add: Facebook username validation (social category)#263
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Uses the account recovery endpoint to check if a Facebook username exists without triggering any notification to the target. Includes client-side pre-validation of Facebook username format (allowed characters, length, no numeric-only, no leading/trailing periods) to avoid unnecessary requests.
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Summary
The previous approach (PR #46) checked
facebook.com/{username}HTTP status codes, but Facebook now returns HTTP 400 for all profile URL requests regardless of whether the username exists. This implementation uses the same recovery endpoint as the existing email scanner module, adapted for synchronous username lookups.Pre-validation checks
Tested with
Supersedes #46.
Test plan
user-scanner -u <existing_username> -m facebook→[✔] Founduser-scanner -u <fake_username> -m facebook→[✘] Not Founduser-scanner -u <username>(full scan) → Facebook appears in social results12345,user@name, empty) →[!] Errorwith clear message