From 60cc6434d961f05ad96022c8cf176f90a892a0f7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Siddharth Dushantha <siddharth.dushantha@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 8 Aug 2020 18:56:50 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] added version checking

If the there is a newer version available on GitHub then the user will
be told. This to encourage users to have the up to date version of
Sherlock which has the newest features.
---
 sherlock/sherlock.py | 9 +++++++++
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)

diff --git a/sherlock/sherlock.py b/sherlock/sherlock.py
index 91c723e1..6ac01fdc 100644
--- a/sherlock/sherlock.py
+++ b/sherlock/sherlock.py
@@ -493,6 +493,15 @@ def main():
 
     args = parser.parse_args()
 
+    # Check for newer version of Sherlock. If it exists, let the user know about it
+    r = requests.get("https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sherlock-project/sherlock/master/sherlock/sherlock.py")
+    remote_version = str(re.findall('__version__ = "(.*)"', r.text)[0])
+    local_version = __version__
+
+    if remote_version != local_version:
+        print("Update Available!\n" +
+              f"You are running version {local_version}. Version {remote_version} is available at https://git.io/sherlock")
+
 
     # Argument check
     # TODO regex check on args.proxy