https://github.com/jonaylor89/sherlock-rs

Hunt down social media accounts by username across social networks
https://github.com/jonaylor89/sherlock-rs

cli cti cybersecurity forensics hacktoberfest information-gathering infosec linux osint pentesting reconnaissance redteam rust rust-lang sherlock tools

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Hunt down social media accounts by username across social networks

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/jonaylor89/sherlock-rs
• Owner: jonaylor89
• License: mit
• Created: 2024-08-15T13:57:59.000Z (5 months ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2024-09-11T16:02:00.000Z (4 months ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-01-08T15:17:30.478Z (14 days ago)
• Topics: cli, cti, cybersecurity, forensics, hacktoberfest, information-gathering, infosec, linux, osint, pentesting, reconnaissance, redteam, rust, rust-lang, sherlock, tools
• Language: Rust
• Homepage: https://sherlockproject.xyz
• Size: 830 KB
• Stars: 36
• Watchers: 2
• Forks: 2
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • Changelog: CHANGELOG.md
  • Funding: .github/FUNDING.yml
  • License: LICENSE

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## Usage

```shell

sherlock user123

```

To search for more than one user:

```shell

sherlock user1 user2 user3

```

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

```shell

$ sherlock --help

Hunt down social media accounts by username

Usage: sherlock-rs [OPTIONS] ...

Arguments:

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

Options:

  -v, --verbose                        Display extra debugging information and metrics

  -o, --output            The output file to save the results to

  -f, --output-folder   If using single username, the output of the result will be saved to this file

  -c, --csv                            Create Comma-Separated Values (CSV) File

      --xlsx                           Create the standard file for the modern Microsoft Excel spreadsheet (xlsx)

  -s, --site-list           Limit analysis to just the listed sites. Add multiple options to specify more than one site

  -p, --proxy 

  -d, --dump-response                  Dump the HTTP request to stdout for targeted debugging

  -j, --json                Load data from a JSON file or an online, valid, JSON file

  -t, --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

  -n, --no-color                       Don't color terminal output

  -b, --browse                         Browse to all results on default browser

  -l, --local                          Force the use of the local data.json file

      --nsfw                           Include checking of NSFW sites from default list

  -h, --help                           Print help

  -V, --version                        Print version

```

## Installation

```shell

cargo install sherlock

```

## Motivation

I strongly dislike deploying python applications and wanted a single binary. Go get's on my nerves, Swift doesn't have great tooling server-side and on linux, C++ isn't even a question, so Rust it is.







## License

MIT © Johannes Naylor


Original Creator of Sherlock - [Siddharth Dushantha](https://github.com/sdushantha)

## Thanks

- [Siddharth Dushantha](https://github.com/sdushantha) for creating the original Sherlock

- [Eira Fransham](https://github.com/eira-fransham) for giving me the crate name