# ibnaleem/gosearch

🔍 Search anyone's digital footprint across 300+ websites

Repository: https://github.com/ibnaleem/gosearch
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/gosearch
Language: Go
License: GPL-3.0
License Family: copyleft
Topics: digital-footprint, digital-footprint-lookup, osint, osint-framework, osint-reconnaissance, osint-resources, osint-tool, sherlock, social-media, username-checker, username-osint, username-scanner, username-search, cti, information-gathering, cybersecurity, pentesting, redteam, golang, sherlock-alternatives
Last push: 2026-08-26T00:15:29+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 84/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 99, release rhythm 87, longevity 47
- inputs: {"age_days": 662, "days_push": 8, "days_rel": 88, "gap_med": 13, "n_releases_24m": 2}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 3640, forks 324 (observed 2026-08-28T04:08:12.780761+00:00)

## What it is
GoSearch is a Go-based CLI OSINT tool that searches a username across 300+ websites to find a person's digital footprint, serving as a Sherlock alternative. It also queries breach credential APIs (HudsonRock, ProxyNova, BreachDirectory) to surface leaked credentials associated with a username.

## Use cases
- find all social media accounts for a username
- check if a username exists on 300+ websites
- osint reconnaissance on a target's digital footprint
- search leaked credentials by username
- sherlock alternative for username enumeration
- red team reconnaissance of a person's online presence

## When to choose
- you need a fast, concurrent username scan across many sites
- you want a maintained Sherlock alternative written in Go
- you want username-based breach credential lookups in one tool

## When to avoid
- you need deep scraping of site content rather than username existence checks
- you need a GUI or web interface
- your environment flags OSINT tooling as disallowed

## Facets
- artifact type: cli-tool
- maturity: active
- function: osint, web-scraping, http-client, cli, security
- domain: osint, security, social-media
- platform: windows, cli, go
- tags: username-search, digital-footprint, sherlock-alternative, breach-data, osint-reconnaissance, redteam, command-line, linux, macos

## Member repositories
- ibnaleem/gosearch (main) score 84

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:12.780761+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T18:31:48.117349+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/ibnaleem/gosearch (fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:12.780761+00:00, sha 15f02abb6ff4)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.