Maigret Username OSINT — 3000+ Sites | $19/1K

Maigret Username OSINT — Find Accounts Across 3000+ Sites

Enter a username → discover every account registered under that handle across 3,000+ websites in minutes.

Built on Maigret, the leading open-source OSINT username checker. No API key, no cookies, no login required — Maigret checks public profile URLs directly.

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Use cases

• OSINT investigations — map a target's full digital footprint from a single username.
• Fraud & scam detection — verify whether a suspect handle appears on sites you'd expect (or wouldn't).
• Recruiting & background checks — find a candidate's GitHub, Dribbble, Behance, Stack Overflow, and 3000+ more.
• Brand & trademark monitoring — check whether your brand name is already registered on major platforms before launching.
• Personal digital audit — find all the accounts you've ever created and forgotten about.

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What it returns

One dataset item per found account:

{
  "username": "elonmusk",
  "site_name": "GitHub",
  "profile_url": "https://github.com/elonmusk",
  "site_url_main": "https://www.github.com/",
  "site_tags": ["coding"],
  "http_status": 200,
  "ids_usernames": {},
  "ids_links": [],
  "rank": 10,
  "query_time_ms": 312
}

Field	Description
username	The input username scanned
site_name	Platform name (e.g. "GitHub", "Twitter", "Reddit")
profile_url	Direct URL to the found profile
site_url_main	Platform homepage
site_tags	Category tags: social, coding, gaming, dating, video, music, etc.
http_status	HTTP response code from the profile URL
ids_usernames	Other usernames found on this site (cross-platform ID linking)
ids_links	External profile links extracted from the page
rank	Alexa-based site popularity rank (lower = more popular)
query_time_ms	Time taken to check this site

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Input

Parameter	Default	Description
usernames	—	Required. List of usernames to scan.
topSites	100	Check only the top N most-popular sites. 0 = all ~3000. Top 100 covers all major platforms.
tags	(all)	Restrict scan to sites with specific category tags (e.g. ["social", "coding"]).
timeoutPerSite	5	Seconds to wait per site before skipping.
maxConnections	50	Parallel connections (higher = faster, more aggressive).

Speed guide

Scope	Sites	Typical time
Top 50	~50	~20 seconds
Top 100 (default)	~100	~30–60 seconds
Top 500	~500	~3–5 minutes
All sites	~3000	~10–15 minutes

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vs. alternatives

	This actor	Manual Maigret CLI	Sherlock	Similar paid tools
Sites covered	3000+	3000+	~400	varies
API key needed	No	No	No	Often
Cloud-ready	Yes	No	No	Yes
Parallel usernames	Yes	One at a time	One at a time	Yes
Pay per result	Yes	N/A	N/A	Usually flat
Extracted IDs	Yes	Yes	No	Varies

The actor is a cloud wrapper around the same maigret engine the OSINT community uses — same coverage, zero setup friction.

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Example run (top 100 sites, username "elonmusk")

Found accounts include: GitHub, YouTube, Instagram, Reddit, Telegram, Twitter/X, WordPress, Flickr, SoundCloud, Spotify, and more — typically 15–30 results on a well-known username, 3–10 on an average person.

💰 Pricing & how we compare

Pay-per-result (PPE): $19 / 1K profiles found ($0.019 each). You are billed per account-found actually returned — plus the tiny apify-actor-start fee Apify waives for short runs. No subscription, no API key, no proxy fee on top.

Our edge: Maigret across 3000+ sites · parse_confidence per hit · clean downstream-ready JSON · no API key.

Pricing examples (pay only for what you get, minus Apify's 20%):

Volume	Cost
100 profiles	$1.90
1,000 profiles	$19.00
10,000 profiles	$190.00

How rivals price the same job (live Apify Store, checked 2026-06-09)

Actor	Their price	What they lack vs us
ntriqpro/maigret-actor	$0.02 / profile	5★ same Maigret core — we charm-undercut by 1¢ and add parse_confidence
apivault_labs/maigret-username-osint	$0.007 / profile	aggressive entry price, but newer / unrated

Prices above are competitors' live Store prices at the time of writing; ours is set to sit just below the strongest comparable while returning richer, quality-scored data.

🤖 Use with AI agents (MCP)

This actor is agent-ready (category MCP_SERVERS). Point any MCP client (Claude Desktop, Cursor, n8n AI, LangGraph) at it:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "apify": {
      "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?actors=bovi/maigret-username-osint",
      "headers": { "Authorization": "Bearer <YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN>" }
    }
  }
}