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Username Search & Lookup Across 400+ Sites — Sherlock

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Username search and lookup across 400+ social networks. Give it one or more usernames and it checks every site, returning each platform where that username exists with the direct profile URL and HTTP status. For OSINT investigation, handle availability checks and account discovery.

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from $1.00 / 1,000 record scrapeds

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BowTiedRaccoon

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6 days ago

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Lead generation

Social media

You can access the Username Search & Lookup Across 400+ Sites — Sherlock programmatically from your own applications by using the Apify API. You can also choose the language preference from below. To use the Apify API, you’ll need an Apify account and your API token, found in API & Integrations in Apify Console.

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1import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';
2
3// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
4// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
5const client = new ApifyClient({
6    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
7});
8
9// Prepare Actor input
10const input = {
11    "sp_intended_usage": "Describe your intended use...",
12    "sp_improvement_suggestions": "Share your suggestions here...",
13    "sp_contact": "Share your email here...",
14    "usernames": [
15        "elonmusk"
16    ],
17    "maxItems": 0,
18    "concurrency": 20,
19    "timeout": 10000
20};
21
22// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
23const run = await client.actor("jungle_synthesizer/sherlock-scraper").call(input);
24
25// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
26console.log('Results from dataset');
27console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
28const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
29items.forEach((item) => {
30    console.dir(item);
31});
32
33// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

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The Apify API client for JavaScript is the official library that allows you to use Username Search & Lookup Across 400+ Sites — Sherlock API in JavaScript or TypeScript, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.

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