New release: v2.3.0

How to install and run SpiderFoot 2.5.1 on Kali 2:

apt-get install python-m2crypto python-netaddr python-cherrypy3 python-mako python-lxml
tar xf spiderfoot-2.5.1-src.tar.gz
cd spiderfoot-2.5.1
./sf.py

xdg-open http://127.0.0.1:5001/

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• [Name] - SpiderFoot
• [Version] - Latest
• [Homepage] - http://www.spiderfoot.net/
• [Download] - http://www.spiderfoot.net/download/ or https://github.com/smicallef/spiderfoot/releases
• [Author] - Steve Micallef - http://www.binarypool.com
• [Licence] - GPL
• [Description] - SpiderFoot is an open source intelligence automation tool. Its goal is to automate the process of gathering intelligence about a given target, which may be an IP address, domain name, hostname or network subnet. SpiderFoot can be used offensively, i.e. as part of a black-box penetration test to gather information about the target or defensively to identify what information your organisation is freely providing for attackers to use against you.
• [Dependencies] - Python, https://github.com/smicallef/spiderfoot/blob/master/requirements.txt
• [Similar tools] - Haven't researched.
• [How to install] - python setup.py install probably
• [How to use] - Detailed on their website. GUI/CLI.

Author here.. here are the answers built upon the one Mister_X provided:

• [Name] - SpiderFoot
• [Version] - Latest (2.12, or by the time of the next Kali release, 3.0)
• [Homepage] - http://www.spiderfoot.net/
• [Download] - http://www.spiderfoot.net/download/ or https://github.com/smicallef/spiderfoot/releases
• [Author] - Steve Micallef - http://www.binarypool.com
• [Licence] - GPL
• [Description] - SpiderFoot is an open source intelligence automation tool. Its goal is to automate the process of gathering intelligence about a given target, which may be an IP address, domain name, hostname or network subnet. SpiderFoot can be used offensively, i.e. as part of a black-box penetration test to gather information about the target or defensively to identify what information your organisation is freely providing for attackers to use against you.
• [Dependencies] - Python 2.7, https://github.com/smicallef/spiderfoot/blob/master/requirements.txt
• [Similar tools] - recon-ng, DataSploit, Maltego
• [How to install] - https://asciinema.org/a/126130 or http://www.spiderfoot.net/documentation/#installing
• [How to use] - http://www.spiderfoot.net/documentation/ and https://asciinema.org/~spiderfoot

This looks like a nice tool that is well documented. Worth adding.

I started to package spiderfoot.
@smicallef, you ship some Python modules in ext/ (without any modifications?) and other modules are listed in requirements.txt
I was wondering why you handle the dependencies in these 2 different ways?

As in Kali we are trying to not ship modules with applications but to have separate packages for each Python modules.

Hi @sbrun, it's done that way because I've wanted to minimise the number of modules the user has to install, so what's gone into ext/ has typically been the smaller/niche variety. I'm currently however working on SpiderFoot 3.0 which will be following the model you mention, so probably hold off on this for a couple of weeks and I'll post here when 3.0 is available.

Hi @smicallef, thanks. I will wait for the new release 3.0.

Hi @smicallef,
Any news of the next release?

@kali-team, please could this be packaged up.
@author, If you want to help the packaging process, you can check the documentation here ~ https://www.kali.org/docs/development/public-packaging

New release I believe is out =)

FWIW, 3.0 is now officially out and fully Python 3 based. Installing and running is basically a pip3 install -r requirements.txt && python3 ./sf.py -l 0.0.0.0:5001 (or whatever IP:port combo you like).

https://github.com/smicallef/spiderfoot/releases/tag/v3.0

Package spiderfoot version 3.0-0kali1 is now in kali-dev