What Is Sherlock in Kali Linux and How to Use It

Sherlock is a free and open-source tool available on GitHub. This tool is free you can download it from Github and can use it for free of cost. Sherlock is used to finding usernames on social media on 300 sites. ... To do so we need to go on different websites along and have to search for individually again and again.

Introduction

Now, let’s get to the very basic of Sherlock. Sherlock can be divided into two categories of web content crawlers. One is known as a “web crawler” and the other one is known as a “web data retrieval tool”. Sherlock’s most interesting feature is its ability to scan the public web for usernames on social media (as we talked above). The media, if we are to use this term, is usually known as blogs and sites like Twitter, Facebook, and Google+ etc. The search engine crawls the entire public web in order to find usernames. The search results are ordered according to relevance. Search The search results show us that a picture is available on the public web which displays a person's name, picture, etc. So let’s go ahead and perform a search on Facebook or Google+, for instance.

What Sherlock is and how to use it

Installation In Ubuntu and Kali Linux

#1 Download Sherlock

#2 Go to Github

#3 Click on Download ZIP file

#4 Extract the ZIP file and open the extracted folder #5 Navigate to the directory you have extracted the Sherlock ZIP file to

#6 Click on Enter to install the ZIP file on your machine. To do this open a terminal and run the following commands:

#7/8/9

#1: Install Sherlock

#2: Copy Sherlock.sh file into your Ubuntu folder.

#3: Replace Sherlock_cmd file from the Sherlock ZIP file with the Sherlock tool.

#4: Save the file.

#5: Click on the Download ZIP option, then save the file and now you are ready to use Sherlock. How to find usernames on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook

#1: Navigate to the our favorite search engine of search the Internet for the username you want to find on another social media.

Installation in Termux

$apt update && apt upgrade

$ git clone https://github.com/sherlock-project/sherlock

$ cd sherlock

$ pip3 install -r requirements.txt

$ python3 sherlock username

What is Sherlock good for?

Probably one of the best feature of this tool is the ability to find usernames of people who are active on social media. Once you have found the usernames, you can look up their Facebook page to have a closer look at them. For example, if you want to check whether these people are following you on Facebook, Sherlock is the way to do it. This way you can know if they are really following you or just following some fake profile that is meant to imitate yours. Can I find celebrities on Sherlock? Not really! But once you download Sherlock, you will get the possibility to search for public figures. These can be found either on Facebook or Twitter, and they will probably have their public pages on both of these sites.

How to Search for a Username on Social Media

Sherlock is more useful than the other popular tools like sparker, JohnnyLoves you and this tool is preferred by those users who have to do a lot of monitoring and searching, and they prefer Sherlock. This tool is more portable and also it is quite easy to use and operate it. In this article, we will show you how to use Sherlock, and that too on Kali Linux. Kali Linux is the most popular security/bootable Linux. The following steps shall be used for the same: Install Kali Linux Connect to the Kali Linux Web Server Login with SSH using the command: ssh -t $HOME/accountname $HOME/ You should see the following screen: Clicking 'Start Searching' will start the official Sherlock Twitter API Search Tool.

Conclusion

As we have discussed above this is what we are going to do to remove Watson from Kali Linux and then we have used Sherlock tool to find Watson in Kali Linux.