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WHATWEB(1)		     General Commands Manual		      WHATWEB(1)

NAME
     WhatWeb  -  Next generation Web scanner. Identify technologies used by web-
     sites.

SYNOPSIS
     whatweb [options] <URLs>

DESCRIPTION
     WhatWeb identifies websites. It's goal is to answer the question, "What  is
     that  Website?". WhatWeb recognises web technologies including content man-
     agement systems (CMS), blogging  platforms,  statistic/analytics  packages,
     JavaScript  libraries,  web servers, and embedded devices. WhatWeb has over
     1800 plugins, each to recognise something different. WhatWeb  also  identi-
     fies version numbers, email addresses, account ID's, web framework modules,
     SQL errors, and more.

     WhatWeb can be stealthy and fast, or thorough but slow. WhatWeb supports an
     aggression  level	to  control the trade off between speed and reliability.
     When you visit a website in your browser,	the  transaction  includes  many
     hints  of what web technologies are powering that website. Sometimes a sin-
     gle webpage visit contains enough information to  identify  a  website  but
     when  it does not, WhatWeb can interrogate the website further. The default
     level of aggression, called 'passive', is the fastest and requires only one
     HTTP request of a website. This is suitable for scanning  public  websites.
     More aggressive modes were developed for in penetration tests.

     Most WhatWeb plugins are thorough and recognise a range of cues from subtle
     to  obvious.  For example, most WordPress websites can be identified by the
     meta HTML tag, e.g. '<meta  name="generator"  content="WordPress  2.6.5">',
     but  a  minority of WordPress websites remove this identifying tag but this
     does not thwart WhatWeb. The WordPress WhatWeb plugin has	over  15  tests,
     which  include  checking  the  favicon,  default  installation files, login
     pages, and checking for "/wp-content/" within relative links.

     Features:

	  * Over 1800 plugins

	  * Control the trade off between speed/stealth and reliability

	  * Performance tuning. Control how many websites to scan concurrently.

	  * Multiple log formats: Brief (greppable), Verbose (human readable),
     XML, JSON, MagicTree, RubyObject, MongoDB, SQL.

	  * Proxy support including TOR

	  * Custom HTTP headers

	  * Basic HTTP authentication

	  * Control over webpage redirection

	  * IP address ranges

	  * Fuzzy matching

	  * Result certainty awareness

	  * Custom plugins defined on the command line

	  * IDN (International Domain Name) support

TARGET SELECTION
     <TARGETs>
	    Enter URLs, hostnames, IP adddresses,  filenames  or  IP  ranges  in
	    CIDR, x.x.x-x, or x.x.x.x-x.x.x.x format.

     --input-file=FILE -i
	    Identify URLs found in FILE

TARGET MODIFICATION
     --url-prefix
	    Add a prefix to target URLs

     --url-suffix
	    Add a suffix to target URLs

     --url-pattern
	    Insert  the targets into a URL. Requires --input-file, eg. www.exam-
	    ple.com/%insert%/robots.txt

AGGRESSION
     The aggression level controls the trade-off between speed/stealth and reli-
     ability.

     --aggression -a=LEVEL
	    Set the aggression level. Default: 1.

      1. Stealthy	Makes one HTTP request per target and also follows redi-
     rects.
      3. Aggressive	If a level 1 plugin is matched, additional requests will
     be made.
      4. Heavy		Makes a lot of HTTP requests per target. URLs  from  all
     plugins are attempted.

HTTP OPTIONS
     --user-agent, -U=AGENT
	    Identify as AGENT instead of WhatWeb/0.4.9.

     --header, -H
	    Add  an  HTTP header. eg "Foo:Bar". Specifying a default header will
	    replace it. Specifying an empty value, e.g. "User-Agent:"  will  re-
	    move it.

     --follow-redirect=WHEN
	    Control  when to follow redirects. WHEN may be `never', `http-only',
	    `meta-only', `same-site', or `always'. Default: always.

     --max-redirects=NUM
	    Maximum number of redirects. Default: 10.

AUTHENTICATION
     --user, -u=<user:password>
	    HTTP basic authentication.

     --cookie, -c=COOKIES
	    Use cookies, e.g. 'name=value; name2=value2'.

PROXY
     --proxy <hostname[:port]> Set proxy hostname and port. Default: 8080.

     --proxy-user
	    <username:password> Set proxy user and password.

PLUGINS
     --list-plugins, -l
	    List all plugins.

