Username Osint Hunter

The problem

Manually checking username availability or account existence across hundreds of platforms is tedious and prone to false positives from parked pages. Developers needing to audit brand handles or conduct authorized research waste hours clicking through search engine results.

What it does

• Installs and configures the maigret OSINT engine for automated handle scanning.
• Executes targeted searches across the top 200+ global social platforms and services.
• Parses structured CSV reports to extract claimed profile URLs.
• Performs secondary HTTP verification to filter out 404s and false positive "squatted" accounts.
• Generates a clean table of confirmed registrations, platform names, and status verdicts.

Frameworks & tools

Python, maigret, pipx, and curl for HTTP verification.

Why this beats prompting it yourself

General LLMs often hallucinate profile URLs or rely on outdated training data. This skill executes live, point-in-time scans against a massive site database and includes a verification layer to ensure the links actually resolve to active profiles.

Use cases

• Audit brand name availability across social media during a launch.
• Recover lost accounts by identifying every platform where a specific handle was registered.
• Gather public profile links for research on public figures or entities.
• Identify potential username squatting on dead or parked pages.

Known limitations

Requires Python and pip/pipx installed on the host. Results are subject to site-specific rate limits and anti-scraping measures.