PyRank
sherlock-project

sherlock-project

Hunt down social media accounts by username across social networks
PyPI GitHub
No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

sherlock-project has 169K monthly downloads and 86K GitHub stars. Version 0.16.0 supports Python <4.0,>=3.9, first published in 2024.

It is stably maintained under a permissive license, last released in Sep 2025.

It is built on top of certifi, colorama and openpyxl. It is used by 7 tracked packages, including sylva, internet-names-mcp and komaruscript.

GitHub topics include osint, reconnaissance and linux.

Downloads
Day
2.9K
Week
26.4K
Month
169.1K
Stars
86.1K
Forks
10.1K
Issues
91
Version
0.16.0

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
50
Popularity
99
Adoption
52
Community
80
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
58 days ago
Monthly downloads
169,141
Active
Activity within 30 days
• Stable
Activity within 31-180 days
Minimal
Activity within 181-365 days, or no activity data
At Risk
No activity for > 365 days, but > 10,000 monthly downloads
Archived
Repository flagged as archived on GitHub
How the popularity category was determined
Monthly downloads
169,141
Stars
86,073
Stars per 1k downloads
508.88
Industry Standard
> 10,000,000 monthly downloads
Hidden Gem
< 0.5 stars per 1k downloads and > 100,000 monthly downloads
• Community Favorite
> 5 stars per 1k downloads
Rising Star
Balanced ratio of stars to downloads
Unknown
Fewer than 1,000 monthly downloads, or no star data
How download momentum is calculated
Week daily avg
3,766
Month daily avg
5,638
Momentum
-33.2%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python version support tiers
requires_python
<4.0,>=3.9
Cutting Edge
Minimum supported version is 3.12 or newer
• Modern
Minimum supported version is 3.9, 3.10, or 3.11
Legacy
Supports 3.8 or older (or Python 2)
Unknown
No requires_python specified or unparseable
License categories
License
MIT
• Permissive
MIT, Apache, BSD, ISC, Unlicense, CC0, etc.
Copyleft
GPL, LGPL, AGPL, MPL, EPL, etc.
Proprietary
Commercial, all rights reserved, custom EULAs
Unknown
No license specified, or none of the above match
How the release cadence was determined
Last release
294 days ago
Total releases
4
Releases/year
1.9
Rapid
Last release within 365 days and > 12 releases/year
• Regular
Last release within 365 days
Slow
Last release 366-730 days ago
Stalled
Last release > 730 days ago, or no releases
Unknown
No usable release date available
How contributor risk was determined
Contributors
277
Monthly downloads
169,141
High Load
≤ 2 contributors and ≥ 50,000 monthly downloads
Moderate Load
< 10 contributors and ≥ 500,000 monthly downloads
Low Load
< 25 contributors and ≥ 5,000,000 monthly downloads, or sole maintainer with ≥ 10,000 monthly downloads
• Balanced
Enough contributors for the package's popularity
Unknown
No contributor data available
Engagement
86
 
Issue Burden
1.1
per 1k stars
Discussions
1.5
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
2.7%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
235d
 
PR Velocity
Active
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.

Downloads by OS

Linux 1.7K
Windows 558
macOS 152

Python Versions

3.13
31.2% 762
3.14
27.6% 675
3.12
27.3% 667
3.11
12.0% 293
3.10
2.0% 48

Top Countries

1. US US
647
2. IN IN
188
3. FR FR
146
4. EE EE
108
5. BR BR
87
6. DE DE
77
7. IT IT
75
8. CH CH
74
9. ID ID
74
10. RU RU
74

Dependencies

8
1 optional dependencies

Used By

7
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.

Package Information

License
MIT
First Release
May 13, 2024
Last Release
9 months ago
Last Commit
1 month ago
Latest Version
0.16.0
Total Releases
4
Contributors
277
Open PRs
216
Archived
No
Author
Siddharth Dushantha
Python Versions
3 3.9 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13
Wheels
py3
Keywords
osint reconnaissance information gathering
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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