Purpose of Maigret – collect a dossier on a person by username only, checking for accounts on a huge number of sites.
This is a sherlock fork with cool features under heavy development. Don’t forget to regularly update source code from repo.
Currently supported more than 2000 sites (full list), by default search is launched against 500 popular sites in descending order of popularity.
Main Features
Installation
NOTE: Python 3.6 or higher and pip is required.
Package Installing
#install from pypi
pip3 install maigret
#or clone and install manually
git clone https://github.com/soxoj/maigret && cd maigret
pip3 install .
Cloning A Repository
git clone https://github.com/soxoj/maigret && cd maigret
You can use your a free virtual machine, the repo will be automatically cloned:
pip3 install -r requirements.txt
Using Examples
#for a cloned repo
./maigret.py user
#for a package
maigret user
#make HTML and PDF reports
maigret user –html –pdf
#search on sites marked with tags photo & dating
maigret user –tags photo,dating
#search for three usernames on all available sites
maigret user1 user2 user3 -a
Run maigret --help to get arguments description. Also options are documented in the Maigret Wiki.
#manual build
docker build -t maigret . && docker run maigret user
#official image
docker run soxoj/maigret:latest user
Demo With Page Parsing & Recursive Username Search
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