Curated OSINT namecheckers

A curated list of tools and sites for username search, account discovery, and username availability (“namecheck”) across social networks and the web. It focuses on namecheckers and related workflows—not general OSINT as a whole.

Contents

• Open source tools
• OSINT online tools
• Branding
• Toolkits
• Useful links
• Contributing
• Disclaimer
• License

Open source tools

• Maigret — Username search with the largest site set and profile parsing.

  • 5900 sites 👍; profile parsing (PII, links to other profiles) 👍; recursive search on newly found usernames 👍; filter by country/category tags 👍; very few false positives 👍; censorship and captcha detection; pip install maigret.

• Sherlock — The original username hunter; mature, widely packaged.

  • 479 sites; batch search 👍; Tor and proxy support 👍; CSV/XLSX/JSON export 👍; custom sites and rules; pipx install sherlock-project; also Docker, dnf, Homebrew.

• Enola — Fast Go-based username hunter with modern CLI.

  • 407 sites; Go single binary 👍; Docker support; CSV/JSON export; go install github.com/theyahya/enola/cmd/enola@latest.

• Snoop — Username search with the largest raw site count; partially paid.

  • ~350 sites in free demo, 5300+ in paid full version 👍; country ranking and filtering 👍; multi-format reports (CSV/HTML/maps) 👍; geolocation plugins; Android/Termux support; binary releases.

• Aliens Eye — AI-powered username scanner with confidence scoring.

  • 841 sites 👍; AI-enhanced detection with confidence scoring (0–100%) 👍; three scan levels (basic/intermediate/advanced); username variation generation; JSON reporting; multi-OS including Android/Termux; pip install -r requirements.txt.

• Blackbird — Username and email search using the WhatsMyName database.

  • 600+ sites 👍; email search 👍; AI-powered profiling (free) 👍; PDF/CSV/JSON export 👍; category filtering; NSFW sites included by default; pip install -r requirements.txt.

• WhatsMyName — Community-maintained site-check database (data only, no built-in checker).

  • 732 sites 👍; JSON format used by Blackbird, Naminter, recon-ng, Maltego, SpiderFoot, and others; web UI at whatsmyname.app.

• Naminter — Async username enumeration using the WhatsMyName dataset.

  • 730+ sites 👍; TLS-level browser impersonation via curl_cffi (bypasses Cloudflare and bot detection that block tools using plain requests/aiohttp) 👍; category filtering 👍; PDF/CSV/JSON/HTML export 👍; pip install naminter; also Docker.

• Linkook — Username search with email/breach checks and Neo4j graph export.

  • 64 sites; email discovery + breach check via HudsonRock's Cybercrime Intelligence DB or Have I Been Pwned API 👍; Neo4j-friendly JSON export for graph visualization of accounts/usernames/emails 👍; extracts linked accounts from profile pages (similar to Maigret + socid-extractor, but on a smaller site set); default scan covers only 10 "connected" sites, use --scan-all for full coverage; pipx install linkook.

• social-analyzer — Large-scale username search with layered detection.

  • 999 sites 👍; web UI 👍; multilayer detection (OCR, normal, advanced, special) 👍; metadata extraction; pip install social-analyzer; no granular confidence scoring — maybe status produces false positives 🚫.

• nexfil — Lightweight and fast username search.

  • 328 sites; batch processing 👍; results auto-saved to text files; pip install nexfil; no longer maintained (last commit Sep 2023) 🚫.

• DetectDee — Search by username, email, or phone; written in Go.

  • 372 sites; screenshot capture 👍; WAF evasion; ChatGPT integration for result tagging; Google search integration; pre-compiled binaries; no longer maintained (last commit Jul 2023) 🚫.

• vesper — Rust-based async username scanner using a Sherlock-derived database.

  • 299 sites; Rust + Tokio for fast async scanning 👍; confidence scoring (CONFIRMED/LIKELY) 👍; headless Chrome screenshot capture 👍; Tor proxy support; JSON report export; built-in site-validation test mode; cargo build --release.

• tookie-osint — Username discovery with a web UI.

  • 261 sites; headless mode; CSV export; multi-OS installer scripts; ~20% false positives 🚫.

• Investigo — Go-based tool using Sherlock’s site database.

  • Uses Sherlock DB 👍; concurrent requests (32 default) 👍; Tor proxy support; content downloading; go build.

• sagemode — Simple username search.

  • 146 sites; real-time CLI output; known false positives on some platforms 🚫; no longer maintained (last commit Dec 2023) 🚫.

• username_searcher — Browser-based username checker with a local Node.js proxy; bilingual Chinese/English UI.

  • 104 sites (999 in the bundled database, but only the "common" tier is queried); local web UI with live progress 👍; username permutation generator 👍; JSON/CSV export 👍; validation rules for only 3 sites, the rest rely on status/title/length heuristics — many results land in "manual verify" 🚫; upstream proxy hardcoded to a LAN address 🚫; node js/proxy-server.js + node js/simple-server.js.

• Arina-OSINT — Username search written in C#.

  • 76 sites; requires .NET Core 3.1; no longer maintained (last commit Mar 2022) 🚫.

