Apply different rules for different networks usernames about sherlock HOT 4 CLOSED

Unfortunately sherlock doesn't take any of these into account and it can be misleading for user (for example, he might think that username is taken but it is, in fact, illegal).

That is very true.

A way we could fix that is to use a regex for each of the networks. I am not good with regex but, I guess we can learn on the go 😄

When I think about it, I kinda feel like we should make a seperate file for each social network. Just like youtube-dl. In youtube-dl each site has its own extractor.

https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/

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I wonder how well the user name requirements are documented for each site? I found an place here that had the requirements for GitHub's user name. There are quite a few requirements.

I don't think that the regular expressions will be very hard: it is the research to find the exact requirements.

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I added the infrastructure to be able to specify a unique regular expression pattern for each site with pull request #16 .

The regular expression for GitHub itself is correct, but I am not sure about all of the rest.

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Closing this because this is being done now. It is very difficult to come up with a regex for some sites because they do no provide us any information about what they username criteria is. We currently have 16 sites which has a regex check.

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