Issues

• Requesting support for:

  site support request
  sherlock-project/sherlock#3215 · Filter by author smokerup1983-bit opened on Nov 9, 2026

• Optional manual account checks for Xiaohongshu and Douyin

  enhancement
  sherlock-project/sherlock#3214 · Filter by author Oinooooo opened on Nov 9, 2026

• False negative for: dude, youre not gonna believe it.

  false negative
  sherlock-project/sherlock#3213 · Filter by author deeppaz opened on Nov 9, 2026

• Path traversal via username in --txt/--csv/--xlsx output paths

  bug
  sherlock-project/sherlock#3207 · Filter by author Luwcj opened on Nov 9, 2026

• Support searching accounts by phone number or email (reverse username lookup)

  enhancement
  sherlock-project/sherlock#3203 · Filter by author 7hanks opened on Nov 9, 2026

• execution issue

  bug
  sherlock-project/sherlock#3189 · Filter by author bigbootybon opened on Nov 8, 2026
  2

• discord response returns just base url of discrod

  bug
  sherlock-project/sherlock#3186 · Filter by author romanchechyotkin opened on Nov 8, 2026

• Array form of errorType: "response_url" follows redirects, producing false positives

  sherlock-project/sherlock#3169 · Filter by author rahul05ranjan opened on Oct 25, 2026

• --site requests for an excluded site are silently dropped unless the case matches the exclusions file exactly

  sherlock-project/sherlock#3168 · Filter by author rahul05ranjan opened on Oct 24, 2026

• False positive for: several websites

  false positive
  sherlock-project/sherlock#3156 · Filter by author seacat17 opened on Oct 11, 2026

• False positive for: .ru domains

  false negative
  sherlock-project/sherlock#3147 · Filter by author GodfatherTHR opened on Sep 26, 2026

• False positive for: ColourLovers

  false positive
  sherlock-project/sherlock#3126 · Filter by author ImBadEZ opened on Sep 10, 2026

• False positive for: F3.cool

  false positive
  sherlock-project/sherlock#3125 · Filter by author ImBadEZ opened on Sep 10, 2026

• enhancement: warn when 100% of site queries failed (currently byte-identical to a legitimate 'not found' run)

  sherlock-project/sherlock#3121 · Filter by author twelfthlabor opened on Sep 10, 2026
  1

• bug: --timeout inf / nan accepted and crash the whole run; huge finite values block indefinitely

  sherlock-project/sherlock#3120 · Filter by author twelfthlabor opened on Sep 10, 2026

• bug: unwritable output paths crash with a raw traceback and abort all remaining usernames

  sherlock-project/sherlock#3119 · Filter by author twelfthlabor opened on Sep 10, 2026

• bug: --csv / --xlsx silently ignore --output

  sherlock-project/sherlock#3118 · Filter by author twelfthlabor opened on Sep 10, 2026

• bug: --xlsx ignores --folderoutput (spreadsheet always written to CWD)

  sherlock-project/sherlock#3115 · Filter by author twelfthlabor opened on Sep 10, 2026

• bug: --output with a {?}-wildcard username silently overwrites the results file (data loss)

  sherlock-project/sherlock#3114 · Filter by author twelfthlabor opened on Sep 10, 2026

• False positive: BabyRu returns "found" even for nonexistent/invented usernames

  false positive
  sherlock-project/sherlock#3097 · Filter by author surajgoeswithds opened on Aug 29, 2026
  1

• False positive: AniWorld returns "found" for all usernames — profile URLs return 403 Forbidden

  false positive
  sherlock-project/sherlock#3096 · Filter by author surajgoeswithds opened on Aug 29, 2026

• False positive: mastodon.cloud returns "found" for all usernames — instance appears decommissioned

  false positive
  sherlock-project/sherlock#3095 · Filter by author surajgoeswithds opened on Aug 29, 2026

• Add documentation/guidelines for site integration using SSR and Fetch/XHR API detection

  enhancement
  sherlock-project/sherlock#3079 · Filter by author zhangtonghetony opened on Aug 17, 2026
  1

• approach methodology

  enhancement
  sherlock-project/sherlock#3076 · Filter by author ammarhantash opened on Aug 13, 2026
  1

• False positive for: Tweakers, Chess, Instagram, Youtube

  false positive
  sherlock-project/sherlock#3074 · Filter by author joeyfigaro opened on Aug 12, 2026
  2