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bnkc / handlefinder

handlefinder

search handles across hundreds of social networks

2Distinct people
2Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
190GitHub stars
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search handles across hundreds of social networks

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You should also mention you are using Sherlock as the underlying backend which does that actual searching as you did in this post. https://old.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/z1ts1n/i_built_an_a... S̵h̵e̵r̵l̵o̵c̵k̵ ̵u̵s̵e̵s̵ ̵M̵I̵T̵ ̵l̵i̵c̵e̵n̵s̵e̵ ̵a̵n̵d̵ ̵y̵o̵u̵ ̵s̵t̵i̵l̵l̵ ̵h̵a̵v̵e̵n̵'̵t̵ ̵a̵d̵d̵e̵d̵ ̵M̵I̵T̵ ̵l̵i̵c̵e̵n̵s̵e̵ ̵t̵o̵ ̵y̵o̵u̵r̵ ̵r̵e̵p̵o̵.̵ https://github.com/sherlock-project/sherlock https://github.com/bnkc/handlefinder With that said, I like the look of the UI you put on top, great work! Edit: As others have pointed out, the author doesn't need to make their creation MIT as well. I misunderstood the license agreement. They just have to include the notice of the dependencies somewhere. TIL.
In Show HN: I built an app that scans every social media network for your username
I found myself scrolling through Github’s “trending” repos, looking for some coding inspiration. Within the next hour, I stumbled across something called The Sherlock Project. Interesting, It had over 35k stars, must be pretty popular. I quickly cloned the repo and started toying around with it. It didn’t take me long to realize the power of this tool. All I had to do was insert a username, and voila! I was looking at every social media website that was associated with the username. Not only that but direct links to the accounts. I immediately wanted to turn this into a web app so that everyone could use it. My first challenge was that this was a CLI tool, so I got to work. The Sherlock project makes about 400 requests to various site s to check if your username exists. This was going to be tough... I noticed they were using requests.Futu
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reSession to multithread the result. I decided to use a multithreaded Web-socket to continuously report out data to the frontend. After ALOT of trial and error I finally got something working. The Issue now though was that it wouldn't run in production due to a multiprocessing error: Daemonic processes are not allowed to have children. Eventually I learned that you cant use the standard multiprocessing library for this kind of thing, you had to use billiard. Bam! It worked. I quickly hacked together a simple frontend, configured the web socket, and results were pouring in. Turns out, the web-socket is considered a "long running request" as it makes 400 external requests. Maybe I could use celery to offload this process to a worker and queue it up. I started working on it and realized this was a little out of my skill range. I then decided to take a look at the logs where I hosted the code and what do i find? CPU, Memory, and bandwidth all reaching a staggering 100% usage. I was using the free tier of Render that only allowed for one instance of my app...duh. I did some rework of my codebase and it started running a little faster. Needless to say, I learned to take it slow, build tests for my code, and be patient with results. What do you guys think? Any hard lessons learned in coding? What were your takeaways? Here is also a link to the repo: https://github.com/bnkc/handlefinder
In Show HN: I built an app that scans every social media network for your username

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