sherlock-project/sherlock

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94.1k stars · 11.1k forks · Python

Healthy

Healthy: maintained by 4 people in the last 90 days, no known risks.

Why

No rule fired.

What would change this

A dormant maintenance status, a deprecated or archived package, a successor link, or a critical advisory would change this.

Maintenance

Complete

Slowing

Human commits, 30 days: 2
Human commits, 90 days: 12
Human commits, 365 days: 118
Bot share of commits, 365 days: 0%
Last commit: Sep 26, 2026 (18 days ago)
Last human commit: Sep 26, 2026 (18 days ago)
Authors, 90 days: 4
Last release: Sep 8, 2026 (1 month ago)
Median PR merge time: 8 hours

Responsiveness: of 26 recent issues, 15% got a maintainer reply. Median first response: 20 hours.

Sources: Commits, Releases, Merged pull requests, Issues

People

Complete

Owner: Organization
Commits sampled: 118 since Oct 14, 2025
Authors for half of commits: 3
Authors for 80% of commits: 10
Contributors: 271

Top committers

ppfeister: 28% of commits
sdushantha: 21% of commits
matheusfelipeog: 8% of commits
Aaditya-Chunekar: 5% of commits
bjornmorten: 4% of commits

Sources: Commits, Contributors

Stars

Complete

Mostly organic, confidence high

Bars show stars gained each week. Orange bars overlap a burst.

Bursts

Mar 16, 2019 to Mar 17, 2019: about 57 more stars than usual, peak 47 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
Jul 10, 2019 to Jul 30, 2019: about 1.8k more stars than usual, peak 240 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Aug 8, 2019 to Aug 13, 2019: about 445 more stars than usual, peak 122 in one day, a flat block of stars. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Nov 24, 2019 to Dec 6, 2019: about 1.4k more stars than usual, peak 259 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a Hacker News post, a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Feb 17, 2020 to Feb 18, 2020: about 154 more stars than usual, peak 100 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
Feb 22, 2020 to Feb 24, 2020: about 67 more stars than usual, peak 46 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Aug 12, 2020 to Aug 21, 2020: about 1.3k more stars than usual, peak 239 in one day, a spike that tapers off. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
Oct 25, 2020 to Oct 30, 2020: about 1.1k more stars than usual, peak 292 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Dec 15, 2020 to Dec 23, 2020: about 1.1k more stars than usual, peak 306 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Jan 2, 2021 to Jan 8, 2021: about 882 more stars than usual, peak 234 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Mar 6, 2021 to Mar 20, 2021: about 2.2k more stars than usual, peak 393 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Mar 29, 2021 to Mar 31, 2021: about 224 more stars than usual, peak 195 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
May 10, 2021 to May 11, 2021: about 244 more stars than usual, peak 208 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
Sep 20, 2021 to Sep 21, 2021: about 208 more stars than usual, peak 172 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Nov 7, 2021 to Nov 10, 2021: about 375 more stars than usual, peak 177 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Apr 3, 2022 to Apr 4, 2022: about 264 more stars than usual, peak 230 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Apr 18, 2022 to Apr 19, 2022: about 222 more stars than usual, peak 198 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
May 23, 2022 to May 24, 2022: about 222 more stars than usual, peak 195 in one day, a spike that tapers off. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
Jun 13, 2022 to Jun 14, 2022: about 201 more stars than usual, peak 188 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Jul 4, 2022 to Jul 15, 2022: about 979 more stars than usual, peak 214 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Sep 5, 2022 to Sep 6, 2022: about 150 more stars than usual, peak 131 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Oct 3, 2022 to Oct 9, 2022: about 396 more stars than usual, peak 217 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Nov 21, 2022 to Nov 24, 2022: about 296 more stars than usual, peak 125 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Dec 28, 2022 to Dec 29, 2022: about 106 more stars than usual, peak 109 in one day, a spike that tapers off. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
Jan 8, 2023 to Jan 9, 2023: about 101 more stars than usual, peak 106 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Mar 13, 2023 to Mar 14, 2023: about 178 more stars than usual, peak 162 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
May 4, 2023 to May 7, 2023: about 249 more stars than usual, peak 129 in one day, a shape we can't classify. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
Sep 26, 2023 to Sep 27, 2023: about 96 more stars than usual, peak 100 in one day, a spike that tapers off. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
Dec 4, 2023 to Dec 12, 2023: about 787 more stars than usual, peak 291 in one day, a spike that tapers off. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
Feb 18, 2024 to Mar 4, 2024: about 2.8k more stars than usual, peak 563 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Aug 26, 2024 to Sep 19, 2024: about 4.2k more stars than usual, peak 836 in one day, a shape we can't classify. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
Nov 6, 2024 to Nov 7, 2024: about 156 more stars than usual, peak 105 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Dec 25, 2024 to Dec 26, 2024: about 125 more stars than usual, peak 113 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a Hacker News post, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Apr 27, 2025 to Apr 30, 2025: about 155 more stars than usual, peak 65 in one day, a flat block of stars. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
May 19, 2025 to May 22, 2025: about 924 more stars than usual, peak 448 in one day, a spike that tapers off. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
Jul 16, 2025 to Jul 20, 2025: about 311 more stars than usual, peak 185 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Jul 23, 2025 to Aug 3, 2025: about 428 more stars than usual, peak 95 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Jan 8, 2026 to Jan 9, 2026: about 93 more stars than usual, peak 76 in one day, a spike that tapers off. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
Feb 19, 2026 to Feb 20, 2026: about 125 more stars than usual, peak 128 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Mar 29, 2026 to Apr 10, 2026: about 6.1k more stars than usual, peak 1k in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Apr 13, 2026 to Apr 16, 2026: about 252 more stars than usual, peak 123 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Apr 25, 2026 to Apr 28, 2026: about 553 more stars than usual, peak 308 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
May 24, 2026 to May 26, 2026: about 250 more stars than usual, peak 162 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Aug 1, 2026 to Aug 4, 2026: about 599 more stars than usual, peak 331 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Aug 8, 2026 to Aug 12, 2026: about 700 more stars than usual, peak 414 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Sep 16, 2026 to Sep 17, 2026: about 242 more stars than usual, peak 276 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.

9 stars GitHub has since removed (tracked since Oct 13, 2026).

Anyone can buy stars for any repo; bursts alone don't prove the owner did.

Some star bursts have no matching forks, issues, releases, or launch coverage.
Anyone can buy stars for any repo, so this describes the star history only.

Sources: How star history is analyzed

Risk

Complete

Flags

No risk flags.

License

Now: MIT (OSI-approved)
A year ago: MIT (OSI-approved)

Packages

sherlock-project (PYPI): latest 0.16.2, published Sep 10, 2026
Advisories for the latest version: none listed

Package and advisory data: deps.dev and OSV.

OpenSSF Scorecard: 4.5 out of 10 (via deps.dev).

Sources: GitHub: sherlock-project/sherlock, deps.dev: PyPI sherlock-project

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Earlier verdicts

Oct 14, 2026: Healthy
Oct 13, 2026: Healthy
Oct 13, 2026: Caution

Computed 19 hours ago · method 2026.10.2