The best Sherlock alternatives
3 tools that do a similar job to Sherlock, 3 of them open source. Each entry says what it does and who it suits, so you can pick the one that fits instead of the most famous.
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Maigret
Open source · MIT · ★ 39.6k
Searches for a username across thousands of websites to gather public account info.
Best for: Investigators and analysts doing OSINT research on a username; Security researchers mapping where a handle is used online
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subfinder
Open source · MIT · ★ 14.7k
Command-line tool that finds subdomains of a website using passive online sources.
Best for: Security testers doing reconnaissance on a domain they are authorized to test; Bug bounty hunters mapping a target's subdomains
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httpx
Open source · MIT · ★ 10.6k
A command-line tool that quickly checks many web hosts and reports details about each one.
Best for: Security testers doing reconnaissance on lists of hosts they are authorized to test; Bug bounty hunters who need to filter large lists of subdomains down to live web servers
How we pick: tools in the same category that solve the same problem, projects that name each other as alternatives, and open-source projects that describe themselves as an alternative to Sherlock. We don't take payment for placement.