False positives about sherlock HOT 10 CLOSED

I'm still receiving false positives on several sites. Sherlock says account found, but when I try the link provided, I get a 404. It seems like the simple solution would be to check the status code returned in the http request.

https://www.github.com/rpnix
https://disqus.com/rpnix
https://rpnix.deviantart.com
https://slideshare.net/rpnix
https://bitbucket.org/rpnix
http://en.gravatar.com/rpnix
https://cash.me/rpnix
https://vsco.co/rpnix
https://www.flickr.com/people/rpnix
https://www.quora.com/profile/rpnix
https://pixabay.com/en/users/rpnix
https://giphy.com/rpnix
https://www.taringa.net/rpnix

Some of these are specifically 404 responses, some are a page saying the id wasn't found and requesting you to sign up.

rpn01@R5057499 sherlock [master] 0 $ python3 sherlock.py --version
sherlock.py 0.1.0
Python HTTP for Humans.: 2.19.1
Python: 3.7.0
rpn01@R5057499 sherlock [master] 0 $

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I will try to fix this as quick as possible because if it returns wrong results, then Sherlock is not a reliable :(

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I got false positives on twitter, facebook, github, soundcloud, disqus, deviantart, flipboard, scribd, gravatar, imgsrc, cash.me, behance, goodreads, vsco, newgrounds, tripadvisor, blip.fm, bandcamp, slack, flickr, wordpress and unsplash for 2/3 different usernames.

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I also have false positives on all sites, mentioned by @obskyr and three more:

• Keybase
• Slack
• WordPress

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@obskyr @anabh4569 @2toxic
I am working on this now. I just found out that some sites change their error message. For example GoodReads shows a different error message everytime.

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@obskyr @anabh4569 @2toxic

I fixed it, it should work without any false positives now. 😄

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@rpural Simply checking the HTTP status code that is returned is not a fool proof solution. Not all sites return a 404 when a user profile is not found. For example, Steam IDs and Steam groups do not. You literally have to parse the HTML for a particular string when checking Steam.

I have 3 years of experience building social media checkers. Check out my open-source Python checker if you have time.
https://github.com/checker/cli

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I found false negative, but I can't find where the bug lies. python sherlock.py romanova gives negative result in VK, but https://vk.com/romanova is existing profile.
Maybe reason for wrong result is that profile is hidden, but VK returns 200 and everything is ok.

I checked if it was problem with user agent, but sherlock's is not banned by vk and curl request returns 200.

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I believe that all of these have been addressed as of now.

The only case where we still have problems is in sites where Sherlock depends on error text, and the user ends up getting a different language.

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Closing this because the false positives mentioned in this issue has been fixed. :)

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