Hunt down social media accounts by username across social networks
This report summarizes scanner evidence for sherlock-project/sherlock, a Python project with 93,760 GitHub stars. SynthScan examined 8,822 lines of code across 43 source files, recording 49 pattern matches distributed across 7 syntactic categories. The legacy adjusted pattern signal is 9.9 (Moderate pattern signal); it is not an authorship estimate.
Use the findings to ask whether maintainers can explain intent, verify dependencies, simplify unnecessary scaffolding, and focus review effort. Risk Payload v1 adds ownership, supply-chain, over-engineering, and review-effort vectors when available. These are prompts for human verification, not probabilities, security findings, or measured maintenance costs.
Use each vector to guide manual verification of the underlying findings.
Can maintainers explain intent, assumptions, and trade-offs? 26 finding(s).
Are imports declared and package/API names verified? 1 finding(s).
Are wrappers, guards, and repeated structures necessary? 39 finding(s).
Which changes need focused human review? 49 finding(s).
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Groups findings by configured severity weight. Severity is not a confidence estimate, security rating, or proof that a package is missing. Verify imports against the project's manifests and inspect each finding in its local design context.
This horizontal bar chart shows where configured pattern scores accumulate across directories. Treat the bars as locations to inspect, not as evidence of authorship or code quality. Use the file-level findings to decide whether a directory needs a focused ownership, dependency, complexity, or review check.
The scanner identified 49 distinct pattern matches across 7 syntactic categories. Each entry below represents a discrete location in the source code where the engine recorded a detector match to inspect in context. Expand any category row to inspect the individual file paths, line numbers, code snippets, and the lexical context (CODE, COMMENT, or STRING) in which each match was detected.
Reading the findings table: The Severity column indicates the configured finding weight (CRITICAL / HIGH / MEDIUM / LOW). The Context column identifies whether the match occurred inside executable code, an inline comment, or a string literal — legacy comment-context matches receive a ×1.5 score weight. The ⚡ bolt icon marks clustered matches: three or more patterns within a 10-line window, each receiving an additional ×1.5 density multiplier under the legacy scoring model.
| Severity | File | Line | Snippet | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HIGH | sherlock_project/sherlock.py | 463 | except KeyError: | CODE |
| HIGH | sherlock_project/sherlock.py | 468 | except Exception: | CODE |
| HIGH | sherlock_project/sherlock.py | 472 | except KeyError: | CODE |
| HIGH | sherlock_project/sherlock.py | 477 | except Exception: | CODE |
| HIGH | sherlock_project/sites.py | 175 | except KeyError: | CODE |
| Severity | File | Line | Snippet | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MEDIUM | devel/summarize_site_validation.py | 68 | print(f"Error: File '{xml_path}' does not exist.") | CODE |
| LOW | sherlock_project/sherlock.py | 372 | except Exception: | CODE |
| LOW | sherlock_project/sherlock.py | 376 | except Exception: | CODE |
| LOW | sherlock_project/sherlock.py | 468 | except Exception: | CODE |
| LOW | sherlock_project/sherlock.py | 477 | except Exception: | CODE |
| LOW | sherlock_project/sherlock.py | 713 | except Exception as error: | CODE |
| LOW | sherlock_project/sherlock.py | 767 | except Exception as error: | CODE |
| MEDIUM | sherlock_project/sherlock.py | 797 | print(f"Error: Desired sites not found: {', '.join(site_missing)}.") | CODE |
| LOW | sherlock_project/sites.py | 127 | except Exception as error: | CODE |
| LOW | sherlock_project/sites.py | 138 | except Exception as error: | CODE |
| LOW | sherlock_project/sites.py | 149 | except Exception as error: | CODE |
| LOW | sherlock_project/sites.py | 178 | except Exception: | CODE |
| MEDIUM | .github/workflows/validate_modified_targets.yml | 67 | print(f"Error: Could not find {e.filename}", file=sys.stderr) | CODE |
| MEDIUM | .github/workflows/validate_modified_targets.yml | 70 | print(f"Error: Could not decode JSON from a file - {e}", file=sys.stderr) | CODE |
| Severity | File | Line | Snippet | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LOW | tests/test_unicode.py | 8 | def _make_future_with_exception(exc): | CODE |
| LOW | tests/test_unicode.py | 15 | def test_get_response_handles_unicode_decode_error(): | CODE |
| LOW | tests/test_unicode.py | 35 | def test_get_response_handles_unicode_encode_error(): | CODE |
| LOW | tests/few_test_basic.py | 6 | def test_username_via_message(): | CODE |
| LOW | tests/test_probes.py | 30 | def test_known_positives_via_message(self, sites_info, site, username): | CODE |
| LOW | tests/test_probes.py | 41 | def test_known_positives_via_status_code(self, sites_info, site, username): | CODE |
| LOW | tests/test_probes.py | 50 | def test_known_positives_via_response_url(self, sites_info, site, username): | CODE |
| LOW | tests/test_probes.py | 62 | def test_likely_negatives_via_message(self, sites_info, site, random_len): | CODE |
| LOW | tests/test_probes.py | 84 | def test_likely_negatives_via_status_code(self, sites_info, site, random_len): | CODE |
| LOW | tests/test_probes.py | 98 | def test_username_illegal_regex(sites_info): | CODE |
| LOW | tests/test_manifest.py | 6 | def test_validate_manifest_against_local_schema(): | CODE |
| LOW | tests/test_manifest.py | 23 | def test_validate_manifest_against_remote_schema(remote_schema): | CODE |
| LOW | tests/test_manifest.py | 38 | def test_site_list_iterability (sites_info, target_name, target_expected_err_type): | CODE |
| LOW | tests/sherlock_interactives.py | 23 | def walk_sherlock_for_files_with(pattern: str) -> list[str]: | CODE |
| LOW | tests/test_ux.py | 18 | def test_nsfw_explicit_selection(sites_obj, nsfwsites): | CODE |
| LOW | tests/test_ux.py | 26 | def test_wildcard_username_expansion(): | CODE |
| LOW | tests/test_ux.py | 41 | def test_no_usernames_provided(cliargs): | CODE |
| Severity | File | Line | Snippet | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HIGH | sherlock_project/notify.py | 0 | convert object to string. keyword arguments: self -- this object. return value: nicely formatted string to get informati | STRING |
| HIGH | sherlock_project/result.py | 0 | convert object to string. keyword arguments: self -- this object. return value: nicely formatted string to get informati | STRING |
| HIGH | sherlock_project/sites.py | 0 | convert object to string. keyword arguments: self -- this object. return value: nicely formatted string to get informati | STRING |
| Severity | File | Line | Snippet | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LOW | sherlock_project/sherlock.py | 340 | # Open the file containing account links | COMMENT |
| LOW | sherlock_project/sherlock.py | 727 | # Check if both output methods are entered as input. | COMMENT |
| LOW | sherlock_project/sherlock.py | 754 | # Check if it's a valid pull request | COMMENT |
| LOW | sherlock_project/__main__.py | 14 | # Check if the user is using the correct version of Python | COMMENT |
| Severity | File | Line | Snippet | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LOW | tests/sherlock_interactives.py | 23 | CODE | |
| LOW | sherlock_project/sherlock.py | 172 | CODE | |
| LOW | sherlock_project/sherlock.py | 540 | CODE | |
| LOW | sherlock_project/notify.py | 176 | CODE | |
| LOW | sherlock_project/sites.py | 78 | CODE |
| Severity | File | Line | Snippet | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LOW | sherlock_project/sherlock.py | 13 | CODE |