theHarvester - Cyber Cheatsheets

## 🕵️ theHarvester Cheatsheet

## 🧩 Basic Usage

Command	Description
`theHarvester -d example.com -b google`	Search Google for info related to `example.com`.
`theHarvester -d example.com -b bing -l 100`	Limit results to 100 from Bing.
`theHarvester -d example.com -b all`	Search using all available data sources.
`theHarvester -d example.com -b google -f results.html`	Save results to an HTML file.

## ⚙️ Options Overview

Option	Description
`-d <domain>`	Target domain to search.
`-b <data source>`	Data source (e.g., google, bing, yahoo, linkedin, shodan, crtsh, etc.). Use `-b all` to search all.
`-l <limit>`	Limit the number of results (default: 500).
`-f <filename>`	Save results to HTML and XML files.
`-s <start>`	Start with result number X (useful for paginated search engines).
`-v`	Verbose mode.
`-h`	Show help menu.

## 🧪 Example Scans

# Basic scan using Google
theHarvester -d example.com -b google

# Search using multiple sources and save to HTML
theHarvester -d example.com -b all -f example_report.html

# Limit results to 200 and start at result 100
theHarvester -d example.com -b bing -l 200 -s 100

# Output both HTML and XML formats
theHarvester -d example.com -b google -f output_report

# Verbose scan
theHarvester -d example.com -b google -v

# Help menu
theHarvester -h