# osintverse-community/pywhat

Identifies what a string is: email, IP, URL, crypto address, hash, phone number, API key and hundreds more

## Install and run

```sh
ot install osintverse-community/pywhat
ot run osintverse-community/pywhat --text example@example.com
```

The first `ot run` installs the tool after asking once. New to `ot`? See https://otinstaller.com/docs/getting-started.

From an AI agent, through ot's MCP server (`ot mcp`):

```
run_tool {"tool":"osintverse-community/pywhat","inputs":{"text":"example@example.com"}}
```

## Inputs

| Name | Type | Required | Default | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `text` | string | yes |  | Text to identify |

## Outputs

Finds: email, ip, url, crypto_address, other.

## What a run does

- Does not contact the target.
- Does not collect personal data.
- Does not need an account.
- Does not notify the target.
- Usually takes about 3 seconds.
- Runs offline (no network access).

This tool is passive, so an agent can run it without asking. See https://otinstaller.com/docs/agents#consent.

## Trust

- Latest version: 5.1.0
- Signed: no
- Verified publisher: yes
- Health: unknown
- Installs in the last 30 days: 0
- License: MIT
- Runtime: Python wheel (pipx), pinned by hash
- Repository: https://github.com/osintverse-community/pywhat
- Packaged by the community from a third-party tool

## Links

- Web page: https://otinstaller.com/osintverse-community/pywhat
- JSON: https://api.otinstaller.com/v1/tools/osintverse-community/pywhat
- README: https://github.com/osintverse-community/pywhat#readme
- Homepage: https://github.com/bee-san/pyWhat
- Security details: https://otinstaller.com/osintverse-community/pywhat/security