Sherlock

Open source username search across hundreds of sites.

Made by Sherlock ProjectInvestigations and OSINT

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About Sherlock

Sherlock is described as a tool that hunts down social media accounts by username across social networks. The page credits Siddharth Dushantha as the creator. The README says it covers accounts across 400+ social networks.

The repository is tagged with topics including forensics, information-gathering, osint, pentesting, and reconnaissance. Community-maintained packages are not directly supported or maintained by the Sherlock Project.

Drafted from github.com · not yet confirmed by Sherlock Project

How it works

Sherlock takes a username and checks whether an account with that name exists on several hundred sites, returning the URLs. It's a command line Python tool and the standard first step for linking a handle across platforms in an investigation.

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