Username search on 5,000+ sites with Maigret: find the social media accounts that use a handle and read each profile's name, bio, followers and join date. Follows linked usernames. A username lookup, checker and Sherlock alternative for OSINT, no login or API key.
Four of the seven runs that other users shared with us in the week of 2026-10-01 failed, all of them on input or on a limit,
none on a scan: three from one free-plan user whose credit could not pay for one profile, one from a number typed in the
tags field. A failed run shows in the Actor's run statistics whoever caused it, and maigret had the lowest quality score
in the portfolio (0.74, 30th percentile, flagged for reliability).
Changed
A run whose own limits leave no room to search now succeeds, with nothing searched or charged. A spending limit
that cannot pay for one profile ($0.015), or a timeout under a minute, used to end the run as failed with "No search could
run". The status message now gives the numbers: "this run's spending limit is $0.0043, which cannot pay for one profile
($0.015). Raise the run's maximum cost in the run options, or add credit, then run it again." The OUTPUT record says
not_run. A scan that broke before saving anything, and a form with no usable username, still fail.
A tag no site has no longer fails the run. It is left out, noted in the status message and the OUTPUT record, and
the scan stays as wide as it would be without the filter (options only narrow). A number in the tags field also points to
the Number of sites field, which is what the user who typed 2000 meant. The same rule covers a real country tag whose
sites are all disabled in Maigret (mk, tm), which used to fail with "No site matches these tags".
Input that is not an object reads as no input, with the plain "Enter at least one username" message instead of a
traceback.
One profile page that cannot be read no longer loses the scan. It is left out with a warning and counted in
profilesLeftOut; the other rows are saved.
An unexpected error no longer skips the summary. The rows already saved stay, OUTPUT is written, the status message
names the error (partial when something was saved, failed when not) and the traceback is in the log.
[1.0] - 2026-09-29
First release: Maigret 0.6.6 (soxoj/maigret, MIT) run as a Python library on Apify.
Added
Username search on the 5,178 working sites of Maigret's bundled database (the 694 sites Maigret marks
disabled are skipped), most popular first. maxSites keeps the top N (the form starts at 500); empty
means every site, as Maigret's -a.
One dataset row per account found: site, profile link, and what Maigret reads from the page (name, bio,
location, followers, join date, photo, links, every extracted field in profileDetails), plus the site's
type and country tags. Sites that answer with a search page instead of a profile (11 in Maigret 0.6.6)
are left out and counted in the summary.
Linked usernames: the usernames Maigret finds on the profiles (its own fields and link patterns) are
searched after the typed ones when recursive is on, up to 3 per run, each row marked with linkedFrom.
Input read as people type it: @handles, comma-separated usernames, profile links (Maigret's site patterns,
then the last part of the link), site types and country names in tags, switches and numbers as strings.
Unreadable entries are skipped with a plain note; a form with no usable username fails at $0.
Pay per event: one profile event per saved row, $0.015. No start fee. The spending limit is checked before
each username; rows are saved most popular site first, so a limit keeps the best rows.
The run stops scanning 45 s before its time limit and keeps every site already checked (Maigret's
output_container), with the reason in the status message.
Key-value store schema for the OUTPUT record, so Console shows it as a named collection.
Default memory 2048 MB: measured on Apify, it finds the same accounts as 4096 MB for 24% to 42% less compute.
OUTPUT summary: each username with its status, sites checked, sites that could not be checked, search-page
matches, profiles found and saved, the notes about the input and the settings used.
