sherlock-project/sherlock
★ 93,221 stars
Covered in week 2026-W26 · the 2026-06 report
Hunt down social media accounts by username across social networks
What sherlock is
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.
From the repository README · read it on GitHub →
Transcript
BeenVerified charges $26 a month to find someone online. Sherlock does it free. Type a single username and Sherlock scans over 400 social networks and websites in seconds, dumping every matching profile into one clean report. No subscription, no paywall, no per-search fee. It runs straight from your terminal, fully open source, with 65,000 GitHub stars behind it. Still paying $26 a month for BeenVerified after seeing this? Comment below.