Sherlock

<p align="center"> <br> <a href="https://sherlock-project.github.io/" target="_blank"><img src="images/sherlock-logo.png" alt="sherlock"/></a> <br> <span>Hunt down social media accounts by username across <a href="https://sherlockproject.xyz/sites">400+ social networks</a></span> <br> </p> <p align="center"> <a href="https://sherlockproject.xyz/installation">Installation</a> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;•&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <a href="https://sherlockproject.xyz/usage">Usage</a> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;•&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <a href="https://sherlockproject.xyz/contribute">Contributing</a> </p> <p align="center"> <img width="70%" height="70%" src="images/demo.png" alt="demo"/> </p>

Installation

[!WARNING]
Packages for ParrotOS and Ubuntu 24.04, maintained by a third party, appear to be broken.
Users of these systems should defer to pipx/pip or Docker.

| Method | Notes | | - | - | | pipx install sherlock-project | pip may be used in place of pipx | | docker run -it --rm sherlock/sherlock | | dnf install sherlock-project | |

Community-maintained packages are available for Debian (>= 13), Ubuntu (>= 22.10), Homebrew, Kali, and BlackArch. These packages are not directly supported or maintained by the Sherlock Project.

See all alternative installation methods here

General usage

To search for only one user:

sherlock user123

To search for more than one user:

sherlock user1 user2 user3

Accounts found will be stored in an individual text file with the corresponding username (e.g user123.txt).

$ sherlock --help
usage: sherlock [-h] [--version] [--verbose] [--folderoutput FOLDEROUTPUT]
                [--output OUTPUT] [--tor] [--unique-tor] [--csv] [--xlsx]
                [--site SITE_NAME] [--proxy PROXY_URL] [--json JSON_FILE]
                [--timeout TIMEOUT] [--print-all] [--print-found] [--no-color]
                [--browse] [--local] [--nsfw]
                USERNAMES [USERNAMES ...]

Sherlock: Find Usernames Across Social Networks (Version 0.14.3)

positional arguments:
  USERNAMES             One or more usernames to check with social networks.
                        Check similar usernames using {?} (replace to '_', '-', '.').

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  --version             Display version information and dependencies.
  --verbose, -v, -d, --debug
                        Display extra debugging information and metrics.
  --folderoutput FOLDEROUTPUT, -fo FOLDEROUTPUT
                        If using multiple usernames, the output of the results will be
                        saved to this folder.
  --output OUTPUT, -o OUTPUT
                        If using single username, the output of the result will be saved
                        to this file.
  --tor, -t             Make requests over Tor; increases runtime; requires Tor to be
                        installed and in system path.
  --unique-tor, -u      Make requests over Tor with new Tor circuit after each request;
                        increases runtime; requires Tor to be installed and in system
                        path.
  --csv                 Create Comma-Separated Values (CSV) File.
  --xlsx                Create the standard file for the modern Microsoft Excel
                        spreadsheet (xlsx).
  --site SITE_NAME      Limit analysis to just the listed sites. Add multiple options to
                        specify more than one site.
  --proxy PROXY_URL, -p PROXY_URL
                        Make requests over a proxy. e.g. socks5://127.0.0.1:1080
  --json JSON_FILE, -j JSON_FILE
                        Load data from a JSON file or an online, valid, JSON file.
  --timeout TIMEOUT     Time (in seconds) to wait for response to requests (Default: 60)
  --print-all           Output sites where the username was not found.
  --print-found         Output sites where the username was found.
  --no-color            Don't color terminal output
  --browse, -b          Browse to all results on default browser.
  --local, -l           Force the use of the local data.json file.
  --nsfw                Include checking of NSFW sites from default list.

Apify Actor Usage

<a href="https://apify.com/netmilk/sherlock?fpr=sherlock"><img src="https://apify.com/ext/run-on-apify.png" alt="Run Sherlock Actor on Apify" width="176" height="39" /></a>

You can run Sherlock in the cloud without installation using the Sherlock Actor on Apify free of charge.

$ echo '{"usernames":["user123"]}' | apify call -so netmilk/sherlock
[{
  "username": "user123",
  "links": [
    "https://www.1337x.to/user/user123/",
    ...
  ]
}]

Read more about the Sherlock Actor, including how to use it programmatically via the Apify API, CLI and JS/TS and Python SDKs.

Credits

Thank you to everyone who has contributed to Sherlock! ❤️

<a href="https://github.com/sherlock-project/sherlock/graphs/contributors"> <img src="https://contrib.rocks/image?&columns=25&max=10000&&repo=sherlock-project/sherlock" alt="contributors"/> </a>

Star History

<picture> <source media="(prefers-color-scheme: dark)" srcset="https://api.star-history.com/svg?repos=sherlock-project/sherlock&type=Date&theme=dark" /> <source media="(prefers-color-scheme: light)" srcset="https://api.star-history.com/svg?repos=sherlock-project/sherlock&type=Date" /> <img alt="Sherlock Project Star History Chart" src="https://api.star-history.com/svg?repos=sherlock-project/sherlock&type=Date" /> </picture>

License

MIT © Sherlock Project<br/> Original Creator - Siddharth Dushantha

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