dirsearch(1)

NAME

dirsearch - An advanced command-line tool designed to brute force directories and files in webservers

SYNOPSIS

dirsearch.py [-u|--url] target [-e|--extensions] extensions [options]

OPTIONS

--version

show program's version number and exit

-h, --help

show this help message and exit

Mandatory:

-u URL, --url=URL

Target URL

-l FILE, --url-list=FILE

Target URL list file

--stdin

Target URL list from STDIN

--cidr=CIDR

Target CIDR

--raw=FILE

Load raw HTTP request from file (use `--scheme` flag to set the scheme)

-e EXTENSIONS, --extensions=EXTENSIONS

Extension list separated by commas (Example: php,asp)

-X EXTENSIONS, --exclude-extensions=EXTENSIONS

Exclude extension list separated by commas (Example: asp,jsp)

-f, --force-extensions

Add extensions to every wordlist entry. By default dirsearch only replaces the %EXT% keyword with extensions

Dictionary Settings:

-w WORDLIST, --wordlists=WORDLIST

Customize wordlists (separated by commas)

--prefixes=PREFIXES

Add custom prefixes to all wordlist entries (separated by commas)

--suffixes=SUFFIXES

Add custom suffixes to all wordlist entries, ignore directories (separated by commas)

--only-selected

Remove paths have different extensions from selected ones via `-e` (keep entries don't have extensions)

--remove-extensions

Remove extensions in all paths (Example: admin.php -> admin)

-U, --uppercase

Uppercase wordlist

-L, --lowercase

Lowercase wordlist

-C, --capital

Capital wordlist

General Settings:

-t THREADS, --threads=THREADS

Number of threads

-r, --recursive

Brute-force recursively

--deep-recursive

Perform recursive scan on every directory depth (Example: api/users -> api/)

--force-recursive

Do recursive brute-force for every found path, not only paths end with slash

-R DEPTH, --recursion-depth=DEPTH

Maximum recursion depth

--recursion-status=CODES

Valid status codes to perform recursive scan, support ranges (separated by commas)

--subdirs=SUBDIRS

Scan sub-directories of the given URL[s] (separated by commas)

--exclude-subdirs=SUBDIRS

Exclude the following subdirectories during recursive scan (separated by commas)

-i CODES, --include-status=CODES

Include status codes, separated by commas, support ranges (Example: 200,300-399)

-x CODES, --exclude-status=CODES

Exclude status codes, separated by commas, support ranges (Example: 301,500-599)

--exclude-sizes=SIZES

Exclude responses by sizes, separated by commas (Example: 123B,4KB)

--exclude-texts=TEXTS

Exclude responses by texts, separated by commas (Example: 'Not found', 'Error')

--exclude-regexps=REGEXPS

Exclude responses by regexps, separated by commas (Example: 'Not foun[a-z]{1}', '^Error$')

--exclude-redirects=REGEXPS

Exclude responses by redirect regexps or texts, separated by commas (Example: 'https://okta.com/*')

--exclude-response=PATH

Exclude responses by response of this page (path as input)

--skip-on-status=CODES

Skip target whenever hit one of these status codes, separated by commas, support ranges

--minimal=LENGTH

Minimal response length

--maximal=LENGTH

Maximal response length

--max-time=SECONDS

Maximal runtime for the scan

-q, --quiet-mode

Quiet mode

--full-url

Full URLs in the output (enabled automatically in quiet mode)

--no-color

No colored output

Request Settings:

-m METHOD, --http-method=METHOD

HTTP method (default: GET)

-d DATA, --data=DATA

HTTP request data

-H HEADERS, --header=HEADERS

HTTP request header, support multiple flags (Example: -H 'Referer: example.com')

--header-list=FILE

File contains HTTP request headers

-F, --follow-redirects

Follow HTTP redirects

--random-agent

Choose a random User-Agent for each request

--auth-type=TYPE

Authentication type (basic, digest, bearer, ntlm)

--auth=CREDENTIAL

Authentication credential (user:password or bearer token)

--user-agent=USERAGENT

--cookie=COOKIE

Connection Settings:

--timeout=TIMEOUT

Connection timeout

-s DELAY, --delay=DELAY

Delay between requests

--proxy=PROXY

Proxy URL, support HTTP and SOCKS proxies (Example: localhost:8080, socks5://localhost:8088)

--proxy-list=FILE

File contains proxy servers

--replay-proxy=PROXY

Proxy to replay with found paths

--scheme=SCHEME

Default scheme (for raw request or if there is no scheme in the URL)

--max-rate=RATE

Max requests per second

--retries=RETRIES

Number of retries for failed requests

-b, --request-by-hostname

By default dirsearch requests by IP for speed. This will force dirsearch to request by hostname

--ip=IP

Server IP address

--exit-on-error

Exit whenever an error occurs

Reports:

-o FILE, --output=FILE

Output file

--format=FORMAT

Report format (Available: simple, plain, json, xml, md, csv, html)

You can change the dirsearch default configurations (default extensions,

timeout, wordlist location, ...) by editing the "/etc/dirsearch/default.conf" file. More information at https://github.com/maurosoria/dirsearch.

SEE ALSO

The full documentation for dirsearch is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and dirsearch programs are properly installed at your site, the command

info dirsearch

should give you access to the complete manual.