🚀 TheTimeMachine v3.0 - Weaponizing Wayback for Recon, BugBounties, OSINT & More!

You’ve heard of time travel in movies and comics, right? Well, this isn’t fiction anymore 😎. TheTimeMachine lets you dig through the past of any web app by scraping archived URLs from the Wayback Machine — and helps you find sensitive, forgotten, or deprecated endpoints for further exploitation.

Whether you’re into bug bounty, red teaming, or just love good ol’ recon, this tool was built to make my recon workflow faster, cleaner, and more effective. No more juggling multiple scripts — TheTimeMachine does it all in one shot.

🧩 Featured At

Conference	Year	Track / Showcase
Defcon33- Las Vegas, NV	2025	Demo Labs
BSides Mumbai	2025	Tools Arsenal Showcase
OSINT Conference	2025	OSINT Conference
Null Bangalore × OWASP Bangalore	2025	Monthly Meetup
Bsides Delaware	2025	Conference
BSides Agra	2025	Conference
Wild West Hackin' Fest (Denver, Colorado)	2026	Conference
BSides Budapest (Budapest, Hungary)	2026	Conference
Announcing Soon!	20XX	Announcing Soon!

💡 What It Does

This isn't just another Wayback scraper. Here's what TheTimeMachine brings to the table:

🔎 Archived URL Fetching – Pull historical URLs from Wayback Machine.
💾 Backup File Detection – Find .zip, .bak, .sql, .tar.gz, .old, and other juicy files.
⚙️ Historical Backups - Looks for historical backups for the identified backup files.
⚔️ Attack Mode – Scan for vulnerable endpoints using patterns/signatures:
- XSS
- SQLi
- LFI
- Open Redirects
- WordPress Vulns
- JIRA-based misconfig
🧠 GET Parameter Mapping – Map every GET parameter to where it appears. (Great for fuzzing automation.)
🧪 JWT Detection – Detect and decode JWTs embedded in archived URLs.
📁 Directory Listing Detection – Find open indexed directories.
🕵️ Subdomain Enumeration – Pull subdomains seen in archived data.
🔍 Keyword Search – Search custom keywords like config, backup, .log, etc.
🧩 Custom Payload Lists – Use your own fuzz list or signatures for custom scans.

⚙️ Installation

Tested on Python 3 across Ubuntu/Kali/Windows.

git clone https://github.com/anmolksachan/TheTimeMachine

cd TheTimeMachine

pip3 install -r requirements.txt

🚀 Usage

python3 thetimemachine.py <target.com> [OPTIONS]

Note: Don't use http:// or https:// in the domain — just pass domain.com or sub.domain.com.

📋 Options

Option	Description
`--fetch`	Fetch archived URLs from Wayback
`--backups`	Scan for exposed backup/config files
`--attack [type]`	Run attack mode (xss, sqli, lfi, redirect, jira, wp, custom)
`--jwt`	Detect & decode JWT tokens
`--subdomains`	Extract subdomains from historical URLs
`--parameters`	Extract GET parameters & map them to URLs
`--listings`	Detect open directory listings

🔁 Example Workflows

Fetch all Wayback URLs

python3 thetimemachine.py example.com --fetch

Look for exposed backup files

python3 thetimemachine.py example.com --backups

Look for directory listing

python3 thetimemachine.py example.com --listings

Scan for possible XSS points

python3 thetimemachine.py example.com --attack xss

Map parameters from archived data

python3 thetimemachine.py example.com --parameters

Extract JWTs

python3 thetimemachine.py example.com --jwt

And much more

usage: thetimemachine.py [-h] [--fetch] [--jwt] [--backups] [--subdomains] [--listings] [--attack {xss,sqli,lfi,redirect,jira,wp,fuzz}] [--menu]
                         [--parameters]
                         target

📁 Output Structure

All results are neatly saved under the content/ directory:

content/
└── example.com/
    ├── example.com_URLs.txt
    ├── example.com_xss.txt
    ├── example.com_sqli.txt
    ├── example.com_parameters.txt
    ├── example.com_subdomain.txt
    └── ...

✍️ Add Your Own Payloads

You can fully customize the payloads for XSS, SQLi, fuzzing, etc. Just edit the respective .txt files inside the repo and fire away!

🧠 Why I Built This

I'm not a full-time bug bounty hunter, but I needed a tool that’d do fast recon, find juicy endpoints, and give me enough leads to manually dig deeper. Got my HOF on multiple VDPs and bugbounty, including NOKIA, Mediatek, and more.

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