# Quickstart: Social Media Finder by Name — Profiles Across 3000+

**Use case:** 

Enter a person's name and get their public social media profiles. The name becomes ranked username candidates, each checked against 3000+ sites, returning one row per confirmed profile with URL, category and confidence. Powered by open-source maigret (MIT). Unofficial wrapper.

## Input

```json
{
  "names": [
    "John Smith"
  ],
  "maxPermutations": 6,
  "siteScope": "top500",
  "minConfidence": "0.5",
  "timeout": 20,
  "concurrency": 2,
  "monitorMode": false,
  "includeUnchanged": false,
  "extractProfileFields": false,
  "includeAdultSites": false,
  "disclaimerAck": true
}
```

## Output

```json
{
  "name": {
    "label": "Name",
    "format": "text"
  },
  "username": {
    "label": "Username",
    "format": "text"
  },
  "site": {
    "label": "Site",
    "format": "text"
  },
  "url": {
    "label": "Profile",
    "format": "link"
  },
  "category": {
    "label": "Category",
    "format": "text"
  },
  "confidence": {
    "label": "Confidence",
    "format": "number"
  },
  "headline": {
    "label": "Headline",
    "format": "text"
  },
  "checkedAt": {
    "label": "Checked At",
    "format": "text"
  }
}
```

## About this Actor

This example demonstrates how to use [Social Media Finder by Name — Profiles Across 3000+ Sites](https://apify.com/ntriqpro/social-media-finder-by-name.md) with a specific input configuration. Visit the [Actor detail page](https://apify.com/ntriqpro/social-media-finder-by-name.md) to learn more, explore other use cases, and run it yourself.


## How to integrate an Actor?

This Task's input is already configured above. Use it as-is rather than inventing a new one.

Do not guess an integration path. Every one of them is in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md: the Apify MCP server, Agent Skills with the Apify CLI, the JavaScript and Python clients, the REST API, and the account-free path for an agent with no human to sign in. It also carries the rule on stating cost before the first paid run.

For full API examples (JavaScript, Python, CLI, MCP, OpenAPI), see this Task's Actor page: https://apify.com/ntriqpro/social-media-finder-by-name.md

Each client library has reference documentation the quickstart does not restate: [JavaScript/TypeScript](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md) (`npm install apify-client`) and [Python](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md) (`pip install apify-client`).