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Look for a username on Social Media sites easily with a simple Python script.


The Sherlock Python script will allow searching for a username on many Social Media websites. This is simple to install.

Just download the source.

╭──(john㉿DESKTOP-PF01IEE)───╮
╰───────────────────────────╾╯(/mnt/g/Code)-(172.18.200.18)git clone https://github.com/sherlock-project/sherlock.git
Cloning into 'sherlock'...
remote: Enumerating objects: 7797, done.
remote: Counting objects: 100% (2799/2799), done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (209/209), done.
remote: Total 7797 (delta 2638), reused 2613 (delta 2571), pack-reused 4998
Receiving objects: 100% (7797/7797), 16.32 MiB | 5.73 MiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (4956/4956), done.

Then install all requirements in one go.

╭──(john㉿DESKTOP-PF01IEE)───╮
╰───────────────────────────╾╯(/mnt/g/Code/sherlock)-(172.18.200.18)┋ python3 -m pip install -r requirements.txt
Defaulting to user installation because normal site-packages is not writeable
Requirement already satisfied: certifi>=2019.6.16 in /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages (from -r requirements.txt (line 1)) (2023.11.17)
Requirement already satisfied: colorama>=0.4.1 in /home/john/.local/lib/python3.11/site-packages (from -r requirements.txt (line 2)) (0.4.6)
Requirement already satisfied: PySocks>=1.7.0 in /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages (from -r requirements.txt (line 3)) (1.7.1)
Requirement already satisfied: requests>=2.22.0 in /home/john/.local/lib/python3.11/site-packages (from -r requirements.txt (line 4)) (2.31.0)
Collecting requests-futures>=1.0.0 (from -r requirements.txt (line 5))
  Downloading requests_futures-1.0.1-py2.py3-none-any.whl.metadata (12 kB)
Collecting stem>=1.8.0 (from -r requirements.txt (line 6))
  Downloading stem-1.8.2.tar.gz (2.9 MB)
     ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 2.9/2.9 MB 5.4 MB/s eta 0:00:00
  Preparing metadata (setup.py) ... done
Collecting torrequest>=0.1.0 (from -r requirements.txt (line 7))
  Downloading torrequest-0.1.0.tar.gz (1.5 kB)
  Preparing metadata (setup.py) ... done
Collecting pandas>=1.0.0 (from -r requirements.txt (line 8))
  Downloading pandas-2.2.0-cp311-cp311-manylinux_2_17_x86_64.manylinux2014_x86_64.whl.metadata (19 kB)
Collecting openpyxl<=3.0.10 (from -r requirements.txt (line 9))
  Downloading openpyxl-3.0.10-py2.py3-none-any.whl (242 kB)
     ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 242.1/242.1 kB 4.5 MB/s eta 0:00:00
Collecting exrex>=0.11.0 (from -r requirements.txt (line 10))
  Downloading exrex-0.11.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl.metadata (5.7 kB)
Requirement already satisfied: charset-normalizer<4,>=2 in /home/john/.local/lib/python3.11/site-packages (from requests>=2.22.0->-r requirements.txt (line 4)) (3.1.0)
Requirement already satisfied: idna<4,>=2.5 in /home/john/.local/lib/python3.11/site-packages (from requests>=2.22.0->-r requirements.txt (line 4)) (3.4)
Requirement already satisfied: urllib3<3,>=1.21.1 in /home/john/.local/lib/python3.11/site-packages (from requests>=2.22.0->-r requirements.txt (line 4)) (2.0.2)
Requirement already satisfied: numpy<2,>=1.23.2 in /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages (from pandas>=1.0.0->-r requirements.txt (line 8)) (1.24.2)
Requirement already satisfied: python-dateutil>=2.8.2 in /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages (from pandas>=1.0.0->-r requirements.txt (line 8)) (2.8.2)
Requirement already satisfied: pytz>=2020.1 in /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages (from pandas>=1.0.0->-r requirements.txt (line 8)) (2023.3.post1)
Collecting tzdata>=2022.7 (from pandas>=1.0.0->-r requirements.txt (line 8))
  Downloading tzdata-2024.1-py2.py3-none-any.whl.metadata (1.4 kB)
Collecting et-xmlfile (from openpyxl<=3.0.10->-r requirements.txt (line 9))
  Downloading et_xmlfile-1.1.0-py3-none-any.whl (4.7 kB)
Downloading requests_futures-1.0.1-py2.py3-none-any.whl (7.6 kB)
Downloading pandas-2.2.0-cp311-cp311-manylinux_2_17_x86_64.manylinux2014_x86_64.whl (13.0 MB)
   ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 13.0/13.0 MB 5.9 MB/s eta 0:00:00
Downloading exrex-0.11.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl (23 kB)
Downloading tzdata-2024.1-py2.py3-none-any.whl (345 kB)
   ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 345.4/345.4 kB 3.9 MB/s eta 0:00:00
Building wheels for collected packages: stem, torrequest
  Building wheel for stem (setup.py) ... done
  Created wheel for stem: filename=stem-1.8.2-py3-none-any.whl size=436204 sha256=2c3a0989e084c5674deaf585d0519d63621ef4a8101a4f5b204a6ec6387655ae
  Stored in directory: /home/john/.cache/pip/wheels/a8/52/ae/ba7ad30bbb36c7b4bb65e1d08793b3c87fd49dd0395bd4fe34
  Building wheel for torrequest (setup.py) ... done
  Created wheel for torrequest: filename=torrequest-0.1.0-py3-none-any.whl size=1889 sha256=70f514b10e2ad28c476180300f4d42d6c875f32094bfc06aaba1f1e0f26f237e
  Stored in directory: /home/john/.cache/pip/wheels/ce/76/72/2d834337734cd2d1e8897bec95df2706239b33acb4939a715a
Successfully built stem torrequest
Installing collected packages: stem, exrex, tzdata, et-xmlfile, torrequest, requests-futures, pandas, openpyxl
Successfully installed et-xmlfile-1.1.0 exrex-0.11.0 openpyxl-3.0.10 pandas-2.2.0 requests-futures-1.0.1 stem-1.8.2 torrequest-0.1.0 tzdata-2024.1

