Project release published developing forensic , which looks up user accounts in public data. The program analyzes various sites, forums and social networks for the presence of the username you are looking for, i.e. allows you to determine on which sites there is a user with the specified nickname. Release bringing the base of checked resources up to , among which there are many Russian speakers. Assemblies for Linux and Windows. The code is written in Python and under the MIT license.
The project is a fork from the project's codebase , with some improvements and changes:
- The Snoop base is three times the size of the Sherlock base (Kali Linux) and twice the base of the Sherlock Github base.
- Snoop has fewer false positive errors that all similar tools have (Websites Ebay comparison example), changes in the algorithm of work.
- New options and removal of obsolete options.
- Support sorting and HTML format.
- Improved informative output.
The tool is adapted, among other things, for searching in the Russian-speaking segment, which is its huge plus compared to similar OSINT tools. Initially, a huge update of the Sherlock project database for the CIS part was planned, but at some point Sherlock changed its course and stopped accepting updates (after ~ 1/3 of the update of the entire database), explaining this state of affairs by the βRestructuringβ of the project and approaching the limit on numbers resources in your site database. The failure was the reason for the creation of the fork. The current database supported by Snoop is larger than Spiderfoot, Sherlock, and Namechk combined.
Source: opennet.ru