# Holehe (otlite)

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.

- Takes: Email
- Install: `otlite install holehe`, into its own virtualenv
- Pinned: [holehe==1.61](https://pypi.org/project/holehe/1.61/)
- Command: `holehe`
- Python: any otlite runs on (3.10 or newer)
- Verified: 24 Sept 2026, version 1.61 on Ubuntu 26.04 LTS, Python 3.12.14
- Licence: GPL-3.0; 14,986 GitHub stars
- Source: https://github.com/megadose/holehe

otlite is the no-Docker edition of OTInstaller for Linux and macOS: [install it](https://otinstaller.com/otlite) with `curl -fsSL https://get.otinstaller.com/otlite | sh`.

## Run it

| Input | otlite command | Holehe receives |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Email | `otlite run holehe -- e:ada@example.com` | `holehe ada@example.com` |

Arguments after `--` that aren't typed inputs go to the tool unchanged.

## What a run leaves

- `results/holehe/ada@example.com/<time>_holehe_ada@example.com_<run id>.txt`
- `results/holehe/ada@example.com/<time>_holehe_ada@example.com_<run id>.meta.json`
- `results/holehe/ada@example.com/<time>_holehe_ada@example.com_<run id>.envelope.json`

The envelope is the same shape for every tool: the tool and version, the input, timing, exit code and status, the emails, domains, IP addresses and URLs found in the output, and the output file's path, hash and size. `otlite results --tool holehe` lists saved runs, `otlite extract holehe` pulls out indicators and `otlite diff holehe ada@example.com` compares the two latest runs.

## With other tools

`otlite run --all e:ada@example.com` and `otlite auto ada@example.com` run it with every other installed tool that takes the same input.

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