DorkLab

Web app tool for helping compose advance search operators (aka Google dorking AKA boolean searches) for a variety of search engines

Team Members

• Ryan Willett
• Ally Petitt

Tool Description

Web app tool for helping compose advance search operators (aka Google dorking AKA boolean searches) for a variety of search engines

Use Cases

This application can be used for:

• Introduction to use of advance search operators
• Base for cheat cheats and references around such operators
• Simplicity of construction of operators with numerous terms

Installation

Make sure you have Python version 3.8 or greater installed

Download the tool's repository using the command:

 git clone https://github.com/rtwillett/DorkLab.git

Move to the tool's directory and install the tool

 cd Dorklab
 pip install -r requirements.txt
 python -m spacy download en_core_web_lg

Run the application

# method 1
python app.py

# method 2
gunicorn app:app

Usage

The tool can be used by navigating to http://127.0.0.1:5000/ in the browser

Future Steps

• Part of speech (POS) tagging to detect nouns in the quicksearch queries to build that into the additional filter words
• Better detection of lookback and lookforward when one date is given in quicksearch
• More search engines:
  • Brave
  • DuckDuckGo