megadose/holehe
holehe allows you to check if the mail is used on different sites like twitter, instagram and will retrieve information on sites with the forgotten password function. observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
32/100
- Activity 0
- Release rhythm 35
- Longevity 100
Flags: no_releases
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: n/a
- age_days: 2260
- days_rel: n/a
- days_push: 722
- n_releases_24m: 0
Adoption not part of the score
14278 stars · 1832 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded
Holehe is an OSINT tool that checks whether an email address is registered on 120+ sites (Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat, etc.) by abusing the forgot-password function, without alerting the target. It runs as a CLI or as an embeddable async Python library and can return partially obfuscated recovery emails and phone numbers.
Use cases
- check if an email is registered on twitter or instagram
- find accounts linked to an email address
- osint email enumeration during an investigation
- retrieve partial recovery phone numbers from an email
- integrate email-to-account lookup into a python tool
- run email reconnaissance from the command line
When to choose
- you need to map an email address to registered accounts across many services
- you want a scriptable Python API or CLI for email OSINT
- you need results without triggering notification emails to the target
When to avoid
- you need authorized security testing of your own systems rather than third-party account discovery
- you require guaranteed accuracy - rate limits and site changes can cause false results
- your use case may violate the terms of service or privacy laws of the targeted sites
Facets
cli-tool · maturity active
osint web-scraping http-client cli osint security privacy developer-tools python cli windows email-enumeration account-discovery password-reset-abuse osint-tools async-python trio maltego-transform linux macos docker
2 sources
- readme: https://github.com/megadose/holehe · fetched 2026-08-28 · 56b8d70ba01b
- registry_pypi: https://pypi.org/pypi/holehe/json · fetched 2026-08-29 · 1e209ef57311
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| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
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| megadose/holehe | main | 32 |
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