Haylxon 🔥🦀

SHOOT BEFORE THE BLINK || Haylxon,  A tool embodying the K1SS philosophy that allows you to take screenshots of webpages/URLs at lightning-fast speeds using chromes Headless feature, means, you'd be needing a chromium based browser for it to work.

Built from the ground up for ease of use, performance, beautiful ui and portability in mind. 💖

Table of contents 📔

• Features
• Installation
• Hxn in Action
• Benchmarking
• Contribution
• Support
• Also see
• License
• FAQ

Features 🍙

• Fast: Hxn is designed to be fast, all credits goes to the rustlang. 🦀
• Portable: You can use haylxon on both *nix & windows.
• Ease: This tool is designed to be very user friendly as there are very few options but does all the required works that one expects.👨‍🎨
• Simple: As always Keeping It Simple and Stupid

Installation 📩

🪄 Binary

 

• Manual: You can directly download the binary from releases of your arch and run it.
• One liner: Run this one liner script

wget -qO- "$(curl -qfsSL "https://api.github.com/repos/pwnwriter/haylxon/releases/latest" | jq -r '.assets[].browser_download_url' | grep -Ei "$(uname -m).*$(uname -s).*musl" | grep -v "\.sha")" | tar -xzf - --strip-components=1 && ./hxn -h

🌼 Source

 

git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/pwnwriter/haylxon --branch=main
cd haylxon
cargo build --release 

Then go to release dir and ./hxn or move the binary to your any $PATH for instant access from anywhere.

🎠 Cargo

• Using crates.io

  cargo install hxn

• Using binstall

  cargo binstall hxn

  Note ⚠️ This requires a working setup of rust/cargo & binstall.

🚩 METIS Linux

 

sudo/doas pacman -Syyy hxn

💢 Arch user repository

 

paru/yay -S haylxon-git

❄️ On Nix

 

# Build from source and run
nix run github:pwnwriter/haylxon
# without flakes:
nix-env -iA nixpkgs.haylxon
# with flakes:
nix profile install nixpkgs#haylxon

Hxn in action 🚀

I'm using brave browser for all the demonstration. You can use any chromium based browsers.  

• Single url

   

  hxn -b $(which brave) -u https://example.com

• Multiple urls from file

   

  hxn -b $(which brave) -f urls.txt

• Read urls from stdin

   

  cat urls.txt | hxn -b $(which brave) --stdin

• Custom dimensions

   

  cat urls.txt | hxn -b $(which brave) -x 144 -y 400 --stdin

• With ports

   

  hxn -b $(which brave) -f urls.txt --ports 8080,8081

• Arbitrary javascript

   

  hxn -b $(which brave) -u <url> --javascript "javascript code here"

• Fullpage screenshots

   

  hxn -b $(which brave) -u https://example.com --fullpage

• Screenshot format

   

  hxn -b $(which brave) -u https://example.com --screenshot-type jpeg

• Proxy

   

  hxn -b $(which brave) -u https://example.com --proxy socks5://127.0.0.1:9050

• Custom user agent

   

  hxn -b $(which brave) -f urls.txt --user-agent "random"

• JSON output

   

  hxn -b $(which brave) -f urls.txt --json

• Silent mode

   

  hxn -b $(which brave) -f urls.txt --silent

• Timeout and delay

   

  hxn -b $(which brave) -f urls.txt --timeout 200 --delay 5

• Parallel tabs

   

  hxn -b $(which brave) -f urls.txt --tabs 8

• Accept invalid certs

   

  hxn -b $(which brave) -f urls.txt --accept-invalid-certs

• hxn in termux

    Install dependencies -  

  pkg install tur-repo -y ; pkg install chromium -y
  ln -s "$PREFIX/bin/chromium-browser" "$PREFIX/bin/chromium"

Benchmarking ⚡

The below is a comparison between similar project gowitness, tested on my pentium processor.

Contribution 🤝

Contributions are welcome! You can suggest features, report bugs, fix issues via issues or pull requests. Help with code documentation and spreading the word about HAYLXON(hxn) is appreciated! 😎

Support 💌

I am a student currently attending university. I like working for Open Source in my free time. If you find my tool or work beneficial, please consider supporting me via KO-FI or ESEWA* (Nepal only), Or by leaving a star ⭐ ; I'll appreciate your action :)

Also see 👀

• Kanha :- A web-app pentesting suite written in rust 🦀
• gowitness :- A golang, web screenshot utility using Chrome Headless

FAQ 🥶

• How do you use hxn?
  • I use hxn to automate tasks. For example, I needed to test a website on GitHub Actions before deploying. Using hxn, I took screenshots and uploaded it to 0x0.st to verify it met my requirements.
  • When i have a list of sub(domains) to test.

License 🔐

Licensed under the MIT LICENSE

Copyright © 2023 - present pwnwriter me ☘️