Overview

A quick overview of what Tourmaline is, how to use it, and how to best read these docs.

Welcome to the Tourmaline documentation! In this overview, you'll learn:

  • What Tourmaline is

  • How to install tourmaline

  • Basic tourmaline usage

  • The format of these docs

These docs are still IN PROGRESS! Some pages may be inaccurate/unfinished.

What is Tourmaline?

Tourmaline is a command-line web enumeration tools. It's made to help pentesters gather information about a target website. Tourmaline includes the following tools:

  • A web spider (directory enumeration)

  • A brute forcer (directory enumeration)

  • A CMS detector

  • A file and data scraper

How do I use Tourmaline?

Tourmaline can be installed by downloading the latest release and unpacking it with:

sudo dpkg -i [FILE_NAME]

Where [FILE_NAME] is the name of the file you downloaded.

Tourmaline is currently only available for Debian Linux. Windows users should install WSL.

Once the tourmaline command has been installed, you can delete the downloaded file.

Usage

The tourmaline command takes basic POSIX syntax. It has 6 commands:

  • tourmaline spider

  • tourmaline brute

  • tourmaline cms

  • tourmaline scan

  • tourmaline fscraper

  • tourmaline dscraper

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