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sherlock-project / sherlock

Hunt down social media accounts by username across social networks
https://sherlockproject.xyz
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Allow Sherlock to search through Facebook much better #983

Closed elsaversailles closed 3 years ago

elsaversailles commented 3 years ago

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Sherlock on Facebook is a bit hit or miss, specially if the user that your searching into changes his/her name. This make this script return false negative, because when you make Facebook account, your FB ID is permanent which is not effective if the user changes his/her name. Lastly, since there are many people that has the same name in Facebook. FB implemented random number suffix to each FB profile ID which makes searching difficult.

pranitspatil commented 3 years ago

it can be enhanced by searching on Instagram first. step 1: finding an Instagram account. step 2: get his name and profile image. step 3: search on FB with the name and try to match his profile pic.

we can find them also with their bio.

sdushantha commented 3 years ago

With Sherlock's current structure your idea unfortunately cannot be implemented. I'm sure there are tool dedicated to Facebook OSINT which do what you have stated.