Gathering Information about Person using only name or username

 

Hunt down social media accounts by username across Social Networks

   

Most Welcome Guys, So in today's blog I will tell you that how to find all Social Media Accounts of a person using his/her Username.

So in this process, we will use Termux, or Kali/Parrot Linux.

Installing required tools:

So, First Step, We will install a tool from github. Sherlock is a Free Available Tool built in python. It can scan all Popular Social Media Accounts, like Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Github, etc.

Sherlock Installation:

#clone the repo
git clone https://github.com/sherlock-project/sherlock.git

#change the working directory to sherlock
cd sherlock

# install the requirements
python3 -m pip install -r requirements.txt   

Usage

$ python3 sherlock --help
usage: sherlock [-h] [--version] [--verbose] [--folderoutput FOLDEROUTPUT]
                [--output OUTPUT] [--tor] [--unique-tor] [--csv]
                [--site SITE_NAME] [--proxy PROXY_URL] [--json JSON_FILE]
                [--timeout TIMEOUT] [--print-all] [--print-found] [--no-color]
                [--browse] [--local]
                USERNAMES [USERNAMES ...]

Sherlock: Find Usernames Across Social Networks (Version 0.14.2)

positional arguments:
  USERNAMES             One or more usernames to check with social networks.
                        Check similar usernames using {%} (replace to '_', '-', '.').

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  --version             Display version information and dependencies.
  --verbose, -v, -d, --debug
                        Display extra debugging information and metrics.
  --folderoutput FOLDEROUTPUT, -fo FOLDEROUTPUT
                        If using multiple usernames, the output of the results will be
                        saved to this folder.
  --output OUTPUT, -o OUTPUT
                        If using single username, the output of the result will be saved
                        to this file.
  --tor, -t             Make requests over Tor; increases runtime; requires Tor to be
                        installed and in system path.
  --unique-tor, -u      Make requests over Tor with new Tor circuit after each request;
                        increases runtime; requires Tor to be installed and in system
                        path.
  --csv                 Create Comma-Separated Values (CSV) File.
  --xlsx                Create the standard file for the modern Microsoft Excel
                        spreadsheet (xslx).
  --site SITE_NAME      Limit analysis to just the listed sites. Add multiple options to
                        specify more than one site.
  --proxy PROXY_URL, -p PROXY_URL
                        Make requests over a proxy. e.g. socks5://127.0.0.1:1080
  --json JSON_FILE, -j JSON_FILE
                        Load data from a JSON file or an online, valid, JSON file.
  --timeout TIMEOUT     Time (in seconds) to wait for response to requests (Default: 60)
  --print-all           Output sites where the username was not found.
  --print-found         Output sites where the username was found.
  --no-color            Don't color terminal output
  --browse, -b          Browse to all results on default browser.
  --local, -l           Force the use of the local data.json file.

To search for only one user:

python3 sherlock user123

To search for more than one user:

python3 sherlock user1 user2 user3

Accounts found will be stored in an individual text file with the corresponding username (e.g user123.txt).

 

 Applying on a Real Account:

Now After Installing this Awesome Tool, I will scan a user "username" for a demo purpose. 

 

Type Command like this to search for user:

Command: python3 sherlock username

 So as you can see in above Pic, "username" exists in these Social Websites.

So Thanks Guys For Coming to my Blog, Comment your Experience while reading this blog, and Comment whether you are success or not, if there any error, feel free to write...