# sham00n/buster

An advanced tool for email reconnaissance

Repository: https://github.com/sham00n/buster
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/sham00n-buster
Language: Python
License: GPL-3.0
License Family: copyleft
Topics: osint, cybersecurity, inteligence, penetration-testing, recon, emails, social-accounts, infosec
Last push: 2020-03-26T16:41:38+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 32/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 2648, "days_push": 2351, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1395, forks 203 (observed 2026-08-28T04:04:36.556960+00:00)

## What it is
Buster is a Python command-line OSINT tool for email reconnaissance. It finds social accounts linked to an email, data breaches, pastes, reverse WHOIS domains, and generates/validates possible email addresses from a person's name and details.

## Use cases
- find social accounts linked to an email address
- check which data breaches an email appears in
- generate and verify possible email addresses for a person
- find emails associated with a username
- discover domains registered with an email via reverse whois
- find someone's work email at a company
- bulk-check a list of email addresses

## When to choose
- you need a free, scriptable CLI for email-based OSINT during authorized pentests or investigations
- you want to correlate an email with breaches, pastes, and social media profiles
- you need to guess and validate email patterns from a person's name and birthdate

## When to avoid
- you need a GUI or a maintained web service
- you require up-to-date breach data sources, as the tool's last release was in 2020 and some sources may be broken
- you lack authorization to investigate the target email addresses

## Facets
- artifact type: cli-tool
- maturity: maintenance
- function: osint, search-engine, web-scraping, cli
- domain: osint, security, penetration-testing, email
- platform: python, cli, windows
- tags: email-reconnaissance, breach-lookup, social-accounts, reverse-whois, email-generation, username-enumeration, linux, macos

## Member repositories
- sham00n/buster (main) score 32

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:36.556960+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 2026-08-30T04:39:24.594760+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/sham00n/buster (fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:36.556960+00:00, sha 73cb3e5ac892)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.