SpiderFoot
Powerful OSINT scans, instantly in your browser
Details
- External ID
- 1265388
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- SpiderFoot
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Oct. 1, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 1
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.34585152838427946
- Tags
- Developer Tools, Security
- Fetched at
- Oct. 1, 2026, 5:01 p.m.
- Updated at
- Oct. 1, 2026, 5:01 p.m.
Description
SpiderFoot brings practical OSINT reconnaissance to the browser—no GitHub setup, Python environment, or local deployment. Search usernames, email addresses, and IPs to trace digital footprints and surface public exposure from one terminal-inspired interface. It’s fast to start, free to use, and built for security researchers, investigators, and anyone who needs lightweight asset reconnaissance.
Enrichment
- Theme
- network and uptime monitoring tools
- Vertical
- Security
- Function
- Search & retrieval
- Audience
- B2B
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- osint scanning tool for security professionals
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial The browser UI is simple to create, but orchestrating dozens of external OSINT feeds, rate-limiting, proxies, and managing hundreds of data source integrations requires a robust backend reconnaissance engine.
What it would actually take: Needs an asynchronous distributed job worker system (e.g., Celery/Temporal with Python/Go) querying 100+ public OSINT APIs, DNS lookups, Shodan, WHOIS, and web scrapers. The primary hurdle is managing API keys, rotating residential proxies to bypass bans, data normalization/deduplication into a graph structure, and streaming scan results via WebSockets back to the UI.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 25 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #13 of 26 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 323 days after the earliest competitor.
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- SearchIn · ph · 2026-09-23 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.37
- Cerberus Scan · ph · 2026-09-30 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.36
- I built a cross-browser extension that controls fingerprinting surfaces · hn · 2026-07-31 · 20 upvotes · similarity 0.35