Sherlock will from now on not use the local data.json

It will now use the data that is in the GitHub repo instead. The reason why we are using
this instead of the local one is so that the user has the most up to date data. This prevents
users from creating issue about false positives which has already been fixed or having outdated data
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Siddharth Dushantha 2020-08-07 18:38:19 +02:00
parent 0f51e01686
commit 73989aaf5f

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@ -118,22 +118,19 @@ class SitesInformation():
"""
if data_file_path is None:
#Use internal default.
data_file_path = \
os.path.join(os.path.dirname(os.path.realpath(__file__)),
"resources/data.json"
)
# The default data file is the live data.json which is in the GitHub repo. The reason why we are using
# this instead of the local one is so that the user has the most up to date data. This prevents
# users from creating issue about false positives which has already been fixed or having outdated data
data_file_path = "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sherlock-project/sherlock/master/sherlock/resources/data.json"
#Ensure that specified data file has correct extension.
if ".json" != data_file_path[-5:].lower():
# Ensure that specified data file has correct extension.
if not data_file_path.lower().endswith(".json"):
raise FileNotFoundError(f"Incorrect JSON file extension for "
f"data file '{data_file_path}'."
)
if ( ("http://" == data_file_path[:7].lower()) or
("https://" == data_file_path[:8].lower())
):
#Reference is to a URL.
if "http://" == data_file_path[:7].lower() or "https://" == data_file_path[:8].lower():
# Reference is to a URL.
try:
response = requests.get(url=data_file_path)
except Exception as error: