lemmeknow

⚡ 🦀 🔍
Just ask "lemmeknow"!
The fastest way to identify anything


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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.

Try it online here


Watch the video on YouTube


🧰 Usage

shell lemmeknow [OPTIONS] <TEXT/FILENAME> demo

JSON Output

If you want output in JSON format, then pass -j / --json flag. e.g. shell lemmeknow UC11L3JDgDQMyH8iolKkVZ4w --json demo

Run lemmeknow --help for all options!


## 🔭 Installation

Download executable 📈

You can directly download executable and run it. No need for any installation.

Check releases here.


Using cargo 🦀

shell cargo install lemmeknow


Using 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]



🚀 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 for more info.

lemmeknow supports webassembly, that is, it can be compiled for wasm32-unknown-unknown target! e.g. lemmeknow-frontend


⚔️ 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 | String benchmark |

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 .