Social Media Finder by Name — Find Profiles on 3000+ Sites

You have a name. You do not have a username. This Actor closes that gap.

Give it "John Smith" and it builds the username candidates a real person would have picked — johnsmith, john.smith, john_smith, smithjohn — ranks them, and checks each one against 3000+ sites. You get one row per confirmed public profile, with the URL, a category and a confidence score.

Most profile finders check a dozen platforms. This one uses the full site catalogue of the open-source maigret engine.

What you get

Row type	What it is	Charged
profile-found	One confirmed public profile: name, username, site, URL, category, confidence	yes
username-checked	One summary per username candidate: how many profiles it found and which site scope was searched	yes
name-summary	One unbilled roll-up per name you submitted	no
notice rows	Status messages: free-plan cap, charge limit, invalid input	no

Every row carries a rowType, so filtering results is one expression.

Example result row

{
  "rowType": "profile-found",
  "name": "John Smith",
  "username": "john.smith",
  "site": "GitHub",
  "url": "https://github.com/john.smith",
  "category": "Developer",
  "confidence": 1.0,
  "httpStatus": 200,
  "headline": "John Smith as `john.smith` — 14 profiles, top: GitHub, Instagram, Reddit"
}

Input

Field	Default	What it does
names	["John Smith"]	People to look up. Up to 10 per run.
maxPermutations	6	Username candidates built per name, best first. Up to 72.
siteScope	top500	top300, top500 or all3000.
minConfidence	0.5	Drop matches scored below this. Raise it for common names.
concurrency	2	Username candidates looked up in parallel.
monitorMode	false	Return only what changed since the previous run with the same key.
extractProfileFields	false	Opt-in: also save full name, bio, avatar, location.
includeAdultSites	false	Adult and webcam sites are excluded unless you ask for them.
disclaimerAck	required	Confirms lawful use.

How confidence works

Confidence answers "is this the person you named", not "does this account exist". It starts from how completely the username matches the name — a form containing every name element scores highest, a bare first name much lower — and is reduced when the engine reports a fuzzy match or the site answered with something other than HTTP 200. A single common given name is deliberately scored low, because thousands of unrelated people hold it.

A match means a username exists on a site. It is not proof of identity. Verify before you act on it.

Runtime and cost

Runtime scales with names × maxPermutations ÷ concurrency. Measured 2026-09-03: one username candidate against 500 sites takes about 27 seconds. The default input (one name, six candidates, top 500, concurrency 2) finishes in a couple of minutes.

Pricing is pay-per-event and is shown on the Actor's store page. Free-plan runs return up to 25 result rows and then finish normally with a notice row; upgrade your Apify plan for the full set in one run. If a run reaches its charging limit it stops and says so rather than handing out uncharged results.

Use cases

• Sales. Paste a list of lead names and get their real profile URLs without knowing a single handle.
• Recruiting. See a candidate's public GitHub, X and Medium presence in one table instead of twelve searches.
• Investigation and due diligence. Hand over a name; the Actor builds the username candidates and sweeps the catalogue for you.
• Monitoring. Schedule it with monitorMode and get only the profiles that appeared, changed or vanished since last week.

Legal and privacy

This Actor is an unofficial wrapper around the open-source maigret engine (MIT). It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by that project or by any site it checks.

• It performs passive lookups of publicly reachable profile pages. It never logs in, never bypasses authentication or CAPTCHAs, and never notifies the person.
• By default it returns account-existence evidence only — site, URL, category, confidence. Personal profile fields are opt-in (extractProfileFields).
• You are the data controller for anything you collect. Use it only where you have a lawful basis, and comply with GDPR, CCPA, PIPA and each site's terms.
• Do not use it for stalking, harassment, or any decision about a person that requires a regulated background check.

Next steps

• Username OSINT Search — already know the handle? Skip the name-to-username step.
• Email OSINT Search — see which services an email address is registered on.
• Phone Number Validator — line type, carrier and reachability for a lead list.