urlextractor command not found

Introduction

When you run more command in linux terminal / console, you get the following error message

urlextractor: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: urlextractor: command not found

Solutions to urlextractor: command not found

How To Fix urlextractor: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu urlextractor is provided by urlextractor package.

urlextractor is:

urlextractor gathers information from the specified URL and prints it to STDOUT gathering the following information:

• IP and hosting info like city and country (using FreegeoIP)
• DNS servers (using dig)
• ASN, Network range, ISP name (using RISwhois)
• Load balancer test
• Whois for abuse mail (using Spamcop)
• PAC (Proxy Auto Configuration) file
• Compares hashes to diff code
• robots.txt (recursively looking for hidden stuff)
• Source code (looking for passwords and users)
• External links (frames from other websites)
• Directory FUZZ (like Dirbuster and Wfuzz - using Dirbuster) directory list)
• URLvoid API - checks Google page rank, Alexa rank and possible blacklists
• Provides useful links at other websites to correlate with IP/ASN
• Option to open ALL results in browser at the end

To fix this problem, we can install more using the command below.

sudo apt-get -y install urlextractor

This command might take some time to finish depending on your machine internet connection.

You can also use apt command to install urlextractor.

sudo apt -y install urlextractor

Or if you have aptitude installed you can use the following command.

sudo aptitude install urlextractor

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix urlextractor command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.