This is a Python script using Flask web framework and BeautifulSoup library to scrape various websites for a given username. It creates a dictionary of URLs where the username is present and saves the results to a JSON file. The script contains a Flask endpoint to handle search requests with a GET parameter for the username. The URL for each website to be searched is stored in a dictionary. If the username is present in the response, it is added to the search results dictionary. The results are returned as a JSON response.

Requirements:

Before starting to work with the project, the following components must be installed:

• Python
• Flask
• BeautifulSoup
• Requests

Installation:

Clone the repository to your local computer:

git clone https://github.com/scyberlife/multi-site-username-scraper

Install all dependencies:

pip install -r requirements.txt

Usage:

Launch the application on MacOS & Linux:

python3 main.py

Launch the application on Windows:

python main.py

Then go to where 'USERNAME' is the username you want to find:

http://localhost:5000/search?username=<USERNAME>

The search results will be saved on the desktop in JSON format in the file search_results.json

Examples of responses:

{
    "johndoe": [
        "https://github.com/johndoe",
        "https://www.tiktok.com/@johndoe",
        "https://pikabu.ru/@johndoe"
    ]
}

Authors:

Sergei Beliaev - Idea and development - scyberlife