     --info-plugins, -I=[SEARCH]
	    List all plugins with detailed information. Optionally  search  with
	    keywords in a comma delimited list.

     --search-plugins=STRING
	    Search plugins for a keyword.

     --plugins, -p=LIST
	    Select  plugins.  LIST is a comma delimited set of selected plugins.
	    Default is all.  Each element can be a  directory,	file  or  plugin
	    name and can optionally have a modifier, +/-.

     Examples: +/tmp/moo.rb,+/tmp/foo.rb
	    title,md5,+./plugins-disabled/
	    -p + is a shortcut for -p +plugins-disabled.

     --grep, -g=STRING|REGEXP
	    Search for STRING or a Regular Expression. Shows only the results that match.

     Examples: --grep "hello"
	    --grep "/he[l]*o/"

     --custom-plugin=DEFINITION
	    Define a custom plugin named Custom-Plugin,

     Examples: ":text=>'powered by abc'"
     ":version=>/powered[ ]?by ab[0-9]/"
     ":ghdb=>'intitle:abc
     ":md5=>'8666257030b94d3bdb46e05945f60b42'"
     "{:text=>'powered by abc'}"

     --dorks=PLUGIN
     List Google dorks for the selected plugin.

OUTPUT
     --verbose, -v
	    Verbose  output  includes  plugin descriptions. Use twice for debug-
	    ging.

     --colour,--color=WHEN
	    control whether colour is used. WHEN may be  `never',  `always',  or
	    `auto'.

     --quiet, -q
	    Do not display brief logging to STDOUT.

     --no-errors
	    Suppress error messages.

LOGGING
     --log-brief=FILE
	    Log brief, one-line output.

     --log-verbose=FILE
	    Log verbose output.

     --log-errors=FILE
	    Log errors.

     --log-xml=FILE
	    Log XML format.

     --log-json=FILE
	    Log JSON format.

     --log-sql=FILE
	    Log SQL INSERT statements.

     --log-sql-create=FILE
	    Create SQL database tables.

     --log-json-verbose=FILE
	    Log JSON Verbose format.

     --log-magictree=FILE
	    Log MagicTree XML format.

     --log-object=FILE
	    Log Ruby object inspection format.

     --log-mongo-database
	    Name of the MongoDB database.

     --log-mongo-collection
	    Name of the MongoDB collection. Default: whatweb.

     --log-mongo-host
	    MongoDB hostname or IP address. Default: 0.0.0.0.

     --log-mongo-username
	    MongoDB username. Default: nil.

     --log-mongo-password
	    MongoDB password. Default: nil.

     --log-elastic-index
	    Name of the index to store results. Default: whatweb

     --log-elastic-host
	    Host:port of the elastic http interface. Default: 127.0.0.1:9200s

PERFORMANCE & STABILITY
     --max-threads, -t
	    Number of simultaneous threads. Default: 25.

     --open-timeout
	    Time in seconds. Default: 15.

     --read-timeout
	    Time in seconds. Default: 30.

     --wait=SECONDS
	    Wait SECONDS between connections. This is useful when using a single
	    thread.

HELP & MISCELLANEOUS
     --short-help
	    Short usage help.

     --help, -h
	    Complete usage help.

     --debug
	    Raise errors in plugins.

     --version
	    Display version information.

EXAMPLE USAGE
     Scan example.com.
	     ./whatweb example.com

     Scan reddit.com slashdot.org with verbose plugin descriptions.
	     ./whatweb -v reddit.com slashdot.org

     An aggressive scan of wired.com detects the exact version of WordPress.
	     ./whatweb -a 3 www.wired.com

     Scan the local network quickly and suppress errors.
	     whatweb --no-errors 192.168.0.0/24

     Scan the local network for https websites.
	     whatweb --no-errors --url-prefix https://192.168.0.0/24

     Scan for crossdomain policies in the Alexa Top 1000.
	     ./whatweb	 -i   plugin-development/alexa-top-100.txt  --url-suffix
	    /crossdomain.xml -p crossdomain_xml

BUGS
     Report  bugs  and	feature   requests   to   https://github.com/urbanadven-
     turer/WhatWeb

AUTHOR
     Developed by Andrew Horton (urbanadventurer) and Brendan Coles (bcoles).

HOMEPAGE
     https://www.morningstarsecurity.com/research/whatweb

SOURCECODE
     https://github.com/urbanadventurer/WhatWeb/

			       December 14th, 2020		      WHATWEB(1)

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