What problem it solves

Security reconnaissance often requires combining multiple discovery techniques across domains, web services, email addresses, code, and other assets. BBOT provides a recursive scanning framework that can automate these tasks through presets, modules, and multiple output formats.

Key features

• Recursive reconnaissance — BBOT recursively scans targets and can combine DNS brute-force, passive APIs, web crawling, and other modules to expand the discovered attack surface.

  Source: README

• Task-specific presets — Presets provide focused scans for tasks such as subdomain enumeration, email gathering, web crawling, and lightweight or aggressive web scanning.

  Source: README

• Broad target support — Scans can accept multiple targets on the command line or in files, including DNS names, IP addresses and ranges, URLs, email addresses, organizations, usernames, filesystems, and mobile apps.

  Source: README

• Multiple output formats — Scan events can be sent to databases, messaging platforms, search systems, and file formats including CSV, JSON, HTTP, and Websocket.

  Source: README

• Python API — BBOT can be embedded in Python applications through synchronous and asynchronous Scanner interfaces.

  Source: README

Quick start

Copied verbatim from the project's README.

# stable version
pipx install bbot

# bleeding edge (dev branch)
pipx install --pip-args '\--pre' bbot

Who it may suit

This may suit security researchers, bug bounty hunters, and attack-surface teams who need a modular reconnaissance workflow. It may also suit Python developers who want to incorporate scanning into custom applications.

Topics to discuss

• Which preset or module combinations are most effective for your reconnaissance workflows?

• Which output integrations would most improve collaboration and analysis?

• What new module, target type, or automation capability should the community prioritize next?

Written by ReadmeX AI from the project's README, source and public GitHub data; it may contain mistakes.

Read the original README https://github.com/blacklanternsecurity/bbot#readme

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