lemmeknow can be used for identifying mysterious text or to analyze hard-coded strings from captured network packets, malwares, or just about anything.
🧰 Usage
Pass TEXT or /PATH/TO/FILE as argument. If you want output in JSON format, then pass -j / --json flag.
lemmeknow [OPTIONS] <TEXT/FILENAME>
e.g. lemmeknow UC11L3JDgDQMyH8iolKkVZ4w --json
Run
lemmeknow --helpfor all options!
🔭 Installation
Download executable 📈
You can directly download executable and run it. No need for any installation.
Check releases here.
Using cargo 🦀
cargo install lemmeknow
Build it from source 🎯
Clone repository
git clone https://github.com/swanandx/lemmeknow && cd lemmeknow
then build and run
cargo run
e.g. cargo run -- <TEXT/FILENAME> [OPTIONS]
OR
cargo build --releasecd target/release/./lemmeknow
e.g. ./lemmeknow <TEXT/FILENAME> [OPTIONS]
🚀 API
Want to use this as a crate in your project? or make a web api for it? No worries! Just add a entry in your Cargo.toml
[]
= { = "0.5", = false }
OR
[]
= { = "https://github.com/swanandx/lemmeknow", = false }
Refer to documentation for more info.
lemmeknow supports webassembly, that is, it can be compiled for wasm32-unknown-unknown target!
⚔️ Benchmarks
lemmeknow is around 33x faster than pywhat for a file of 8.7MB, and it is 3x faster for a single string!
| A file of 8.7MB | A single string |
|---|---|
Summary: lemmeknow.exe floss.exe ran 33.13 ± 9.74 times faster than pywhat floss.exe |
Summary: lemmeknow.exe 3FZ..Zc5 ran 3.29 ± 0.77 times faster than pywhat 3FZ..Zc5 |
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Thanks to SkeletalDemise for the benchmarks and the whisker plots ✨
🚧 Contributing
You can contribute by adding new regex, improving current regex, improving code performance or fixing minor bugs! Just open a issue or submit a PR.
💖 Acknowledgement
This project is inspired by PyWhat! Thanks to developer of it for the awesome idea <3 .

