Tool of the month April
Today's tool of the month is ... Sherlock 🔍.
What is sherlock?
Sherlock is an open-source project tool that is used to investigate or hunt down social media accounts by searching their usernames across social networks.
Sherlock is a very powerful and cool tool, and I am going to show you what cool things it does. Time to put on our detective hats, Watson. We’ve got a mystery to unravel!
INSTALL
- Install Sherlock
sudo apt install sherlock
- Enter yes
- After installing it, double-check it. By typing Sherlock, the letters should appear as blue.
FUN TIME 🎉
Now it's time for the interesting part !
- To know how to use the tool, you can use this command
sherlock -h
It will give you a list of commands on how to use the tool.
- To search for usernames
sherlock <any username>
Below is an example of me searching for my name 😉
- Exploring options
Saving the output to a file.
sherlock noob3int --output noob3int.txt
Shows successful results that are found.
sherlock noob3int --print-found
Use a timeout to avoid being blocked
sherlock noob3int --timeout 5
OTHER COMMANDS 😲
- To check nsfw accounts through the Tor browser
sherlock <username> --nsfw --tor - Multiple users at once
sherlock user1 user2 user3 - To check through the Tor browser
sherlock <username> --tor - To use a custom proxy to stay hidden
sherlock --proxy <your custom proxy link> - If you want to show everything that is happening
sherlock <username> --verbose
You can combine and customize these commands to make them powerful as well!
I hope you enjoyed today's tool of the month! Go ahead and try different ways to customize your search using Sherlock. Let me know what your go-to command is! Stay tuned for more exciting tools of the week! 😆 That's all for today 🌹
Signing off, noob3InT 📝