https://github.com/swanandx/lemmeknow

The fastest way to identify anything!
https://github.com/swanandx/lemmeknow

cli cryptography cybersecurity pywhat regex rust rust-crate rust-lang

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The fastest way to identify anything!

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/swanandx/lemmeknow
• Owner: swanandx
• License: mit
• Created: 2021-08-29T12:08:19.000Z (about 3 years ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2024-06-05T08:29:25.000Z (5 months ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-09-28T20:41:09.809Z (about 1 month ago)
• Topics: cli, cryptography, cybersecurity, pywhat, regex, rust, rust-crate, rust-lang
• Language: Rust
• Homepage: https://docs.rs/lemmeknow/
• Size: 627 KB
• Stars: 939
• Watchers: 8
• Forks: 38
• Open Issues: 17
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • Funding: .github/FUNDING.yml
  • License: LICENSE

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README

        


    lemmeknow 





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  Just ask "lemmeknow"!





  The fastest way to identify anything








  

  

    

  

  

  

    

  

  

  

    

  

  

  

    

  

  

  

    

  





  Built with ❤︎ by

  swanandx and

  

    contributors

  








`lemmeknow` can be used for identifying mysterious text or to analyze hard-coded strings from captured network packets, malwares, or just about anything.



  Try it online 

  here

  








  Watch the video on 

  YouTube

  






## 🧰 Usage

```shell

lemmeknow [OPTIONS] 

```



JSON Output

If you want output in JSON format, then pass `-j / --json` flag.

*e.g.* 

```shell

lemmeknow UC11L3JDgDQMyH8iolKkVZ4w --json

``` 



> Run `lemmeknow --help` for all options!




## 🔭 Installation

---

### Download executable 📈

 You can directly download executable and run it. No need for any installation.

 > Check releases [here](https://github.com/swanandx/lemmeknow/releases/).

---

### Using `cargo` 🦀

```shell

cargo install lemmeknow

```

---

### Using [Nix](https://nixos.org/nix) ❄️

```shell

nix-env -iA nixpkgs.lemmeknow

```

---

### Build it from source 🎯

Clone repository

```shell

git clone https://github.com/swanandx/lemmeknow && cd lemmeknow

```

then build and run

```shell

cargo run --  [OPTIONS]

```

OR

```shell

cargo build --release

cd target/release/

./lemmeknow  [OPTIONS]

```

---




## 🚀 API  

Want to use this as a crate in your project? or make a web api for it? No worries! Just add a entry in your `Cargo.toml`

```toml

[dependencies]

lemmeknow = { version = "0.7", default-features = false }

```

OR 

```toml

[dependencies]

lemmeknow = { git = "https://github.com/swanandx/lemmeknow", default-features = false }

```

> Refer to [documentation](https://docs.rs/lemmeknow) for more info.

lemmeknow supports webassembly, that is, it can be compiled for `wasm32-unknown-unknown` target!

e.g. [lemmeknow-frontend](https://github.com/swanandx/lemmeknow-frontend)




## ⚔️ Benchmarks

lemmeknow is around **33x faster** than pywhat for a file of 8.7MB, and it is **3x faster** for a single string!

| A file of 8.7MB | A single string |

| ---  |  ---   |

| *Summary*: `lemmeknow.exe floss.exe` ran **33.13 ± 9.74** times faster than `pywhat floss.exe` | *Summary*: `lemmeknow.exe 3FZ..Zc5` ran **3.29 ± 0.77** times faster than `pywhat 3FZ..Zc5` |

| ![File benchmark](images/bench_file.png)     | ![String benchmark](images/bench_string.png)       |

> Thanks to [SkeletalDemise](https://github.com/SkeletalDemise) for the benchmarks and the whisker plots ✨




## 🚧 Contributing 

You can contribute by adding new regex, improving current regex, improving code performance or fixing minor bugs! Just open a issue or submit a PR.




## 💖 Acknowledgement

 This project is inspired by [PyWhat](https://github.com/bee-san/pyWhat)!

 Thanks to developer of it for the awesome idea <3 .