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Spyglass-Pro

One dashboard. Three recon engines. Zero packets sent to your target.

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Quick Start · Features · Architecture · Configuration · API · Contributing · Security · Audit


Why Spyglass-Pro?

Most OSINT tooling is a pile of scripts that assume you already know what to run, in what order, and how to read the output. Spyglass-Pro is a single dashboard that answers a different question: what is actually knowable about a target, and how do I know the answer is real?

  • Three engines, one interface. Spyglass-OSINT, a stealth social harness, and Lens-Extender are merged behind a single job pool that runs them in parallel and correlates the entities they each find.
  • Passive by construction, not by policy. Every probe that touched a target was deleted, not disabled — no flag, env var or config path brings it back. The audit lists every one so it can't quietly reappear.
  • It refuses to lie to you. A follower list behind a login is reported as walled with a reason, never as an empty list. A recon leg that can't run is named in /api/status. A partial result never renders like a complete one.
  • Honest degradation is a feature, not a bug report. Run it bare and it tells you exactly which panels are breach-only instead of quietly showing you nothing.

Built for people who need the truth. OSINT tools are dual-use. Only investigate systems and accounts you own or have explicit permission to test. See Responsible use.


Table of Contents


Quick Start

Copy-paste ready. No API keys, no accounts, no configuration.

git clone https://github.com/Ahmad170412/Spyglass-PRO.git && cd Spyglass-PRO
python3 -m venv .venv && source .venv/bin/activate
pip install -e .

python run.py

Open http://127.0.0.1:5000.

That's it — Website, IP Address and Full Investigation work immediately on a bare install. To light up the email/username/phone panels:

python scripts/install_tools.py --check    # see what's missing
python scripts/install_tools.py            # install the missing ones

run.py adds the venv, pipx and blackbird locations to PATH itself, so the server finds your engines even when launched from cron, a container or a launch agent instead of a login shell.


Features

Feature What it actually does
Website DNS records, SPF/DMARC/CAA, passive subdomains from crt.sh + CertSpotter + HackerTarget + Wayback, WHOIS with IANA referral-following, history
Email holehe + user-scanner + blackbird sweeps, cross-tool agreement, LeakCheck + Scylla breach data
Username sherlock + maigret + user-scanner + blackbird, with four-way overlap categories
Phone phoneinfoga + ignorant, plus breach correlation
IP Address InternetDB, RDAP, RIPEstat, reverse DNS, DNSBL, Shodan
Dark web HIBP, IntelX, DeHashed, onion lookup via Tor
Investigation Runs every engine in parallel and correlates shared emails, IPs, domains and usernames
OPSEC Local self-check: your real IP, proxy status, DNS-leak exposure, timezone/geo fingerprint risk
Metadata ExifTool + PDF/OOXML/image fallbacks, MD5/SHA-256, GPS, with file-type reconciliation
Social Instagram (stealth browser) + Mastodon and Bluesky (keyless, instant), one registry-driven panel
Cases Encrypted-at-rest run history with entity diffing, timelines and dossier export

Architecture

graph LR
    UI[Dashboard<br/>Flask + vanilla JS] --> AUTH[[Auth gate<br/>Bearer token]]
    AUTH --> POOL[Job pool<br/>queue cap · 429 · timeouts]
    POOL --> SG[spyglass_osint<br/>email · username · phone<br/>website · ip · darkweb<br/>opsec · metadata]
    POOL --> LENS[lens_extender<br/>IP / domain recon]
    POOL --> SOC[social harness<br/>registry-driven adapters]
    SG --> STORE[(Case store<br/>Fernet at rest)]
    LENS --> STORE
    SOC --> STORE
    SG -. shells out to .-> CLI[holehe · sherlock<br/>maigret · ignorant · blackbird]
    UI --> EXT[(JSON / CSV / MD<br/>export artifacts)]

    style POOL fill:#1e293b,stroke:#6366f1,color:#e2e8f0
    style STORE fill:#1e293b,stroke:#06b6d4,color:#e2e8f0
    style UI fill:#1e293b,stroke:#8b5cf6,color:#e2e8f0

Every box under POOL only ever talks to third-party services. There is no edge from any of them to the target.


Installation

Requirements: Python 3.10+ (tested on 3.10–3.13 in CI), macOS, Linux or Windows.

git clone https://github.com/Ahmad170412/Spyglass-PRO.git && cd Spyglass-PRO
python3 -m venv .venv && source .venv/bin/activate
pip install -e .

