What am i doing wrong?

[kj5dpi]

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Ok so I have been trying to get sherlock to work on my pc with windows 11. I cannot for the life of me figure it out. The instructions seem simple enough, but my computer isn't recognizing any of the prompts. syntax errors, doesn't recognize, doesn't exits so on and so forth. I am running python 3 as I just installed it. I have done a lot of reading today with no improvement in functionality on either front. Can someone help me getting this to work?

[matheusfelipeog]

Hi @kj5dpi, thanks for opening this issue.

Could you provide more information, please? What command are you trying to execute, and what error messages are you getting in these attempts?

[kj5dpi]

I'm trying to get Sherlock installed , my computer will not recognize the code #$~ etc. , along with words like (git), I have downloaded git , didn't work, updated Python, it allows me to update the pips and pandas but still nothing.

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On Tue, Feb 6, 2024, 6:21 AM Matheus Felipe ***@***.***> wrote: Hi @kj5dpi <https://github.com/kj5dpi>, thanks for opening this issue. Could you provide more information, please? What command are you trying to execute, and what error messages are you getting in these attempts? — Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#1989 (comment)>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/BF53JIPRFRCEQDLHEEO3HKDYSIN5DAVCNFSM6AAAAABC3JRS62VHI2DSMVQWIX3LMV43OSLTON2WKQ3PNVWWK3TUHMYTSMRZGQYDQMRWGA> . You are receiving this because you were mentioned.Message ID: ***@***.***>

[matheusfelipeog]

@kj5dpi, the $ character is not part of the command. It's just to signify in the documentation that it's a command to be used in the terminal.

You should only use what comes after it. For example, use only this to clone the project on your machine:

git clone https://github.com/sherlock-project/sherlock.git

Just follow the same logic for the other commands.

[kj5dpi]

I also tried that , it didn't work last night, I've also tried the git clone with the provided line and with just the link it doesn't seems to recognize the issue, I also thought well maybe try the search and the search doesn't work so I think it's a PC bug I may not be able to to fix.

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On Tue, Feb 6, 2024, 9:19 AM Matheus Felipe ***@***.***> wrote: @kj5dpi <https://github.com/kj5dpi>, the $ character is not part of the command. It's just to signify in the documentation that it's a command to be used in the terminal. You should only use what comes after it. For example, use only this to clone the project on your machine: git clone https://github.com/sherlock-project/sherlock.git Just follow the same logic for the other commands. — Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#1989 (comment)>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/BF53JIL643RK36DGHDU2P7TYSJCZXAVCNFSM6AAAAABC3JRS62VHI2DSMVQWIX3LMV43OSLTON2WKQ3PNVWWK3TUHMYTSMZQGAZTENJQGU> . You are receiving this because you were mentioned.Message ID: ***@***.***>

[matheusfelipeog]

@kj5dpi Try reinstalling git and python, and make sure they are added to the system's path. Usually, there's a checkbox in the installer interface to add the program to the path.

After that, if the issue persists, show me via screenshot or a copy of the message returned when you try to execute one of the commands.

[Aland-A]

@kj5dpi Have you added Git to your environment variables? If not then refer to the following video, minute 1:40:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt9oDAvpG4I

[ZombieGeeK0]

Yes, I did the same

[matheusfelixsm]

Hello, I installed sherlock and python on my PC and tested. The first day it worked normally, but then it didn't want to work anymore. The error "ERROR: string indices must be integers, not 'str' " keeps appearing every time I try to search for a new user. I already went through the entire installation process and it didn't help. What can I do in this case?

[ppfeister]

@matheusfelixsm

I might know what's up. What's the command you ran?
Knowing what you ran specifically helps with reproducing & diagnosing the error.

Apologies @matheusfelipeog for the mis-ping, lol

[matheusfelixsm]

No problem haha

I did it in this exact order the first time:

cd .\sherlock-master

python -m pip install -r requirements.txt

python --help

python sherlock matheusfelix

The second time I just went into the Sherlock folder again and asked directly to search like I did in the last code I sent above

[ppfeister]

@matheusfelixsm

This error is being presented as a result of a recent change to data.json (the file that lists all the sites to check), which older versions apparently don't parse properly.

The easiest fix for now will be simply redownloading Sherlock so that you have the new code.

Alternatively, if you can't redownload right now, --local will tell it to use your local copy instead of the new one from online.

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I'll make some tweaks so other people don't encounter this blindly

[matheusfelixsm]

I had downloaded the .zip file last week

I downloaded it again now and it really worked, thank you very much, I am testing right now