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Hunt down social media accounts by username across social networks

17 mentions on Hacker News by 17 people: 3 stories, 14 comments · first 2019-07-17 · latest 2025-10-30

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  1. Wow, it's actually real. https://old.reddit.com/r/github/comments/1at9br4/i_am_new_to... https://github.com/sherlock-project/sherlock/issues/2011
    comment by matheusmoreira · 2025-10-30 · in Free software scares normal people
  2. …logic reason. They're not really a good barometer for the quality of any project, on the whole. [0] https://github.com/sherlock-project/sherlock/issues/2011
    comment by giantrobot · 2025-07-31 · in Ollama's new app
  3. > Users don't care about your tech stack Just give them the fucking .exe https://github.com/sherlock-project/sherlock/issues/2019
    comment by atum47 · 2025-02-21 · in Users don't care about your tech stack
  4. …the users' intelligence and generate needless drama[1] the only data needed are the urls from https://github.com/sherlock-project/sherlock/blob/master/she... [1] https://www.reddit.com/r/github/comments/1at9br4/i_am_new_to...
  5. I get this error upon first run, both with pipx and with a regular venv: https://github.com/sherlock-project/sherlock/issues/2294
  6. It doesn't query a database, it queries the individual sites. https://github.com/sherlock-project/sherlock/blob/master/she...
  7. https://github.com/sherlock-project/sherlock/issues/2011
  8. https://github.com/sherlock-project/sherlock
    comment by binarysneaker · 2024-08-13 · in Mastering Osint: How to Find Information on Anyone
  9. perhaps 'sherlock'? https://github.com/sherlock-project/sherlock
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    Sherlock: Hunt down social media accounts by username across social networks
    story by thunderbong · 2022-11-24 · 0 comments
  11. …̵y̵o̵u̵ ̵s̵t̵i̵l̵l̵ ̵h̵a̵v̵e̵n̵'̵t̵ ̵a̵d̵d̵e̵d̵ ̵M̵I̵T̵ ̵l̵i̵c̵e̵n̵s̵e̵ ̵t̵o̵ ̵y̵o̵u̵r̵ ̵r̵e̵p̵o̵.̵ https://github.com/sherlock-project/sherlock https://github.com/bnkc/handlefinder With that said, I like the look of the UI you put on top,…
  12. …project called Sherlock [1] which is still active. Does anyone know the story behind the fork? [1]: https://github.com/sherlock-project/sherlock
  13. …and lo, it's a fork! can't find a comparison of them though; any idea how they differ? 1: https://github.com/sherlock-project/sherlock
  14. https://github.com/sherlock-project/sherlock My list is based on this project. It has over 200 items, many of which I was unaware existed.
  15. …think that these tools save that much as opposed to just using Google's search logic efficiently. https://github.com/sherlock-project/sherlock
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    Sherlock: Find usernames across social networks
    story by Sn0wlizz4rd · 2019-11-30 · 83 comments
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    Sherlock-project/sherlock: Find usernames across social networks
    story by rbanffy · 2019-07-17 · 0 comments