Then:

python run.py                 # dev server on 127.0.0.1:5000
python -m spyglass_pro        # equivalent
spyglass-pro                  # console entry point
Social recon needs one more package

The Instagram panel drives a real browser via cloakbrowser, which is deliberately not a core dependency — it pulls a ~200 MB browser binary and wants a license key:

pip install cloakbrowser

Every other panel works without it.


Optional CLI engines

The email, username and phone modules are orchestrators: they shell out to external CLI engines rather than collecting themselves.

python scripts/install_tools.py --check    # report which are missing
python scripts/install_tools.py            # install the missing ones

This covers sherlock, maigret, holehe, ignorant, blackbird and torsocks. The script is idempotent — re-running it only installs what is still missing.

Phone lookup additionally uses phoneinfoga and user-scanner:

brew install phoneinfoga                   # macOS
pipx install user-scanner                  # or: pip install user-scanner

What you get without them

Degrading without an error is not the same as being useful, so here is exactly what a bare install can and cannot do:

Module With engines Without engines
Email holehe + user-scanner + blackbird sweeps, plus breach breach data only
Username sherlock + maigret + blackbird sweeps, plus breach breach data only
Phone phoneinfoga + ignorant, plus breach breach data only

Breach checking (LeakCheck + Scylla) needs no account and no CLI tool, so it works on a bare install. Website, IP Address and Full Investigation need no external recon engines and work immediately.

To confirm what the running server can see, GET /api/status returns a per-tool true/false map, a missing_tools list and a per-panel degraded map.

holehe and ignorant enumerate which platforms an email or phone number is registered on. That is active account enumeration against third-party services and it sits against Spyglass-Pro's passive-only posture. Only use them on identifiers you own or have permission to test.


Passive-only

Spyglass-Pro never opens a connection to a target. Every query goes to a third party: DNS resolvers, Certificate Transparency logs, WHOIS registries, InternetDB, RDAP, RIPEstat, Wayback, crt.sh, CertSpotter, HackerTarget and breach databases. Shodan, GreyNoise, Censys, AbuseIPDB, VirusTotal and NVD enrichment are wired but need an API key.

There is no port scan, no directory brute force, no HTTP probing of discovered hosts, no zone-transfer attempt and not even a fetch of the target's homepage. That code was removed, not disabled — the audit inventory lists every removed function, so none of it can be switched back on by configuration or a stray flag.

Where the line sits: ordinary DNS record lookups (A, MX, NS, TXT, SPF, DMARC, CNAME) are still made, because no useful host recon exists without them and every OSINT tool treats them as passive.

What that costs you, plainly: no HTTP headers, no TLS certificate or cipher details, no technology fingerprinting, no robots.txt or sitemap, no page content, no favicon hash and no exposed-file findings. Active collection lives in a separate project.


Configuration

All settings are environment variables (CLI flags exist for the basics — see spyglass-pro --help):

Variable Default Purpose
SPYGLASS_PRO_HOST 127.0.0.1 Bind address
SPYGLASS_PRO_PORT 5000 Port
SPYGLASS_PRO_TOKEN — Require this Bearer token on every /api/* route
SPYGLASS_PRO_SECRET random per process Flask SECRET_KEY
SPYGLASS_PRO_DEBUG 0 Werkzeug debug mode (RCE console — never enable on a reachable host)
SPYGLASS_PRO_MAX_QUEUE 16 Max pending scan jobs before a 429
SPYGLASS_PRO_JOB_TIMEOUT 900 Seconds a request waits for a job
SPYGLASS_PROXY — Proxy for every outgoing query
SPYGLASS_HOME ~/.spyglass Case store location
SPYGLASS_STORE_KEY — Base64 32-byte Fernet key for data at rest
SPYGLASS_STORE_PASS — Derive the Fernet key from a password instead

Non-loopback deployments must set SPYGLASS_PRO_TOKEN; the server warns at startup if you don't:

SPYGLASS_PRO_TOKEN=$(openssl rand -hex 24) python3 run.py

API

Every route is under /api/* and requires the Bearer token when SPYGLASS_PRO_TOKEN is set.

