ServerTimeoutError on all platforms

iojw / socialscan

Python library for accurately querying username and email usage on online platforms

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ServerTimeoutError on all platforms #11

Open olddisk opened 4 years ago

olddisk commented 4 years ago

Yeah, I also discovered there was a ServerTimeoutError on all of the platforms scanned.

olddisk commented 4 years ago

Screenshot here: https://prnt.sc/pqj4dy

iojw commented 4 years ago

How many usernames did you search for and for which platforms?

olddisk commented 4 years ago

I had a bulk file with about 400000 usernames lol

iojw commented 4 years ago

@mharris3960 The tool executes all the queries simultaneously so with that many queries from the same IP address you are likely being rate-limited by the platforms. The best way to overcome this currently would using a list of proxy servers (the --proxy-list option). Other than that, I would love to tackle this but I don't currently see a strong solution (see #5).