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Overview
HEALTH SCORE
Excellent*
Partial score (2/3 categories)
61out of 65
Strong development cadence. Maintainer coverage is the only remaining gap. Security & Supply Chain is unavailable, so weights were redistributed.
LIFECYCLE
Active
Consistent commits, responsive maintainers, regular releases, and healthy issue triage.
Health breakdown
Excellent*(61/65)
Maintainer availability, known risks and supply chain posture, and whether the project is actively developed or appropriately stable.
Maintainer responsiveness
Median response time is 1 day.
Bus factor
4 active maintainers currently have merge rights.
Organization Diversity
Contributors span 209 organizations.
Project Achievements
LeaderboardsAbout
theHarvester is an open-source intelligence (OSINT) gathering tool designed to collect email addresses, subdomains, virtual hosts, open ports, banners, and employee names from various public sources including search engines, PGP key servers, and the Shodan computer database. It helps security professionals and penetration testers perform reconnaissance on target domains.
First commit
Software value
$5.8M
Tags
blueteam
discovery
emails
information-gathering
osint
python
recon
reconnaissance
redteam
subdomain-enumeration
License(s)
GPL-2.0
Data sources
Git
GitHub