377  the-harvester - configuration reference

378 the-harvester — configuration reference

Configuration surfaces for the-harvester (safety class: safe; category: c-01-information-gathering) — detected from the upstream documentation at generation time (11 config-surface markers). The invocation reference stays on the main tool page.

378.1 Configuration files

Path Context
api-keys.yaml API key column refers to provider settings in api-keys.yaml; some providers require more than one value. Optional
/etc/theHarvester ester/. It also reads system configuration from/etc/theHarvester/and/usr/local/etc/theHarvester/. -api-keys.y
proxies.yaml s and related values such as organization IDs. - proxies.yaml configures HTTP and SOCKS5 proxies used with -p. - The

378.2 Environment variables

Variable Upstream context
THEHARVESTER_API_KEY ion and API on 127.0.0.1:5000 by default: ```bash export THEHARVESTER_API_KEY=‘replace-with-a-long-random-value’ uv run harvest

Names extracted heuristically from upstream docs — verify each against the tool’s own docs before use.


ref: pin - verified 2026-10-14