# 3. Footprinting through Social Networking sites

## <mark style="color:red;">1. Finding employees through Harvester</mark>

```
theHarvester -d microsoft -l 200 -b linkedin
```

## 2. Gather Personal Information from Various Social Networking Sites using Sherlock

Sherlock is a python-based tool that is used to gather information about a target person over various social networking sites. Sherlock searches a vast number of social networking sites for a given target user, locates the person, and displays the results along with the complete URL related to the target person.

{% embed url="<https://github.com/sherlock-project/sherlock>" %}

```
python3 sherlock.py user123
```

<figure><img src="/files/U37CtfMkTQSQUDebLOfi" alt=""><figcaption></figcaption></figure>

### Other tools

{% embed url="<https://www.social-searcher.com>" %}

{% embed url="<https://github.com/issamelferkh/userrecon>" %}

## <mark style="color:red;">3. Gather information with followerwank</mark>

It provides info about activity, followers, topics etc

{% embed url="<https://followerwonk.com/analyze>" %}

### <mark style="color:red;">Other tools</mark>

{% embed url="<https://www.hootsuite.com/>" %}

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