# Installer uncover avec Homebrew, Nix

Consultez les chemins d'installation, exécutables, métadonnées et notes de sécurité de uncover pour les workflows d'agents IA.

## installation

```sh
sudo av install brew:uncover
```

Commandes d'installation supplémentaires:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install uncover
```

  Preuve: local Homebrew formula metadata

### Linux

- Nix (92%):

```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#uncover
```

  Preuve: nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/un/uncover/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1

## Faits du paquet

- **Clé du paquet:** brew:uncover
- **Gestionnaire de paquets:** Homebrew
- **Page du gestionnaire de paquets:** <https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/uncover>
- **Version:** 1.2.1
- **Résumé source:** Tool to discover exposed hosts on the internet using multiple search engines
- **Page d'accueil:** <https://github.com/projectdiscovery/uncover>
- **Dépôt:** <https://github.com/projectdiscovery/uncover>
- **Licence:** MIT
- **Archive source:** <https://github.com/projectdiscovery/uncover/archive/refs/tags/v1.2.1.tar.gz>
- **Dernière mise à jour:** 2026-07-25T21:47:59+02:00
- **Généré:** 2026-08-04T22:13:35+00:00

## exécutables

- uncover (cli)
- uncover (alias)

## Dépendances de compilation

- go

## Comportement d'installation

- hook post-installation: non défini
- Bouteille: disponible sur arm64_linux, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, sonoma, x86_64_linux

## Version et fraîcheur

- page générée: 2026-08-04
- version du gestionnaire: 1.2.1
- gestionnaire mis à jour: 2026-07-25
- données locales: OK
- dépôt amont: https://github.com/projectdiscovery/uncover
- dernière version détectée: v1.2.1 (à jour)
## Historique du projet et usages

uncover is a ProjectDiscovery reconnaissance CLI that queries public internet search engines to discover exposed hosts. Its history is recent, but it fits a well-defined package-nerd niche: small Go security tools that compose through stdin/stdout and API-key-backed provider configuration.

### Historique du projet

ProjectDiscovery's official docs describe uncover as a Go wrapper using APIs from well-known search engines to quickly discover exposed hosts on the internet. The GitHub repository was created in 2022, and its first public tag/release series began with 0.0.1 in March 2022.

The official ProjectDiscovery blog frames uncover as a CLI for simplifying Shodan, Censys, ZoomEye, FOFA, and related internet-search workflows, especially inside automation pipelines. Later releases expanded provider support and added features such as multiple API keys and output customization.

### Historique d'adoption

uncover belongs to the broader ProjectDiscovery ecosystem of security automation tools. Official ProjectDiscovery documentation emphasizes CLI and Cloud workflows for asset discovery and vulnerability management, and the project's llms.txt lists uncover among the major open-source tools.

The input package metadata shows package-manager availability in Homebrew and Nix. In practice, uncover's adoption is strongest among security engineers, bug-bounty hunters, and recon automation users who already chain tools such as httpx, nuclei, subfinder, and naabu.

### Modes d'utilisation

The docs describe querying multiple search engines at once, using provider API keys, randomizing across multiple keys, and integrating results with existing pipeline tools. The README documents `go install` installation and flags for query input, engine selection, and awesome-search-queries support.

Package-manager users install uncover to avoid maintaining a separate Go build checkout and to keep the binary updated alongside the rest of a recon toolkit. The important operational state is the provider configuration file that stores search-engine API keys.

### Pourquoi les passionnés de paquets s'y intéressent

uncover is significant in the security package niche because it normalizes many proprietary search APIs behind one CLI. That makes it easy to slot into shell pipelines, CI-style reconnaissance jobs, and ProjectDiscovery-style workflows.

It is young compared with classic Unix tools, but its value is exactly the modern package-manager value proposition: one small binary, fast updates, many upstream integrations, and predictable config paths.

### Chronologie

- 2022: GitHub repository created and 0.0.1 release published.
- 2022: ProjectDiscovery blog introduces uncover as a CLI for discovering exposed hosts and vulnerable instances.
