sherlock-project/sherlock
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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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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 -
…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 -
> 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 -
…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...
comment by casey2 · 2024-12-25 · in Sherlock: Hunt down social media accounts by username across 400 social networks -
I get this error upon first run, both with pipx and with a regular venv: https://github.com/sherlock-project/sherlock/issues/2294
comment by n8henrie · 2024-12-25 · in Sherlock: Hunt down social media accounts by username across 400 social networks -
It doesn't query a database, it queries the individual sites. https://github.com/sherlock-project/sherlock/blob/master/she...
comment by jdiff · 2024-12-25 · in Sherlock: Hunt down social media accounts by username across 400 social networks -
https://github.com/sherlock-project/sherlock/issues/2011
comment by fallingsquirrel · 2024-11-15 · in Show HN: Scooter – Interactive find and replace in the terminal -
https://github.com/sherlock-project/sherlock
comment by binarysneaker · 2024-08-13 · in Mastering Osint: How to Find Information on Anyone -
perhaps 'sherlock'? https://github.com/sherlock-project/sherlock
comment by webdevver · 2024-08-13 · in Mastering Osint: How to Find Information on Anyone -
…̵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,…
comment by nop_slide · 2022-11-23 · in Show HN: I built an app that scans every social media network for your username -
…project called Sherlock [1] which is still active. Does anyone know the story behind the fork? [1]: https://github.com/sherlock-project/sherlock
comment by dolmen · 2022-10-03 · in Maigret: Collect a dossier on a person by username from thousands of sites -
…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
comment by fire · 2022-10-02 · in Maigret: Collect a dossier on a person by username from thousands of sites -
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.
comment by gzer0 · 2022-03-11 · in uBlock Origin becomes top addon on Firefox -
…think that these tools save that much as opposed to just using Google's search logic efficiently. https://github.com/sherlock-project/sherlock
comment by AshArchangel · 2020-05-28 · in Ask HN: How do I build a robust social media profile data scraper?