Hunt down social media accounts by username across 400+ social networks
Installation • Usage • Contributing
Warning
Packages for ParrotOS and Ubuntu 24.04, maintained by a third party, appear to be broken.
Users of these systems should defer to pipx/pip or Docker.
| Method | Notes |
|---|---|
pipx install sherlock-project | pip 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
To search for only one user:
sherlock user123To search for more than one user:
sherlock user1 user2 user3Accounts found will be stored in an individual text file with the corresponding username (e.g user123.txt).
$ sherlock --help usage: sherlock [-h] [--version] [--verbose] [--folderoutput FOLDEROUTPUT] [--output OUTPUT] [--tor] [--unique-tor] [--csv] [--xlsx] [--site SITE_NAME] [--proxy PROXY_URL] [--json JSON_FILE] [--timeout TIMEOUT] [--print-all] [--print-found] [--no-color] [--browse] [--local] [--nsfw] USERNAMES [USERNAMES ...] Sherlock: Find Usernames Across Social Networks (Version 0.14.3) positional arguments: USERNAMES One or more usernames to check with social networks. Check similar usernames using {?} (replace to '_', '-', '.'). optional arguments: -h, --help show this help message and exit --version Display version information and dependencies. --verbose, -v, -d, --debug Display extra debugging information and metrics. --folderoutput FOLDEROUTPUT, -fo FOLDEROUTPUT If using multiple usernames, the output of the results will be saved to this folder. --output OUTPUT, -o OUTPUT If using single username, the output of the result will be saved to this file. --tor, -t Make requests over Tor; increases runtime; requires Tor to be installed and in system path. --unique-tor, -u Make requests over Tor with new Tor circuit after each request; increases runtime; requires Tor to be installed and in system path. --csv Create Comma-Separated Values (CSV) File. --xlsx Create the standard file for the modern Microsoft Excel spreadsheet (xlsx). --site SITE_NAME Limit analysis to just the listed sites. Add multiple options to specify more than one site. --proxy PROXY_URL, -p PROXY_URL Make requests over a proxy. e.g. socks5://127.0.0.1:1080 --json JSON_FILE, -j JSON_FILE Load data from a JSON file or an online, valid, JSON file. --timeout 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. --no-color Don't color terminal output --browse, -b Browse to all results on default browser. --local, -l Force the use of the local data.json file. --nsfw Include checking of NSFW sites from default list.
You can run Sherlock in the cloud without installation using the Sherlock Actor on Apify free of charge.
$ echo '{"usernames":["user123"]}' | apify call -so netmilk/sherlock [{ "username": "user123", "links": [ "https://www.1337x.to/user/user123/", ... ] }]Read more about the Sherlock Actor, including how to use it programmaticaly via the Apify API, CLI and JS/TS and Python SDKs.
Thank you to everyone who has contributed to Sherlock! ❤️
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Original Creator - Siddharth Dushantha
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