Social Media Finder — Username Search & Profile Lookup

Social Links Search — Find Social Media Profiles by Name, Username, Email or Phone

Cross-platform social profile discovery. Enter a person's name, username, email, or phone number and get back confirmed profile links across 15+ major platforms — LinkedIn, Twitter/X, Instagram, TikTok, GitHub, Reddit, YouTube, Facebook, Pinterest, Telegram, Medium, Substack, Quora, Twitch, Snapchat.

Use cases

• OSINT / identity verification — confirm a person's online presence from a single identity signal
• Recruiting — from a candidate's name find their GitHub, LinkedIn, and social profiles in one run
• Fraud detection — cross-check an email or username across platforms to detect fake/synthetic identities
• Sales enrichment — given a prospect's name, discover their LinkedIn and social touch-points
• Brand / reputation monitoring — find all accounts associated with a real person or handle

How it works

Two-layer approach, no external API key required:

1. Direct URL probe — for username-shaped queries, builds canonical profile URLs per platform (twitter.com/<handle>, github.com/<handle>, etc.) and probes them via HTTPS. A valid 200 response on a real profile pattern = confirmed hit (high confidence).
2. DuckDuckGo SERP fallback — for name / email / phone queries (and uncovered platforms), runs a site-scoped DuckDuckGo search ("Elon Musk" site:linkedin.com OR site:twitter.com) and validates URLs from the results. No API key, works anonymously.

Sample output

[
  {
    "platform": "Twitter / X",
    "platform_id": "twitter",
    "profile_url": "https://x.com/elonmusk",
    "display_name": "Elon Musk",
    "username": "elonmusk",
    "match_confidence": "high",
    "source": "direct_probe",
    "parse_confidence": "probe_200",
    "query": "elonmusk"
  },
  {
    "platform": "GitHub",
    "platform_id": "github",
    "profile_url": "https://github.com/elonmusk",
    "display_name": "Elon Musk",
    "username": "elonmusk",
    "match_confidence": "high",
    "source": "direct_probe",
    "parse_confidence": "probe_200",
    "query": "elonmusk"
  }
]

Input fields

Field	Type	Default	Description
query	string	—	Name, username (with or without @), email, or phone to search
platforms	list	all (15+)	Restrict to specific platforms. Options: twitter, linkedin, instagram, tiktok, github, reddit, youtube, facebook, pinterest, telegram, medium, substack, quora, twitch, snapchat
maxResults	integer	10	Max profiles to return (1–50)
proxyConfiguration	proxy	RESIDENTIAL	Apify proxy settings. RESIDENTIAL recommended
useSerpFallback	boolean	true	Also run DuckDuckGo SERP for higher recall

Supported platforms

LinkedIn · Twitter/X · Instagram · TikTok · GitHub · Reddit · YouTube · Facebook · Pinterest · Telegram · Medium · Substack · Quora · Twitch · Snapchat

💰 Pricing & how we compare

Pay-per-result (PPE): $1.90 / 1K results. You are billed per profile-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: Name OR username OR email OR phone → confirmed profiles · direct 200-probe + DuckDuckGo SERP fallback · match_confidence · no API key.

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

Volume	Cost
100 results	$0.19
1,000 results	$1.90
10,000 results	$19.00

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

Actor	Their price	What they lack vs us
tri_angle/social-media-finder	$0.002 / result	strong incumbent (6.7K users, 4.79★) — by-name across 13 platforms
automation-lab/username-checker	$0.005 / username	username-only, 460+ platforms
onescales/social-media-profile-finder-pro	FREE	Sherlock-based, username-only

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/social-links-search",
      "headers": { "Authorization": "Bearer <YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN>" }
    }
  }
}