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# Dirsearch

dirsearch - Web Path Discovery

**Dirsearch** is an advanced command-line tool designed to brute force directories and files in webservers.

## Example usage

### Scan for directories and files

Scan for directories and files with specific extensions (`-e`), follow redirects (`-F`), do a recursive search (`-r`) and use additional threads (`-t 32`).

```bash
dirsearch -w /usr/share/wordlists/dirbuster/directory-list-2.3-medium.txt -F -r -t 32 -e php,txt,html -u http://$TARGET_IP
```

## Installation

Installation on Kali Linux

```bash
sudo apt install dirsearch
```

## Usage information

<details>

<summary>dirsearch -h</summary>

```bash
┌──(kali㉿kali)-[~]
└─$ dirsearch -h
/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/dirsearch/dirsearch.py:23: DeprecationWarning: pkg_resources is deprecated as an API. See https://setuptools.pypa.io/en/latest/pkg_resources.html
  from pkg_resources import DistributionNotFound, VersionConflict
Usage: 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(s), can use multiple flags
    -l PATH, --url-file=PATH
                        URL list file
    --stdin             Read URL(s) from STDIN
    --cidr=CIDR         Target CIDR
    --raw=PATH          Load raw HTTP request from file (use `--scheme` flag
                        to set the scheme)
    -s SESSION_FILE, --session=SESSION_FILE
                        Session file
    --config=PATH       Full path to config file, see 'config.ini' for example
                        (Default: config.ini)

  Dictionary Settings:
    -w WORDLISTS, --wordlists=WORDLISTS
                        Customize wordlists (separated by commas)
    -e EXTENSIONS, --extensions=EXTENSIONS
                        Extension list separated by commas (e.g. php,asp)
    -f, --force-extensions
                        Add extensions to the end of every wordlist entry. By
                        default dirsearch only replaces the %EXT% keyword with
                        extensions
    -O, --overwrite-extensions
                        Overwrite other extensions in the wordlist with your
                        extensions (selected via `-e`)
    --exclude-extensions=EXTENSIONS
                        Exclude extension list separated by commas (e.g.
                        asp,jsp)
    --remove-extensions
                        Remove extensions in all paths (e.g. admin.php ->
                        admin)
    --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)
    -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 (e.g.
                        api/users -> api/)
    --force-recursive   Do recursive brute-force for every found path, not
                        only directories
    -R DEPTH, --max-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 (e.g. 200,300-399)
    -x CODES, --exclude-status=CODES
                        Exclude status codes, separated by commas, support
                        ranges (e.g. 301,500-599)
    --exclude-sizes=SIZES
                        Exclude responses by sizes, separated by commas (e.g.
                        0B,4KB)
    --exclude-text=TEXTS
                        Exclude responses by text, can use multiple flags
    --exclude-regex=REGEX
                        Exclude responses by regular expression
    --exclude-redirect=STRING
                        Exclude responses if this regex (or text) matches
                        redirect URL (e.g. '/index.html')
    --exclude-response=PATH
                        Exclude responses similar to response of this page,
                        path as input (e.g. 404.html)
    --skip-on-status=CODES
                        Skip target whenever hit one of these status codes,
                        separated by commas, support ranges
    --min-response-size=LENGTH
                        Minimum response length
    --max-response-size=LENGTH
                        Maximum response length
    --max-time=SECONDS  Maximum runtime for the scan
    --exit-on-error     Exit whenever an error occurs

  Request Settings:
    -m METHOD, --http-method=METHOD
                        HTTP method (default: GET)
    -d DATA, --data=DATA
                        HTTP request data
    --data-file=PATH    File contains HTTP request data
    -H HEADERS, --header=HEADERS
                        HTTP request header, can use multiple flags
    --header-file=PATH  File contains HTTP request headers
    -F, --follow-redirects
                        Follow HTTP redirects
    --random-agent      Choose a random User-Agent for each request
    --auth=CREDENTIAL   Authentication credential (e.g. user:password or
                        bearer token)
    --auth-type=TYPE    Authentication type (basic, digest, bearer, ntlm, jwt,
                        oauth2)
    --cert-file=PATH    File contains client-side certificate
    --key-file=PATH     File contains client-side certificate private key
                        (unencrypted)
    --user-agent=USER_AGENT
    --cookie=COOKIE     

  Connection Settings:
    --timeout=TIMEOUT   Connection timeout
    --delay=DELAY       Delay between requests
    --proxy=PROXY       Proxy URL (HTTP/SOCKS), can use multiple flags
    --proxy-file=PATH   File contains proxy servers
    --proxy-auth=CREDENTIAL
                        Proxy authentication credential
    --replay-proxy=PROXY
                        Proxy to replay with found paths
    --tor               Use Tor network as proxy
    --scheme=SCHEME     Scheme for raw request or if there is no scheme in the
                        URL (Default: auto-detect)
    --max-rate=RATE     Max requests per second
    --retries=RETRIES   Number of retries for failed requests
    --ip=IP             Server IP address

  Advanced Settings:
    --crawl             Crawl for new paths in responses

  View Settings:
    --full-url          Full URLs in the output (enabled automatically in
                        quiet mode)
    --redirects-history
                        Show redirects history
    --no-color          No colored output
    -q, --quiet-mode    Quiet mode

  Output Settings:
    -o PATH, --output=PATH
                        Output file
    --format=FORMAT     Report format (Available: simple, plain, json, xml,
                        md, csv, html, sqlite)
    --log=PATH          Log file

```

</details>

## Resources

Dirsearch - GitHub: <https://github.com/maurosoria/dirsearch>

Dirsearch - Kali Tools: <https://www.kali.org/tools/dirsearch/>