Sherlock OSINT tool hits 99k GitHub stars for username hunting across social networks
sherlock-project · github · 2026-11-07
sherlock-project/sherlock is a Python CLI OSINT tool that hunts down social media accounts by username across hundreds of social networks, widely used in cybersecurity, forensics, and red-team reconnaissance. The repo now has 99.4k stars (+1,761 today), 284 contributors, and 12k forks, making it one of the most enduring infosec tools on GitHub.
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