Aquatone

Visual inspection and screenshot tool for discovering websites at scale

Recon & OSINT6 commands

#screenshot#visual#recon#web

Installation

1Install using Go

2Or download from releases

3Verify installation

# Using Go
go install github.com/michenriksen/aquatone@latest

# Or download from releases
wget https://github.com/michenriksen/aquatone/releases/latest/download/aquatone_linux_amd64.zip
unzip aquatone_linux_amd64.zip

# Verify
aquatone -version

Basic Usage

Take screenshots of multiple websites and generate a visual report

# Screenshot hosts from stdin
cat hosts.txt | aquatone

# Screenshot with specific concurrency
cat hosts.txt | aquatone -threads 10

# Output to custom directory
cat hosts.txt | aquatone -out ./screenshots

# Scan specific ports
cat hosts.txt | aquatone -ports 80,443,8080

# Use HTTP proxy
cat hosts.txt | aquatone -proxy http://127.0.0.1:8080

Command Reference

6 commands

1Output directory for screenshots

-out

2Number of concurrent threads

-threads

3Ports to scan (default 80,443)

-ports

4HTTP proxy for requests

-proxy

5Page load timeout in seconds

-timeout

6Disable colored output

-no-color

When to Use

Visual recon of large subdomain lists

Generating visual reports for penetration tests

Identifying interesting targets from a large scope

Quick triage of web application screens

Notes & Tips

Generates an HTML report with screenshots for easy browsing

Automatically deduplicates hosts pointing to the same IP

Can integrate with nmap XML output for port-based scanning

Common Errors & Solutions

Chrome/Chromium not found

Ensure Chrome or Chromium is installed and in PATH

Screenshots are blank

Try increasing timeout with -timeout flag

# Using Go go install github.com/michenriksen/aquatone@latest # Or download from releases wget https://github.com/michenriksen/aquatone/releases/latest/download/aquatone_linux_amd64.zip unzip aquatone_linux_amd64.zip # Verify aquatone -version

# Screenshot hosts from stdin cat hosts.txt | aquatone # Screenshot with specific concurrency cat hosts.txt | aquatone -threads 10 # Output to custom directory cat hosts.txt | aquatone -out ./screenshots # Scan specific ports cat hosts.txt | aquatone -ports 80,443,8080 # Use HTTP proxy cat hosts.txt | aquatone -proxy http://127.0.0.1:8080