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WebSift

WebSift is an OSINT ethical hacking tool designed to scrape and extract emails, phone numbers, and social media links or other URLs from websites. It is developed for Termux and Linux-based systems

From s-r-e-e-r-a-j·Updated June 20, 2026·View on GitHub·

WebSift is a powerful ethical hacking and OSINT (Open-Source Intelligence) tool designed to extract email addresses, phone numbers, social media links, and other links from websites. It is developed for Termux and Linux-based systems. This tool is ideal for security professionals and researchers who need to gather publicly available information for ethical and legal purposes. The project is written primarily in Shell, distributed under the MIT License license, first published in 2024. Key topics include: bash, bash-script, bash-tool, emailfinder, emailscrapping.

WebSift

WebSift is a powerful ethical hacking and OSINT (Open-Source Intelligence) tool designed to extract email addresses, phone numbers, social media links, and other links from websites. It is developed for Termux and Linux-based systems. This tool is ideal for security professionals and researchers who need to gather publicly available information for ethical and legal purposes.

Features

  • Scrapes email addresses from a given website.
  • Extracts phone numbers in standard formats.
  • Scrapes social media links and other URLs from websites to enhance OSINT capabilities
  • Saves the extracted information for further analysis.
  • Automatically checks and installs missing dependencies (curl, grep, wget).
  • Compatible with Termux and Linux distributions

Note

This tool may show wrong phone numbers because phone number scraping is not fully accurate.
I already made a Python tool called WebExtractor, which gives accurate phone numbers.

WebSift works best for scraping emails and links, but WebExtractor gives accurate results for everything, including links, phone numbers, and emails.

WebExtractor repo link: WebExtractor

Dependencies

WebSift automatically checks for and installs the following dependencies if they are missing:

  • curl
  • grep
  • wget

No manual installation is required!

Disclaimer

This tool is for educational and ethical OSINT purposes only. Use it only on websites you own or have explicit permission to analyze. The developer is not responsible for any misuse.

Installation

  1. Clone the Repository
bash
git clone https://github.com/s-r-e-e-r-a-j/WebSift.git
  1. Navigate to the WebSift directory
bash
cd WebSift
  1. Navigate to the WebSift directory
bash
cd WebSift
  1. Run the Script
bash
bash websift.sh

Usage

  1. Provide a valid URL when prompted.

  2. Choose whether to extract email addresses, phone numbers, social media links, other links, or all three

  3. Optionally save the extracted data to a folder.

Example

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   \ \        / / | |      / ____(_)/ _| |                                                                                                                                                   
    \ \  /\  / /__| |__   | (___  _| |_| |_                                                                                                                                                  
     \ \/  \/ / _ \ '_ \   \___ \| |  _| __|                                                                                                                                                 
      \  /\  /  __/ |_) |  ____) | | | | |_                                                                                                                                                  
       \/  \/ \___|_.__/  |_____/|_|_|  \__|                                                                                                                                                 
                                                                                                                                                                                             
                         Developer: Sreeraj                                                                                                                                                  
                                                                                                                                                                                             
* Email, Phone Number, and Links Scraper Tool
* GitHub: https://github.com/s-r-e-e-r-a-j
                                                                                                                                  
[!] Checking internet connection...                                                                                                                                                          
[*] Connected to the internet.                                                                                                                                                               
[*] Enter URL to begin : http://testphp.vulnweb.com                                                                                                                                          
[*] Scrape emails from website? (y/n) : y                                                                                                                                                    
[*] Scrape phone numbers from website? (y/n) : y                                                                                                                                             
[*] Scrape social media links or other links? (y/n) : y                                                                                                                                      
[!] Scraping started                                                                                                                                                                         
[*] Emails extracted successfully:                                                                                                                                                           
wvs@acunetix.com                                                                                                                                                                             
[*] Phone numbers extracted successfully:                                                                                                                                                    
4445535400                                                                                                                                                                                   
[*] Social media links and other links extracted successfully:                                                                                                                               
http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,29,0                                                                                                         
https://www.acunetix.com/blog/articles/prevent-sql-injection-vulnerabilities-in-php-applications/                                                                                            
https://www.acunetix.com/vulnerability-scanner/                                                                                                                                              
https://www.acunetix.com/vulnerability-scanner/php-security-scanner/                                                                                                                         
http://www.eclectasy.com/Fractal-Explorer/index.html                                                                                                                                         
http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash                                                                                                        
http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd                                                                                                                                                         
[*] Do you want to save the output (y/n) : y                                                                                                                                                 
[*] Enter folder name : result                                                                                                                                                               
[*] Output saved successfully in result                                                                                                                                                      
[!] Exiting....

License

This tool is open-source and available under the MIT License.

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