GHunt is an OSINT tool to extract information from any Google Account using an email.
It can currently extract:
- Owner's name
- Last time the profile was edited
- Google ID
- If the account is a Hangouts Bot
- Activated Google services (YouTube, Photos, Maps, News360, Hangouts, etc.)
- Possible YouTube channel
- Possible other usernames
- Public photos
- Phone models
- Phone firmwares
- Installed software
- Google Maps reviews
- Possible physical location
- 02/10/2020 : Since few days ago, Google return a 404 when we try to access someone's Google Photos public albums, we can only access it if we have a link of one of his albums.
Either this is a bug and this will be fixed, either it's a protection that we need to find how to bypass. - 03/10/2020 : Successfully bypassed. 🕺 (commit 01dc016)
It requires the "Profile photos" album to be public (it is by default)
You can build the Docker image with:
docker build --build-arg UID=$(id -u ${USER}) --build-arg GID=$(id -g ${USER}) -t ghunt .
Any of the scripts can be invoked through:
docker run -v $(pwd)/resources:/usr/src/app/resources -ti ghunt check_and_gen.py
docker run -v $(pwd)/resources:/usr/src/app/resources -ti ghunt hunt.py <email_address>
- Make sure you have Python 3.6.1+ installed. (I developed it with Python 3.8.1)
- These Python modules are required (we'll install them later):
geopy
httpx
selenium-wire
selenium
imagehash
pillow
python-dateutil
chromedriver_autoinstaller
This project uses Selenium and automatically downloads the correct driver for your Chrome version.
In the GHunt folder, run:
python -m pip install -r requirements.txtAdapt the command to your operating system if needed.
For the first run and sometimes after, you'll need to check the validity of your cookies.
To do this, run check_and_gen.py.
If you don't have cookies stored (ex: first launch), you will be asked for the 4 required cookies. If they are valid, it will generate the Authentication token and the Google Docs & Hangouts tokens.
Then, you can run the tool like this:
python hunt.py [email protected]- Log in to accounts.google.com
- After that, open the Dev Tools window and navigate to the Storage tab (Shift + F9 on Firefox) (It's called "Application" on Chrome)
If you don't know how to open it, just right-click anywhere and click "Inspect Element". - Then you'll find every cookie you need, including the 4 ones.
This tool is based on Sector's research on Google IDs and completed by my own as well.
If I have the motivation to write a blog post about it, I'll add the link here!


