Alternatives to dirsearch
Web path scanner for discovering hidden directories and files. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
dirsearch
Web path scanner for discovering hidden directories and files.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as dirsearch.
Feroxbuster
Discover web content during an authorized application assessment.
Feroxbuster offers recursive web content discovery with configurable settings, licensed MIT instead of GPL-2.0, and runs on the same Windows, macOS and Linux platforms.
Gobuster
Check candidate web paths and network names during security testing.
Gobuster adds discovery modes for network names alongside web paths in one command-line tool, and is licensed Apache-2.0 instead of GPL-2.0.
ffuf
Test variations in HTTP requests with a command-line fuzzer.
ffuf is a general HTTP fuzzer with configurable matching and filtering, so path discovery is one use among many, under the MIT license.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
SecLists
Find reusable test data for authorized security assessments.
Nikto
Web server scanner for risky files, outdated software and misconfigurations.
ZAP
Inspect and test web applications with the ZAP security proxy.
Burp Suite Community Edition
PortSwigger's free web security testing toolkit, for intercepting, inspecting and modifying HTTP traffic by hand.
Nuclei
A fast vulnerability scanner driven by YAML templates contributed by thousands of security researchers.
CeWL
Builds a custom wordlist by spidering a target website.
