What does HackerNews think of sherlock?
🔎 Hunt down social media accounts by username across social networks
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This project is apparently a fork of another project called Sherlock [1] which is still active.
Does anyone know the story behind the fork?
hah, I thought it sounded like sherlock[1] and lo, it's a fork!
can't find a comparison of them though; any idea how they differ?
https://github.com/sherlock-project/sherlock
My list is based on this project. It has over 200 items, many of which I was unaware existed.
Hello, I do some webscraping at my job using python, but I've found that scraping social media for non-specific data is often the same amount of work as manual searching or using google search tools like "site:". With that said, and similar to anigbrowl's comment, without a specific goal in mind you will be hard pressed to solve your problem. Social media scraping varies heavily by platform in terms of what information is available to scrape (without brute force).
If you want some social media OSINT tools that are already built in python, Black Arch has a list of open-source tools that you can access and use:
https://blackarch.org/social.html
If you are trying to identify someone's social media, Sherlock or Spiderfoot are commonly cited, but again, I don't think that these tools save that much as opposed to just using Google's search logic efficiently.