• GhostTrack — Multi-purpose OSINT tool (IP, phone, username) with interactive menu.

  • 24 sites for username tracking; primary focus is on IP/phone lookup, username search is one of four menu options; HTTP 200 status code check only — high false positive rate 🚫; no longer maintained (last commit Jan 2024) 🚫.

• Userrecon — Bash-based username search.

  • 66 sites; shell script (no dependencies); many checks broken (Instagram, Facebook, Twitter flagged); no longer maintained (last commit Feb 2021) 🚫.

• NicknameFinder — Username search organized by site categories.

  • 44 sites (forums, games, social, finance); no longer maintained (last commit Apr 2021) 🚫.

• netizenship — Multi-threaded username search.

  • 36 sites; pip install netizenship; no longer maintained (last commit Dec 2021) 🚫.

• Search4 — Small and fast username search.

  • 35 sites; multi-threaded; pip install search4; no longer maintained (last commit Jul 2022) 🚫.

• Stalkie — Go-based username scanner with confidence scoring and headless browser mode.

  • 13 sites; confidence scoring (0–100%) with multi-signal analysis (HTTP status, title match, body mentions) 👍; script-tag stripping to reduce false negatives 👍; login wall detection 👍; headless browser via go-rod for JS-heavy sites 👍; Tor/SOCKS5 proxy support; bulk input; CSV/JSON/TXT export; go build.

• Socialscan — Checks email and username availability via registration APIs (not profile URLs).

  • 11 platforms (Instagram, Twitter, GitHub, Tumblr, GitLab, Reddit, etc.) 👍; 100% accuracy by querying signup endpoints 👍; async (100 queries in ~4 sec) 👍; pip install socialscan.

• recon-ng — Full OSINT reconnaissance framework with a WhatsMyName profiler module.

  • Modular Metasploit-like architecture 👍; interactive console with tab completion 👍; REST API and web UI 👍; Docker support; username check is one module among many.

• SocialPath — Track users across 10 platforms with deeper extraction on 4; web UI.

  • Django-based web interface; detailed data extraction (Twitter, StackOverflow, Instagram, Reddit); requires API keys; no longer maintained (last commit Jan 2021) 🚫.

• thorndyke — Lightweight username enumeration.

  • 200+ sites; pip install thorndyke; archived by author — no longer supported 🚫.

• sherlock-go — Minimal Go implementation of Sherlock.

  • ~164 sites; faster than Python original; pre-compiled binaries; no longer maintained (last commit Aug 2019) 🚫.

• Gideon — OSINT tool for phone numbers, car plates, nicknames, and torrents by IP.

  • Russian-focused; username search is a secondary feature; no longer maintained (last commit Nov 2020) 🚫.

OSINT online tools

Tools you can use without installing anything — web and chat. Many show ads and may log requests.

• WhatsMyName — ~250 sites; web UI for the WhatsMyName dataset; rich category filters.

• Lullar — Free email/name/username people search across 175+ platforms; no sign-up, since 2009.

• Usersearch — ~120 popular sites, 100+ generic forums, 6 dating sites, crypto forums.

• analyzeid username checker — 80+ social sites; summarizes what public signals suggest about a taken username 👍.

• iDCrawl — 12 sites.

• suIP.biz — Online Sherlock-style checker.

• WhatsMyName App — 732 sites; full web UI with guides, tutorials, step-by-step walkthroughs, and CSV export. Browser-based, no login required.

• Maigret Telegram bot — 5900 sites from a chat, nothing to install; community bot with extra features; runs the Maigret engine.

Branding

These tools focus on username availability and brand/domain squatting checks—not on finding a specific person’s accounts. Marketers often use them for brand protection; many include domain checks alongside social handles.

• Namecheckup — 270+ networks and sites; 45 TLDs.

• InstantUsername — 100+ social sites; open source 👍.

• CHECKUSER.org — Popular domains plus 52 social sites.

• Namechk — Availability across 96 sites and 36 TLDs.

• Namevine — Search one name across domains and social handles; free, optional account.

• Checkerapi — Six services; open source 👍.

• 360username — AI-powered Domain name and sicial media username generator and checker.

Toolkits

• One-plus OSINT Toolkit — Email/username-oriented OSINT toolkit.

• Aware-online username search — Browser-based username search tool.

• Intelligence X username tools — Username tab of the IntelX tool directory; links out to third-party username search services.

Useful links

• OSINT Handbook (Sept 2020) — “Username Check”

• OH SHINT! — Usernames — Curated list of username OSINT resources.

• What’s wrong with namecheckers? — Essay on limitations of namechecking tools.

SOWEL Classification

• SOWEL-8. Using Nicknames
• SOTL-6.2. Check Nicknames Reuse to Find Another Account

Contributing

Pull requests are welcome. Add one line per tool in the form - [Name](url) — short summary (optional indented sub-bullets for notable pros/cons). Prefer maintained projects and working links; note unmaintained or broken services in the line text. Avoid duplicate entries and pure spam.

Disclaimer

Use these tools lawfully and ethically, only on data you are allowed to access, and in line with each platform’s terms and applicable law. This list is for defensive OSINT and research; authors of this repository are not responsible for misuse.

License

This repository is licensed under the MIT License.