After this, it is ready to use.

Run it like this to search for a username on the Internet.

╭──(john㉿DESKTOP-PF01IEE)───╮
╰───────────────────────────╾╯(/mnt/g/Code/sherlock)-(172.18.200.18)┋ python3 sherlock JohnSmith123
[*] Checking username JohnSmith123 on:
 
[+] 7Cups: https://www.7cups.com/@JohnSmith123
[+] 8tracks: https://8tracks.com/JohnSmith123
[+] 9GAG: https://www.9gag.com/u/JohnSmith123
[+] About.me: https://about.me/JohnSmith123
[+] Academia.edu: https://independent.academia.edu/JohnSmith123
[+] Amino: https://aminoapps.com/u/JohnSmith123
[+] Apple Discussions: https://discussions.apple.com/profile/JohnSmith123
[+] Archive of Our Own: https://archiveofourown.org/users/JohnSmith123
[+] AskFM: https://ask.fm/JohnSmith123
[+] Audiojungle: https://audiojungle.net/user/JohnSmith123
[+] Bandcamp: https://www.bandcamp.com/JohnSmith123
[+] Behance: https://www.behance.net/JohnSmith123
[+] BiggerPockets: https://www.biggerpockets.com/users/JohnSmith123
[+] BitBucket: https://bitbucket.org/JohnSmith123/
[+] BodyBuilding: https://bodyspace.bodybuilding.com/JohnSmith123
[+] Bookcrossing: https://www.bookcrossing.com/mybookshelf/JohnSmith123/
[+] BuyMeACoffee: https://buymeacoff.ee/JohnSmith123
[+] BuzzFeed: https://buzzfeed.com/JohnSmith123
[+] CGTrader: https://www.cgtrader.com/JohnSmith123
[+] CNET: https://www.cnet.com/profiles/JohnSmith123/
[+] Clapper: https://clapperapp.com/JohnSmith123
[+] Clubhouse: https://www.clubhouse.com/@JohnSmith123
[+] Codecademy: https://www.codecademy.com/profiles/JohnSmith123
[+] Codechef: https://www.codechef.com/users/JohnSmith123
[+] Codeforces: https://codeforces.com/profile/JohnSmith123
[+] ColourLovers: https://www.colourlovers.com/lover/JohnSmith123
[+] DeviantART: https://JohnSmith123.deviantart.com
[+] Discogs: https://www.discogs.com/user/JohnSmith123
[+] Disqus: https://disqus.com/JohnSmith123
[+] Dribbble: https://dribbble.com/JohnSmith123

This would be an amazing tool to gather information about a person for penetration testing. Find information for Social Engineering attacks.


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