptx,xlsx) belonging to a target company.

Metagoofil will perform a search in Google to identify and download the documents to local disk. Metagoofil does no longer extract the metadata. See /usr/share/doc/metagoofil/README.md.gz.

Installed size: 126 KB
How to install: sudo apt install metagoofil

Dependencies:
  • python3
  • python3-googlesearch
  • python3-requests
metagoofil
root@kali:~# metagoofil -h
usage: metagoofil.py [-h] -d DOMAIN [-e DELAY] [-f [SAVE_FILE]]
                     [-i URL_TIMEOUT] [-l SEARCH_MAX] [-n DOWNLOAD_FILE_LIMIT]
                     [-o SAVE_DIRECTORY] [-r NUMBER_OF_THREADS] -t FILE_TYPES
                     [-u [USER_AGENT]] [-w]

Metagoofil v1.2.0 - Search Google and download specific file types.

options:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -d DOMAIN             Domain to search.
  -e DELAY              Delay (in seconds) between searches. If it's too small
                        Google may block your IP, too big and your search may
                        take a while. Default: 30.0
  -f [SAVE_FILE]        Save the html links to a file.
                        no -f = Do not save links
                        -f = Save links to html_links_<TIMESTAMP>.txt
                        -f SAVE_FILE = Save links to SAVE_FILE
  -i URL_TIMEOUT        Number of seconds to wait before timeout for
                        unreachable/stale pages. Default: 15
  -l SEARCH_MAX         Maximum results to search. Default: 100
  -n DOWNLOAD_FILE_LIMIT
                        Maximum number of files to download per filetype.
                        Default: 100
  -o SAVE_DIRECTORY     Directory to save downloaded files. Default is current
                        working directory, "."
  -r NUMBER_OF_THREADS  Number of downloader threads. Default: 8
  -t FILE_TYPES         file_types to download
                        (pdf,doc,xls,ppt,odp,ods,docx,xlsx,pptx). To search
                        all 17,576 three-letter file extensions, type "ALL"
  -u [USER_AGENT]       User-Agent for file retrieval against -d domain.
                        no -u = "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)"
                        -u = Randomize User-Agent
                        -u "My custom user agent 2.0" = Your customized User-Agent
  -w                    Download the files, instead of just viewing search
                        results.

Updated on: 2024-Mar-11