megadose/holehe
holehe allows you to check if the mail is used on different sites like twitter, instagram and will retrieve information on sites with the forgotten password function.
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Where it stands
Rank, growth pace and release cadence relative to everything GStars tracks.
The project lists 25 contributors on GitHub.
Peaked at #9 in the weekly ranking the week of Aug 9, its best in the past year.
Use Cases & Benefits
- Checks if an email is registered on over 120 websites including social media and retrieves account info via password recovery features.
- Provides stealthy OSINT email account enumeration without alerting the target email owner, enhancing discreet investigations.
- Use for verifying email presence on social networks like Twitter and Instagram during digital footprint analysis.
- Use for gathering account recovery information to assist in cybersecurity audits or penetration testing.
- Use for integrating into Python applications or CLI workflows to automate open-source intelligence gathering on email addresses.
Should you depend on it?
License terms, project hygiene and risks, from GitHub metadata and GStars' snapshots.
License
GPL 3.0
Copyleft: distributing software that includes it generally requires releasing your source under the same license.
Community files
- README: present
Watch-outs
- GPL-style copyleft: including it in distributed software generally requires releasing your source under the same license.
- Warning: No commits in over a year (last push Sep 2024).
- No GitHub releases; pin a commit or tag instead of a release.
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From the README
👋 Hi there! For any professional inquiries or collaborations, please reach out to me at: [email protected]
📧 Preferably, use your professional email for correspondence. Let's keep it short and sweet, and all in English!
Efficiently finding registered accounts from emails.
Holehe checks if an email is attached to an account on sites like twitter, instagram, imgur and more than 120 others.
Daily snapshots
Stars gained per day, and how forks and open issues moved, from GStars' daily snapshots
+3,506 stars over 85 days across 29 snapshot days; best day +438 on Aug 14.
Forks
2.0K+470
Open issues
117+35
Compared with peers in Backend
Fastest-growing repositories GStars tracks in this cohort for the week of Nov 1, by 7-day star growth
| Repository | Stars | +7d | Health | Last release |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| anthropics/skills | 187.8K | +2.9K | 15 | — |
| DuarteSantos8/openGym | 19.7K | +2.4K | 60 | 2 days ago |
| shiyu-coder/Kronos | 47.0K | +2.3K | 16 | — |
| NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra | 98.2K | +2.3K | 64 | 14 days ago |
| microsoft/VibeVoice | 56.0K | +1.1K | 29 | — |
| megadose/holehe | 15.4K | — | 20 | — |
| Category median | 56.0K | +2.3K | 29 | — |
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