OSINT tool SpiderFoot — Scraping Bitcoin addresses and balances
Using OSINT reconnaissance tool SpiderFoot for cryptocurrency intelligence gathering
The article is aimed to show the feature of the OSINT tool SpiderFoot to scrape bitcoin addresses from a website and query their balances in an automated manner.
Everyone knows that once a bitcoin address is obtained it is freely possible to query the balance on blockchain.com and obtain even more detailed information about the transactions to and from that wallet address.
The next section shows an example of how SpiderFoot can be used to find bitcoin addresses on a website and query their balances.
Required modules for our purpose are the 3 modules
It is possible to visualize the results as follows
Problem
Due to API request rate limitation of blockchain.com, the number of unique bitcoin address might be larger than the number of balances found.
You can verify if blockchain website has limited your access for a temporary period.
