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lemmeknow

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The fastest way to identify anything!

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- bench_string.png
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- - regex.json
- - bytes.rs
  - mod.rs
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- lib.rs
- main.rs
- cli.rs
- identifier_check.rs
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🚀 Installation Guide

1. Get the code

git clone https://github.com/swanandx/lemmeknow

Downloads the entire project code from GitHub to your computer.

cd lemmeknow

Moves into the project folder you just downloaded.

2. Rust

Medium Recommended

Prerequisites

Git Needed to download the project code from GitHub.
Rust (rustup) Installing via rustup also installs cargo.

cargo build --release

Compiles the Rust project.

cargo run

Builds and then immediately runs the program.

✅ If cargo build finishes without errors, it worked. The executable is created under target/.

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    lemmeknow 
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  <sub>Built with ❤︎ by
  <a href="https://twitter.com/_swanandx">swanandx</a> and
  <a href="https://github.com/swanandx/lemmeknow/graphs/contributors">
    contributors
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`lemmeknow` can be used for identifying mysterious text or to analyze hard-coded strings from captured network packets, malwares, or just about anything.

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  <strong>Try it online 
  <a href="https://swanandx.github.io/lemmeknow-frontend/">here</a>
  </strong>
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  <strong>Watch the video on 
  <a href="https://youtu.be/n92YrzELBJU">YouTube</a>
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## 🧰 Usage

```shell
lemmeknow [OPTIONS] <TEXT/FILENAME>
```
<img align="center" src="https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/869896750188625950/1032250968043171881/unknown.png" alt="demo"/>

<details>
<summary>
JSON Output
</summary>

If you want output in JSON format, then pass `-j / --json` flag.
*e.g.* 
```shell
lemmeknow UC11L3JDgDQMyH8iolKkVZ4w --json
``` 
<img align="center" src="https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/998569651183288351/1009151747194892288/lkjosn.png?width=1440&height=512" alt="demo" />
</details>

> Run `lemmeknow --help` for all options!

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## 🔭 Installation
---
### Download executable 📈

You can directly download executable and run it. No need for any installation.
 > Check releases [here](https://github.com/swanandx/lemmeknow/releases/).

---
### Using `cargo` 🦀
```shell
cargo install lemmeknow
```

---
### Using [Nix](https://nixos.org/nix) ❄️
```shell
nix-env -iA nixpkgs.lemmeknow
```

---
### Build it from source 🎯

Clone repository
```shell
git clone https://github.com/swanandx/lemmeknow && cd lemmeknow
```

then build and run

```shell
cargo run -- <TEXT/FILENAME> [OPTIONS]
```

OR

```shell
cargo build --release
cd target/release/
./lemmeknow <TEXT/FILENAME> [OPTIONS]
```

---
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## 🚀 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`

```toml
[dependencies]
lemmeknow = { version = "0.7", default-features = false }

```

OR

```toml
[dependencies]
lemmeknow = { git = "https://github.com/swanandx/lemmeknow", default-features = false }

```

> Refer to [documentation](https://docs.rs/lemmeknow) for more info.

lemmeknow supports webassembly, that is, it can be compiled for `wasm32-unknown-unknown` target!
e.g. [lemmeknow-frontend](https://github.com/swanandx/lemmeknow-frontend)

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## ⚔️ 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` |
| ![File benchmark](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/swanandx/lemmeknow/main/images/bench_file.png)     | ![String benchmark](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/swanandx/lemmeknow/main/images/bench_string.png)       |

> Thanks to [SkeletalDemise](https://github.com/SkeletalDemise) for the benchmarks and the whisker plots ✨

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## 🚧 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.

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## 💖 Acknowledgement

This project is inspired by [PyWhat](https://github.com/bee-san/pyWhat)!
 Thanks to developer of it for the awesome idea <3 .