How To Install urlextractor on Ubuntu
Posted on April 1, 2023 (Last modified on May 20, 2023 )
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Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install urlextractor on Ubuntu.
What is urlextractor
urlextractor is:
urlextractor gathers information from the specified URL and prints it to STDOUT gathering the following information:
- IP and hosting info like city and country (using FreegeoIP)
- DNS servers (using dig)
- ASN, Network range, ISP name (using RISwhois)
- Load balancer test
- Whois for abuse mail (using Spamcop)
- PAC (Proxy Auto Configuration) file
- Compares hashes to diff code
- robots.txt (recursively looking for hidden stuff)
- Source code (looking for passwords and users)
- External links (frames from other websites)
- Directory FUZZ (like Dirbuster and Wfuzz - using Dirbuster) directory list)
- URLvoid API - checks Google page rank, Alexa rank and possible blacklists
- Provides useful links at other websites to correlate with IP/ASN
- Option to open ALL results in browser at the end
There are three methods to install urlextractor on Ubuntu. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install urlextractor Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install urlextractor using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install urlextractor
Install urlextractor Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install urlextractor using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install urlextractor
Install urlextractor Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install urlextractor using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install urlextractor
How To Uninstall urlextractor on Ubuntu
To uninstall only the urlextractor package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove urlextractor
Uninstall urlextractor And Its Dependencies
To uninstall urlextractor and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove urlextractor
Remove urlextractor Configurations and Data
To remove urlextractor configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge urlextractor
Remove urlextractor configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove urlextractor configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge urlextractor
Dependencies
urlextractor have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install urlextractor package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.