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Sherlock

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🔎 Hunt down social media accounts by username across social networks using open-source project https://github.com/sherlock-project/sherlock

Pricing

Pay per usage

Rating

4.7

(76)

Developer

Misceres

Actor stats

158

Bookmarked

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Total users

538

Monthly active users

77 days

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Sherlock API through CLI

The Apify CLI is the official tool that allows you to use Sherlock locally, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.

Install Apify CLI

Using installation script (macOS/Linux):

$curl -fsSL https://apify.com/install-cli.sh | bash

Using installation script (Windows):

$irm https://apify.com/install-cli.ps1 | iex

Using Homebrew:

$brew install apify-cli

Using npm:

$npm install -g apify-cli

Other API clients include:

Sherlock API in Python

Sherlock API in JavaScript

Sherlock OpenAPI definition

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𝗙𝗶𝗻𝗱 𝘀𝗼𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗺𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗮 𝗮𝗰𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗻𝘁𝘀 𝗶𝗻𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗻𝘁𝗹𝘆 by username across 𝟰𝟬𝟬+ 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝘀 including Facebook, Instagram, Twitter & TikTok. 𝗙𝗿𝗲𝗲 𝘂𝘀𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗮𝗺𝗲 𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝘁𝗼𝗼𝗹 to discover profiles. 𝗙𝗮𝘀𝘁, 𝗮𝗰𝗰𝘂𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝘀𝗼𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗺𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗮 𝗹𝗼𝗼𝗸𝘂𝗽.

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