Category: New Tool Requests

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Severity: minor

Priority: normal

Summary: MetaExtract - Modern document metadata extraction tool for OSINT (Metagoofil replacement)

Description:

[Name] MetaExtract

[Version] 3.0.0

[Homepage] https://github.com/cereZ23/metaextract

[Download] https://github.com/cereZ23/metaextract/releases/tag/v3.0.0

[Author] Andrea Ceresoni [email protected]
(Based on original Metagoofil by Christian Martorella, Edge-Security)

[Licence] GPL-2.0

[Description] MetaExtract is a complete Python 3.12+ rewrite of Metagoofil, the document metadata extraction tool for OSINT. It searches for documents on a target domain, downloads them, and extracts metadata including usernames, email addresses, software versions, and file paths.

The original Metagoofil in Kali is broken due to:

• Deprecated Python 2.x code
• Broken Google scraping

• Bundled obsolete libraries (hachoir 2011, old pdfminer)

  MetaExtract fixes all these issues with:

• Async architecture using aiohttp
• DuckDuckGo search (no API key required)
• Modern metadata libraries (pdfminer.six, python-docx, openpyxl, python-pptx)
• Rich CLI with progress indicators
• HTML and JSON report export

• Anti-rate-limiting with User-Agent rotation

  [Dependencies]

• Python >= 3.12
• aiohttp >= 3.9.0
• pdfminer.six >= 20231228
• python-docx >= 1.1.0
• openpyxl >= 3.1.2
• python-pptx >= 0.6.23
• olefile >= 0.47
• lxml >= 5.1.0
• click >= 8.1.7
• rich >= 13.7.0
• pydantic >= 2.5.0

• jinja2 >= 3.1.2

  [Similar tools]

• Metagoofil (original, currently broken in Kali)
• FOCA (Windows only)

• Recon-ng (broader scope)

  [Activity]

• Project started: December 2024
• Actively maintained: Yes
• CI/CD: GitHub Actions (Python 3.12, 3.13, Docker, Debian packaging)

• Last commit: December 2024

  [How to install]
  pip install -e .

  Or using virtual environment:
  python3 -m venv .venv
  source .venv/bin/activate
  pip install -e .

  Or Docker:
  docker build -t metaextract .

  [How to use]

  Search domain for documents and extract metadata

  metaextract -d example.com -t pdf,docx -n 50 -f report.html

  Analyze local files

  metaextract --local -o ./documents -f report.json

  With rate-limit protection

  metaextract -d example.com -t pdf --delay 5 -f report.html

  [Packaged]
  Yes - debian/ directory included with:

• debian/control
• debian/rules
• debian/changelog
• debian/copyright

• debian/source/format

  CI validates Debian packaging on every commit.