128  spiderfoot(1) - Kailash Tool Reference

128.1 spiderfoot

spiderfoot - OSINT automation platform — collects intel about a target from public sources.

Layer CLASSIC
Category c-01-information-gathering
Safety class safe
Licence MIT
Upstream github.com/smicallef/spiderfoot

128.1.1 NAME

spiderfoot - OSINT automation platform — collects intel about a target from public sources.

128.1.2 SYNOPSIS & usage

Derived from the upstream README at generation time; verify against --help where the tool is installed.

 wget https://github.com/smicallef/spiderfoot/archive/v4.0.tar.gz
 tar zxvf v4.0.tar.gz
 cd spiderfoot-4.0
 pip3 install -r requirements.txt
 python3 ./sf.py -l 127.0.0.1:5001
 git clone https://github.com/smicallef/spiderfoot.git
 cd spiderfoot
 pip3 install -r requirements.txt
 python3 ./sf.py -l 127.0.0.1:5001

128.1.3 DESCRIPTION (upstream)

SpiderFoot is an open source intelligence (OSINT) automation tool. It integrates with just about every data source available and utilises a range of methods for data analysis, making that data easy to navigate. SpiderFoot has an embedded web-server for providing a clean and intuitive web-based interface but can also be used completely via the command-line. It’s written in Python 3 and MIT-licensed. - Web based UI or CLI - Over 200 modules (see below) - Python 3.7+ - YAML-configurable correlation engine with 37 pre-defined rules - CSV/JSON/GEXF export - API key export/import - SQLite back

128.1.4 CONFIGURATION (detected)

Config-surface markers detected in the upstream README (2 matches, e.g. template.yaml, template.yaml). A full config reference page for this tool is queued under the config-page policy — this line is the detection record, not the page.

128.1.5 SEE ALSO

ref: pin - verified 2026-10-14