Syphon: HTML Comment Harvester

Syphon is a Python-based tool designed to harvest HTML comments from web pages.
It allows users to scrape comments from multiple pages, organize them into sections, and log them into a text file.

Features

• Scrapes HTML comments from any website.
• Supports wordlists for directory traversal.
• Supports custom request timeout.
• Logs server errors (f.e., 403 and 404).
• Exports results.

Dependencies

• beautifulsoup4

Examples

Simple URL Scan

http/https protocol is required.

python3 syphon.py https://example.com

or

python3 syphon.py https://example.com/specificdir

Scan with Wordlist

Syphon Wordlist scans:

• ignore absolute paths. only the domain will be used, following the wordlist's directories.
• operate only on indicated directories. To include the homepage, leave a blank line in the wordlist.

python3 syphon.py https://example.com -w selectedWordlist.txt

Scan with custom Timeout

if not specified, the default timeout value is 5 seconds

python3 syphon.py https://example.com -t 7

Scan with custom Output file

If not specified, Syphon will create a default output file, named "syphonResults.txt", at the location it was run.

python3 syphon.py https://example.com -o specificName.txt

Scan using all parameters

python3 syphon.py https://example.com -w selectedWordlist.txt -t 10 -o specificName.txt