Python directory finder (dirb)

If for some reason you find yourself on a machine you cannot get dirb or dirbuster on here is some quick code for how to achieve similar results using python 3.

It takes a word list from your common.txt file (change the name in the code if needed) and tries to connect to the url you have given it + each line in the .txt file and then gives a positive result if the full url path gives back a response.

The code doesn’t have any sort of rate limiting so if your target has systems in place to block DOS attacks you may start getting false negatives.

#!/user/bin/python
#scans for web directories from a word list
#replace common.txt with your wordlist
#for python 3

import requests

def requests(url):
    try:
        return requests.get("http://" + url)
    except requests.exceptions.ConnectionError:
        pass

target_url = input("Enter Target URL: ")

file = open("common.txt","r")
for line in file:
    word = line.strip()
    full_url = target_url + "/" + word
    response = request(full_url)
    if response:
        print("Discovered directory at this link: " + full_url)

The code comes courtesy of a course on Udemy taught by the very eloquent Eduardo Rosas

Advertisement