# Maigret


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The Commissioner Jules Maigret is a fictional French police detective, created by Georges Simenon. His investigation method is based on understanding the personality of different people and their interactions.
## About
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](https://github.com/sherlock-project/) 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](./sites.md)), by default search is launched against 500 popular sites in descending order of popularity.
## Main features
* Profile pages parsing, [extracting](https://github.com/soxoj/socid_extractor) personal info, links to other profiles, etc.
* Recursive search by new usernames found
* Search by tags (site categories, countries)
* Censorship and captcha detection
* Very few false positives
## Installation
**NOTE**: Python 3.6 or higher and pip is required.
**Python 3.8 is recommended.**
```bash
# install from pypi
$ pip3 install maigret
# or clone and install manually
$ git clone https://github.com/soxoj/maigret && cd maigret
$ pip3 install .
```
## Using examples
```bash
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](https://github.com/soxoj/maigret/wiki/Command-line-options).
With Docker:
```
docker build -t maigret .
docker run maigret user
```
## Demo with page parsing and recursive username search
[PDF report](./static/report_alexaimephotographycars.pdf), [HTML report](https://htmlpreview.github.io/?https://raw.githubusercontent.com/soxoj/maigret/main/static/report_alexaimephotographycars.html)



[Full console output](./static/recursive_search.md)
## License
MIT © [Maigret](https://github.com/soxoj/maigret)
MIT © [Sherlock Project](https://github.com/sherlock-project/)
Original Creator of Sherlock Project - [Siddharth Dushantha](https://github.com/sdushantha)