How To Install urlextractor on Debian 12

Learn how to install urlextractor on Debian 12 with this tutorial. urlextractor is Information gathering and website reconnaissance

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install urlextractor on Debian 12.

What is urlextractor

urlextractor is:

urlextractor gathers information from the specified URL and prints it to STDOUT gathering the following information:

  • IP and hosting info like city and country (using FreegeoIP)
  • DNS servers (using dig)
  • ASN, Network range, ISP name (using RISwhois)
  • Load balancer test
  • Whois for abuse mail (using Spamcop)
  • PAC (Proxy Auto Configuration) file
  • Compares hashes to diff code
  • robots.txt (recursively looking for hidden stuff)
  • Source code (looking for passwords and users)
  • External links (frames from other websites)
  • Directory FUZZ (like Dirbuster and Wfuzz - using Dirbuster) directory list)
  • URLvoid API - checks Google page rank, Alexa rank and possible blacklists
  • Provides useful links at other websites to correlate with IP/ASN
  • Option to open ALL results in browser at the end

There are three methods to install urlextractor on Debian 12. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install urlextractor Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install urlextractor using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install urlextractor

Install urlextractor Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install urlextractor using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install urlextractor

Install urlextractor Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install urlextractor using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install urlextractor

How To Uninstall urlextractor on Debian 12

To uninstall only the urlextractor package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove urlextractor

Uninstall urlextractor And Its Dependencies

To uninstall urlextractor and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove urlextractor

Remove urlextractor Configurations and Data

To remove urlextractor configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge urlextractor

Remove urlextractor configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove urlextractor configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge urlextractor

Dependencies

urlextractor have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install urlextractor package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.