- 2022: v1.0.0 release published.
- 2025: v1.0.10 adds new search-query and provider support.
- 2026: v1.2.1 release published.

### Related projects

- ProjectDiscovery tools such as nuclei, httpx, subfinder, naabu, dnsx, and cloudlist are adjacent tools in the same security automation ecosystem.
- Supported search/provider ecosystems include Shodan, Censys, FOFA, Hunter, Quake, ZoomEye, Netlas, CriminalIP, PublicWWW, HunterHow, Google, Onyphe, Driftnet, DayDayMap, and NerdyData as documented by official sources.

### Sources

- GitHub repository and release metadata via `gh api repos/projectdiscovery/uncover` and `gh api repos/projectdiscovery/uncover/releases`
- <https://docs.projectdiscovery.io/opensource/uncover/overview>
- <https://github.com/projectdiscovery/uncover>
- <https://projectdiscovery.io/blog/uncover>
- <https://projectdiscovery.io/llms.txt>
- source_facts.package-manager


## Notes de sécurité

Aucun manifest local de gestion des secrets correspondant n'a été trouvé pour uncover. Les métadonnées de paquet restent publiées ici afin que la couverture future dispose d'une URL stable.



## Configuration and credential file locations

These source-backed paths show where this package keeps local settings or durable credentials. Automic Vault can use them as review targets for secret scanning, migration, and command approval.


## Configuration files

- Unix: ~/.config/uncover/config.yaml

## Credential files

- Unix: ~/.config/uncover/provider-config.yaml
## Détails de la base source

- **Source Database:** Homebrew formula API
- **Tap:** homebrew/core
- **Full Name:** uncover
- **Version Scheme:** 0
- **Revision:** 0
- **Head Version:** HEAD
- **Bottle Stable Root URL:** <https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core>
- **Deprecated:** no
- **Disabled:** no
- **Keg Only:** no
- **URL Keys:** head, stable

## Autres enregistrements de gestionnaires de paquets

- Nix - uncover: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/un/uncover/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1


## Liens liés

- [Source-control packages](https://pkg.so/fr/source-control-tools/) - Belongs to a source-control command family.
- [Terminal utility packages](https://pkg.so/fr/terminal-utilities/) - Matched terminal and command-line workflow metadata.
- [Text processing packages](https://pkg.so/fr/text-processing-tools/) - Matched text, document, or structured-data processing metadata.
- [Networking and protocol packages](https://pkg.so/fr/networking-protocol-tools/) - Matched network, protocol, or remote-service metadata.
- [go](https://pkg.so/fr/brew/go/) - Build dependency declared by Homebrew.
- [amass](https://pkg.so/fr/brew/amass/) - Shares pkgdb curated category or tags: asset-discovery, cli, osint, reconnaissance, security.
- [subfinder](https://pkg.so/fr/brew/subfinder/) - Shares pkgdb curated category or tags: cli, osint, reconnaissance, security.
- [theharvester](https://pkg.so/fr/brew/theharvester/) - Shares pkgdb curated category or tags: cli, osint, reconnaissance, security.
- [bbot](https://pkg.so/fr/brew/bbot/) - Shares pkgdb curated category or tags: cli, osint, reconnaissance, security.
- [phoneinfoga](https://pkg.so/fr/brew/phoneinfoga/) - Shares pkgdb curated category or tags: cli, osint, reconnaissance, security.
- [recon-ng](https://pkg.so/fr/brew/recon-ng/) - Shares pkgdb curated category or tags: cli, osint, reconnaissance, security.
- [sn0int](https://pkg.so/fr/brew/sn0int/) - Shares pkgdb curated category or tags: cli, osint, reconnaissance, security.
- [favirecon](https://pkg.so/fr/brew/favirecon/) - Shares pkgdb curated category or tags: cli, osint, reconnaissance, security.
- [cloudlist](https://pkg.so/fr/brew/cloudlist/) - Security-sensitive metadata or terminology overlaps. Shared terms: asset, asset-discovery, cli, discovery, multiple.
- [maigret](https://pkg.so/fr/brew/maigret/) - Security-sensitive metadata or terminology overlaps. Shared terms: cli, osint, reconnaissance, search, security.

## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/uncover.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/uncover.yml)


## Sources

- pkg.so package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- package-page enrichment
- curated configuration and credential file locations
- curated package history
- package version freshness
- pkgdb category and tag curation
- package relationship graph
- external package-manager database matches
- cross-ecosystem install command graph
