# Sherlock | Hunt down social media accounts by username across social networks **URL:** \ **Category:** Tools & Scripts\ **Tags:** tools, hacking\ **Created:** [August 26, 2019, 10:31pm UTC](https://onehack.st/t/sherlock-hunt-down-social-media-accounts-by-username-across-social-networks/54765 "2019-08-26T22:31:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![TheJoker](https://onehack.st/user_avatar/onehack.st/thejoker/32/22660_2.png) [@TheJoker](https://onehack.st/u/TheJoker)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2019, 10:31pm UTC](https://onehack.st/t/sherlock-hunt-down-social-media-accounts-by-username-across-social-networks/54765/1 "2019-08-26T22:31:13Z")
# How Do I Hunt Down Social Media Accounts Using Sherlock? 🤔 [https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sherlock-project/sherlock/master/images/sherlock\_preview.gif](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sherlock-project/sherlock/master/images/sherlock_preview.gif) " **Social media is one of the easiest platform for hackers to find out information about any particular person or target. - Ankit Dobhal**" Today! I wake up very late in the morning,& later at 9:30 I had a breakfast. Then something happened one of my friend sent me a link about a tool **Sherlock** which could hunt down social media accounts with username. Well as I usually do !! I sat down in a cheer in front my computer with a cup of coffee,boot up my operating system. Then I go through [github link](https://github.com/sherlock-project/sherlock) of **Sherlock** & started learning about that tool. # **What is Sherlock?** Sherlock is a python based tool which can reveal many user accounts created by the same person in the multiple social media platforms with their **screen\_name** or **username**. sherlock script is written on python. You can checkout the whole script from its [github](https://github.com/sherlock-project/sherlock) link. [![](https://res.cloudinary.com/practicaldev/image/fetch/s--mD1YVyib--/c_limit%2Cf_auto%2Cfl_progressive%2Cq_auto%2Cw_880/https://thepracticaldev.s3.amazonaws.com/i/i5s59ny60iirfedqyno4.JPG)](https://res.cloudinary.com/practicaldev/image/fetch/s--mD1YVyib--/c_limit%2Cf_auto%2Cfl_progressive%2Cq_auto%2Cw_880/https://thepracticaldev.s3.amazonaws.com/i/i5s59ny60iirfedqyno4.JPG) ## **How I Hunt Down Social media Accounts With Sherlock?** **Step 1 → Installed Sherlock** In a terminal window I copied the link of sherlock from [github](https://github.com/ankitdobhal/sherlock) and run following commands. [![](https://res.cloudinary.com/practicaldev/image/fetch/s--pRbNCDSI--/c_limit%2Cf_auto%2Cfl_progressive%2Cq_auto%2Cw_880/https://thepracticaldev.s3.amazonaws.com/i/3ox2dolbvwaz1ko6cb2i.JPG)](https://res.cloudinary.com/practicaldev/image/fetch/s--pRbNCDSI--/c_limit%2Cf_auto%2Cfl_progressive%2Cq_auto%2Cw_880/https://thepracticaldev.s3.amazonaws.com/i/3ox2dolbvwaz1ko6cb2i.JPG) **Note : Python3 and python3-pip have to be installed.** To get help about Sherlock I tried **python sherlock -h** command from inside the Sherlock folder. [![](https://res.cloudinary.com/practicaldev/image/fetch/s--98z-JD6m--/c_limit%2Cf_auto%2Cfl_progressive%2Cq_auto%2Cw_880/https://thepracticaldev.s3.amazonaws.com/i/947hil9pokhs7zqkzf6k.JPG)](https://res.cloudinary.com/practicaldev/image/fetch/s--98z-JD6m--/c_limit%2Cf_auto%2Cfl_progressive%2Cq_auto%2Cw_880/https://thepracticaldev.s3.amazonaws.com/i/947hil9pokhs7zqkzf6k.JPG) **Step 2 → Identify screen name** Just after reading the help I was ready to start script.But wait how to find out screen name of my target? Then I found screen name of my target by running a Google search and “Twitter.” My target was Sir **[Robert Baptiste](https://twitter.com/fs0c131y) aka elliot\_alderson**. He is french security researcher & I admire his work on security a lot. [![](https://res.cloudinary.com/practicaldev/image/fetch/s--tpuB7o1A--/c_limit%2Cf_auto%2Cfl_progressive%2Cq_auto%2Cw_880/https://thepracticaldev.s3.amazonaws.com/i/mii62u4ur7lqkmjgp3bc.JPG)](https://res.cloudinary.com/practicaldev/image/fetch/s--tpuB7o1A--/c_limit%2Cf_auto%2Cfl_progressive%2Cq_auto%2Cw_880/https://thepracticaldev.s3.amazonaws.com/i/mii62u4ur7lqkmjgp3bc.JPG) **Step 3 → Scan for accounts** Then finally I ran sherlock.py script with following commands in my terminal screen **python target\_name -r --print-found** to find out all social media account of my target. [![](https://res.cloudinary.com/practicaldev/image/fetch/s--6Tnk4VIk--/c_limit%2Cf_auto%2Cfl_progressive%2Cq_auto%2Cw_880/https://thepracticaldev.s3.amazonaws.com/i/ux8c4jwmmzjsza9ljsox.JPG)](https://res.cloudinary.com/practicaldev/image/fetch/s--6Tnk4VIk--/c_limit%2Cf_auto%2Cfl_progressive%2Cq_auto%2Cw_880/https://thepracticaldev.s3.amazonaws.com/i/ux8c4jwmmzjsza9ljsox.JPG) **Note : ‘-r’ argument in the above command will organize the list of found accounts by which websites are most popular,& ‘–print-found’ will show all accounts in terminal screen.** So as you can see above example that how I hunt down account all over internet using sherlock.py script.I also tried to contribute some file in this tool You can go through with this link to find out [sherlock](https://github.com/ankitdobhal/sherlock) tool. → [https://github.com/sherlock-project](https://github.com/sherlock-project) ---
**Author:** ![WEBD](https://onehack.st/user_avatar/onehack.st/webd/32/117499_2.png) [@WEBD](https://onehack.st/u/WEBD)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2019, 12:25am UTC](https://onehack.st/t/sherlock-hunt-down-social-media-accounts-by-username-across-social-networks/54765/2 "2019-08-27T00:25:35Z")
Useful information. Thanks ---
**Author:** ![booney](https://onehack.st/user_avatar/onehack.st/booney/32/22385_2.png) [@booney](https://onehack.st/u/booney)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2019, 10:09am UTC](https://onehack.st/t/sherlock-hunt-down-social-media-accounts-by-username-across-social-networks/54765/3 "2019-08-27T10:09:12Z")
Isnt this just simple google searching? Only like saves you time and effort ?