# What's installed, what's missing, what degraded
curl -H "Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN" http://127.0.0.1:5000/api/status

# Run a module
curl "http://127.0.0.1:5000/api/spyglass/run?module=website&target=example.com" \
     -H "Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN"

# Correlated multi-input investigation
curl -X POST http://127.0.0.1:5000/api/investigate/run \
     -H "Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN" \
     -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
     -d '{"website":"example.com","email":"user@example.com"}'

# Stored-run queries
curl "http://127.0.0.1:5000/api/cases/diff?target=example.com&qtype=website" \
     -H "Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN"
Endpoint Purpose
GET /api/status Engines, platforms, per-tool availability, missing_tools, degraded
GET /api/spyglass/run Run one spyglass module (module, target, + flags)
GET /api/lens/run Lens-Extender passive recon
POST /api/investigate/run Parallel multi-input investigation
GET /api/social/platforms Registered adapters and their capabilities
POST /api/social/run Collect one social profile
GET /api/cases · /diff · /timeline · /profile Stored-run queries
GET/POST /api/proxy Read or set the outbound proxy (scheme-validated)

A busy server returns HTTP 429 for a full job queue, distinct from a scan that ran and failed — so a client can tell back-pressure from a broken payload.


Cases

Every scan can be stored. Stored runs keep a full result snapshot plus an entity index (domains, IPs, emails, phones, orgs, onions, breaches), which is what the Stored Cases panel reads:

  • Diff last two runs — entities that appeared or disappeared since the previous run of the same target and query type.
  • Timeline — every stored run of a target, oldest first.
  • Export dossier — the latest run per query type merged into one JSON profile.

Data at rest is encrypted with Fernet when SPYGLASS_STORE_KEY or SPYGLASS_STORE_PASS is set; otherwise it is stored in plaintext. JSON/CSV/ report artifacts from a scan land in the working directory of the run.


Testing

.venv/bin/python tests/run_tests.py

308 offline checks — the three engines' own suites plus the merge layer (API surface, auth gate, proxy validation, job pool, target validation, case queries, cross-platform filename and decoding behaviour). No network, no browser, finishes in about a second.

CI runs the suite on Python 3.10–3.13, lints with ruff, and asserts the built wheel actually carries LICENSE, NOTICE and all three vendored engines.


Platforms

macOS, Linux and Windows are supported, and the suite runs on each. Two platform differences are worth knowing before you file a bug:

  • Windows has no dig or whois. The DNS legs fall back to Python's resolver and the HTTP legs to urllib, so the modules still run — but DNS record tables, SPF/DMARC and WHOIS come back thinner until you install the tools. GET /api/status lists exactly which are missing on your machine.
  • Windows reserved filenames. CON, PRN, AUX, NUL, COM1–COM9 and LPT1–LPT9 cannot be used as filenames in any case, so Spyglass-Pro prefixes them rather than producing artifacts that fail to open there.

Project structure

run.py                     dev entry point
scripts/install_tools.py   idempotent CLI-engine installer
tests/                     308 offline checks (run_tests.py)
assets/logo.svg            README logo
spyglass_pro/
  app.py                   Flask routes + auth gate + proxy validation
  runner.py                job pool (queue cap, timeouts), engine dispatch
  social/                  multi-platform social harness (schema, registry,
                           adapters) — merge layer, not vendored
  cli.py                   `spyglass-pro` console entry point
  templates/ static/       dashboard UI
  modules/                 vendored engines (see NOTICE)

The three engines live behind a directory boundary on purpose, so the next sync from upstream is mechanical. NOTICE records exactly where each copy differs from its origin — including the four bug fixes that exist only here.


Contributing

Read CONTRIBUTING.md. The short version: the passive-only rule overrides everything else, new behaviour needs a test that fails without it, and a partial result must never look like a complete one.


Responsible use

OSINT tools are dual-use. Only investigate systems and accounts you own or have explicit permission to test.

Instagram collection may violate those platforms' terms of service. Because Spyglass-Pro is passive-only it does not touch a target's network — but the social module still drives a real browser against a real account, so use burner credentials you are willing to lose. Passive queries also disclose your investigation target to third-party services and your source IP to all of them; use a proxy if that matters to you.

You are responsible for compliance with applicable laws.


License

MIT — see LICENSE. One copyright holder covers this repository in full, including the engines under spyglass_pro/modules/; NOTICE records where those came from and why they are kept behind a directory boundary.

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