Sherlock: usernames with "."

Created on 26 Dec 2018 · 6Comments · Source: sherlock-project/sherlock

It breaks when I search for a username that has a dot/period

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plgrazon

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possible missing headers=headers?

import requests

headers = {
    'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.12; rv:55.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/55.0'
}

r = requests.get("https://angel.co/siddharth.dushantha", headers=headers)

print('Siddharth Sivaraman' in r.text)
# True

hldh214 on 26 Dec 2018

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You are right, I tried a username with a period and I got some strange error when it tries AngleList. Its strange though, when I visit https://angel.co/siddharth.dushantha I get a user, but if I make Python do it, I get nothing.

import requests

headers = {
    'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.12; rv:55.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/55.0'
}

r = requests.get("https://angel.co/siddharth.dushantha")

r.status_code
# 404

r.text
# ''

Edit: Do you know whats going on?

sdushantha on 26 Dec 2018

possible missing headers=headers?

import requests

headers = {
    'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.12; rv:55.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/55.0'
}

r = requests.get("https://angel.co/siddharth.dushantha", headers=headers)

print('Siddharth Sivaraman' in r.text)
# True

hldh214 on 26 Dec 2018

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@hldh214
Thank you! I did not see that.

sdushantha on 26 Dec 2018

fixed it :)

sdushantha on 26 Dec 2018

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After this change, any site that has the "noPeriod" attribute set to "True" in the json incorrectly says that the user name is not supported. Even if they do not have a period set in their user name.

The if statement needs to check if there could even be a problem before doing the continue. I will submit another pull request...

hoadlck on 26 Dec 2018

test on ubuntu with Python 3.6.7
python3 sherlock.py username.123

return:

Facebook: Illegal Username Format For This Site!
Wix: Error!
Error Connecting: Crevado

here is the complete list:
[-] Facebook: Illegal Username Format For This Site!
[-] Blogger: Illegal Username Format For This Site!
[-] GitHub: Illegal Username Format For This Site!
[-] DeviantART: Illegal Username Format For This Site!
[-] Flipboard: Illegal Username Format For This Site!
[-] Kongregate: Illegal Username Format For This Site!
[-] LiveJournal: Illegal Username Format For This Site!
[-] Dribbble: Illegal Username Format For This Site!
[-] Newgrounds: Illegal Username Format For This Site!
[-] Contently: Illegal Username Format For This Site!
[-] Slack: Illegal Username Format For This Site!
[-] WordPress: Illegal Username Format For This Site!
[-] Error Connecting: Wix
[-] Wix: Error!
[-] Error Connecting: Crevado
[-] Crevado: Error!
[-] Error Connecting: Carbonmade
[-] Carbonmade: Error!
[-] Coroflot: Not Found!
[-] Error Connecting: Jimdo
[-] Jimdo: Error!