sherlock-project/sherlock

Hunt down social media accounts by username across social networks

Hunt down social media accounts by username across 400+ social networks Installation • Usage • Contributing ## Installation > [!WARNING] > Packages for ParrotOS and Ubuntu 24.04, maintained by a third party, appear to be __broken__. > Users of these systems should defer to [`uv`](https://docs.astral.sh/uv/)/`pipx`/`pip` or Docker. | Method | Notes | | - | - | | `pipx install sherlock-project` | `pip` or [`uv`](https://docs.astral.sh/uv/) may be used in place of `pipx` | | `docker run -it --rm sherlock/sherlock` | | `dnf install sherlock-project` | | Community-maintained packages are available for Debian (>= 13), Ubuntu (>= 22.10), Homebrew, Kali, and BlackArch. These packages are not directly supported or maintained by the Sherlock Project. See all alternative installation methods [here](https://sherlockproject.xyz/installation). ## General usage To search for only one user: ```bash sherlock user123 ``` To search for more than one user: ```bash sherlock user1 user2 user3 ``` Accounts found will be stored in an individual text file with the corresponding username (e.g ```user123.txt```). ```console $ sherlock --help usage: sherlock [-h] [--version] [--verbose] [--folderoutput FOLDEROUTPUT] [--output OUTPUT] [--csv] [--xlsx] [--site SITE_NAME] [--proxy PROXY_URL] [--dump-response] [--json JSON_FILE] [--timeout TIMEOUT] [--print-all] [--print-found] [--no-color] [--browse] [--local] [--nsfw] [--txt] [--ignore-exclusions] USERNAMES [USERNAMES ...] Sherlock: Find Usernames Across Social Networks (Version 0.16.0) positional arguments: USERNAMES One or more usernames to check with social networks. Check similar usernames using {?} (replace to '_', '-', '.'). options: -h, --help show this help message and exit --version Display