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[โ€“] A_Very_Big_Fan@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

I meant the app / web UI for whichever social media lol

Like, if you wanna stalk someone on Instagram, what can you get out of a script that you can't get by just opening their page the normal way

[โ€“] kautau@lemmy.world 7 points 8 months ago

Oh the idea is that it hunts down users across different social media accounts with limited information. Just a way to automate something someone could do themselves.

As you can see here though, it checks a lot of sites

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sherlock-project/sherlock/master/sherlock/resources/data.json