sherlock-project/sherlock

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

Sherlock is a Python CLI tool that hunts down social media accounts by username across 400+ social networks. It is widely used for OSINT reconnaissance, pentesting, and investigations.

Use cases

• find social media accounts by username
• osint username search across social networks
• check if a username is taken on multiple sites
• reconnaissance for penetration testing
• investigate a person's online presence
• enumerate accounts for security assessments

When to choose

• you need to check one username against hundreds of social networks quickly from the command line
• you are doing OSINT, red-team recon, or forensics and want a mature, actively maintained tool
• you want a tool installable via pip, brew, apt, dnf, pacman, or Docker

When to avoid

• you need deep scraping of account contents rather than simple existence checks
• you require a GUI rather than a CLI
• your target sites are not among the supported 400+ networks or heavily block automated checks

Facets

cli-tool · maturity active

osint search-engine cli web-scraping osint security windows python cli username-enumeration social-media reconnaissance pentesting forensics redteam information-gathering command-line linux macos docker

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