While there are completely legitimate reasons to use Bitcoin, it's also used by terrorists, drug dealers, and other shady people that need to be investigated. That's where SpiderFoot comes in, which has a command-line interface to search for Bitcoin wallet addresses on a website and query the balances associated with them.
SpiderFoot is a great tool overall for automating OSINT (open-source intelligence), and there are two different versions: the free open-source project and SpiderFoot HX, a paid service that costs almost $800 a year. For our use, the free version is adequate for investigating Bitcoin wallets and balances, and we won't have to run a web server to do it, which is necessary if using SpiderFoot outside of the CLI.
Let's say an organization is raising funds using Bitcoin. Whether it's a legitimate or illegitimate organization that's asking for donations, you can monitor its performance by first locating any Bitcoin wallet addresses associated with the organization's domain by scraping the website. We can then pass that data into a query to find out the exact balance in each public-facing wallet.
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Requirements
To use SpiderFoot's CLI, you'll need to have Python 3 installed, which comes preinstalled on newer Linux, macOS, and Windows systems. If it's not, or you have an older version of Python, Python 3 is easy enough to download and install.
Step 1: Install SpiderFoot
We're not going to go to SpiderFoot's website to get the tool. Instead, we'll get it ..
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