cloudshell-tutorial.md

Xbek

Xbek collects a dossier on a person by username only, checking for accounts on a huge number of sites and gathering all the available information from web pages. No API keys required.

Installation

Google Cloud Shell does not ship with all the system libraries Xbek needs (libcairo2-dev, pkg-config). The helper script below installs them and then builds Xbek from the cloned source.

Copy the command and run it in the Cloud Shell terminal:

./utils/cloudshell_install.sh

When the script finishes, verify the install:

xbek --version

Usage examples

Run a basic search for a username. By default Xbek checks the 500 highest-ranked sites by traffic — pass -a to scan the full 3,000+ database.

xbek soxoj

Search several usernames at once:

xbek user1 user2 user3

Narrow the run to sites related to cryptocurrency via the crypto tag (you can also use country tags):

xbek vitalik.eth --tags crypto

Generate reports in HTML, PDF, and XMind 8 formats:

xbek soxoj --html
xbek soxoj --pdf
xbek soxoj --xmind

Download a generated report from Cloud Shell to your local machine:

cloudshell download reports/report_soxoj.pdf

Tune reliability on flaky networks — raise the timeout and retry failed checks:

xbek soxoj --timeout 60 --retries 2

For the full list of options see xbek --help or the CLI documentation.

Further reading

Full project documentation: xbek.readthedocs.io