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# 10. Perform Footprinting using AI
## 1. Footprinting a Target using ShellGPT
To use ShellGPT for harvesting emails pertaining to a target organization. To do so, run
```
sgpt --chat footprint --shell “Use theHarvester to gather email accounts associated with 'microsoft.com', limiting results to 200, and leveraging 'baidu' as a data source”
```
To perform footprinting through social networking sites using ShellGPT, to do so run
```
sgpt --chat footprint --shell “Use Sherlock to gather personal information about 'Sundar Pichai' and save the result in recon2.txt”
```
Tp perform DNS lookup using ShellGPT, to do so, run
```
sgpt --chat footprint --shell “Install and use DNSRecon to perform DNS enumeration on the target domain www.certifiedhacker.com”
```
For tracerouting.
```
sgpt --chat footprint --shell “Perform network tracerouting to discover the routers on the path to a target host www.certifiedhacker.com”
```
To automate footprinting tasks.
```
sgpt --chat footprint --shell “Develop a Python script which will accept domain name microsoft.com as input and execute a series of website footprinting commands, including DNS lookups, WHOIS records retrieval, email enumeration, and more to gather information about the target domain”
```
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