# Installer theharvester avec Homebrew, Nix

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

## installation

```sh
sudo av install brew:theharvester
```

Commandes d'installation supplémentaires:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install theharvester
```

  Preuve: local Homebrew formula metadata

### Linux

- Nix (92%):

```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#theharvester
```

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

## Faits du paquet

- **Clé du paquet:** brew:theharvester
- **Gestionnaire de paquets:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 4.11.1
- **Résumé source:** Gather materials from public sources (for pen testers)
- **Page d'accueil:** <https://www.edge-security.com>
- **Dépôt:** <https://github.com/laramies/theHarvester>
- **Dernière mise à jour:** 2026-06-16T13:15:41Z
- **Généré:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## exécutables

- restfulHarvest (alias)
- theHarvester (alias)
- theharvester (alias)

## Comportement d'installation

- Bouteille: non disponible

## Version et fraîcheur

- page générée: 2026-08-03
- version du gestionnaire: 4.11.1
## Historique du projet et usages

theHarvester is an OSINT and reconnaissance tool for gathering emails, names, subdomains, IPs, and URLs from public data sources during the early stages of a penetration test. The official wiki describes it as simple but effective for mapping an organization's external threat landscape.

### Historique du projet

The project is maintained in the laramies/theHarvester repository and is described by its README as an emails, subdomains, and names harvester for OSINT. Over time it has become a Python security tool with a long module list: the README enumerates passive data sources such as search engines, certificate transparency services, threat-intelligence APIs, code search, and internet-exposure databases.

### Historique d'adoption

The official installation wiki explicitly says the easiest way to use theHarvester is through Kali Linux, where users can run `theHarvester -h`. The same page also documents pipx, Docker, and source-based installation, while the repository page shows a large GitHub audience and dozens of official releases. In package-manager culture, its presence in Homebrew and Nix gives macOS and reproducible-environment users a route to a tool historically associated with security distributions.

### Modes d'utilisation

Typical use is passive reconnaissance: users configure API keys when needed, select modules or data sources, and collect public-facing identifiers for a target domain. The README's passive module list shows why API-key management matters: many useful sources have quotas, pricing, or authenticated access, and the wiki documents where `api-keys.yaml` lives under packaged and cloned installs.

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

theHarvester matters to package nerds because it is a classic security CLI that crosses the boundary between specialist pentest distros and general-purpose package managers. A Homebrew formula turns a Kali-associated recon workflow into a one-command install on macOS, while the tool's module list creates a constant packaging concern around Python dependencies, browser automation, and optional API credentials.

### Chronologie

- 2020: Official GitHub wiki home page revision describes the tool's early-pentest OSINT role.
- 2025-2026: Official GitHub tags page shows active 4.x releases.
- 2026: Installation wiki documents Kali, pipx, Docker, and source workflows.
- 2026: Repository page shows release 4.11.1 as the latest release on June 3, 2026.

### Related projects

- Related tools include other OSINT and recon CLIs such as subdomain enumerators, certificate-transparency query tools, internet search APIs, Shodan-like asset search tools, and Kali Linux reconnaissance utilities. theHarvester's niche is aggregating many public sources behind one command-line interface.

### Sources

- <https://github.com/laramies/theHarvester#readme - official README for install/run commands, passive modules, contributors, topics, releases, and project description.>
- <https://github.com/laramies/theHarvester/tags - official GitHub tags page for 4.x release timeline.>
- <https://github.com/laramies/theHarvester/wiki - official wiki description of purpose and early penetration-test use.>
- <https://github.com/laramies/theHarvester/wiki/Installation - official installation and API-key location notes, including Kali, pipx, Docker, source install, and api-keys paths.>


## Notes de sécurité

Aucun manifest local de gestion des secrets correspondant n'a été trouvé pour theharvester. Les métadonnées de paquet Nucleus 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.


## Credential files

- Linux: /etc/theHarvester/api-keys.yml, api-keys.yaml
- macOS: /usr/local/etc/theharvester/api-keys.yaml, api-keys.yaml
## Autres enregistrements de gestionnaires de paquets

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


## Combined YAML source

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


## Sources

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