Social Footprint OSINT — Email & Username Account Finder

What does Social Footprint OSINT do?

Social Footprint OSINT resolves the digital footprint of a single email address or username in one passive lookup. Give it octocat or someone@example.com, and it reports which online platforms the identity is registered on — GitHub, GitLab, Instagram, Pinterest, Reddit, Twitter, Tumblr and Firefox — then enriches the result with a Gravatar profile (for emails) or the GitHub public profile (for usernames), and rolls everything up into a single footprint summary with an exposure score.

It is built on the open-source socialscan library and runs 100% passively: it only queries each platform's own public availability endpoint plus public profile APIs. It never attempts a login, a password reset, or anything that would notify the person being looked up. Running on the Apify platform adds API access, scheduling, integrations and monitoring on top.

Why use Social Footprint OSINT?

• Account recovery — find where you (or a client) signed up years ago.
• OSINT & due diligence — map an identity's public presence from a single seed.
• Brand & impersonation checks — see where a username is already taken.
• Security research — assess a target's digital exposure during an authorized engagement.

Unlike single-source checkers, this Actor layers multiple passive sources into one enriched result, so the same lookup returns far more context.

How to use Social Footprint OSINT

1. Open the Input tab.
2. Enter a single email or username in the query field.
3. (Optional) Adjust the timeout.
4. Click Start. Read the footprint in the Output tab.

Input

Field	Type	Required	Description
query	string	✅	An email address or a username to resolve.
timeout	integer		Max seconds for the multi-platform lookup (20–300).

Invalid input ends the run as SUCCEEDED with a notice row.

Output

One dataset row per confirmed account. Each platform where the identity is registered — plus a Gravatar or GitHub profile when found — is its own row:

{
  "query": "octocat",
  "queryType": "username",
  "platform": "GitHub",
  "category": "developer",
  "exists": true,
  "profileUrl": "https://github.com/octocat",
  "source": "socialscan",
  "scannedAt": "2026-06-30T00:00:00+00:00"
}

After the account rows, a summary row carries the full picture and is not charged:

{
  "query": "octocat", "queryType": "username", "noticeCode": "summary",
  "accountsFound": 3, "accountsDelivered": 3,
  "platformsRegistered": ["GitHub", "GitLab", "Reddit"],
  "platformsChecked": 8,
  "platformsUnchecked": [{ "platform": "Instagram", "reason": "rate limited" }],
  "platformDetails": [
    { "platform": "GitLab", "category": "developer", "registered": true, "link": "https://gitlab.com/octocat" }
  ],
  "githubProfile": { "exists": true, "name": "The Octocat", "followers": 12000, "profileUrl": "https://github.com/octocat" },
  "exposureScore": 56,
  "message": "3 account(s) found across 8 platform(s) checked; exposure 56/100."
}

Rows carrying a noticeCode (summary, invalid-query, free-plan-cap, charge-limit-reached) are messages, not results, and are never charged. You can download the dataset in JSON, HTML, CSV, or Excel.

Data table

Field	Description
query / queryType	The seed and whether it was an email or username
platform / category	The platform an account was found on, and its category
exists / profileUrl	Confirmation and the public profile link when available
source	Where the confirmation came from (socialscan, gravatar, github-api)
accountsFound (summary)	Total confirmed accounts for the query
platformsChecked / platformsUnchecked (summary)	What was checked, and what could not be reached
exposureScore (summary)	0–100 digital-exposure indicator

Pricing

This Actor uses pay-per-event pricing:

• run-started — $0.005, charged once per query when the multi-platform scan runs.
• account-found — $0.02 for each confirmed account (a registered platform, a Gravatar, or a GitHub profile) written to the dataset.

Summary and notice rows are never charged. Free-plan runs return up to 25 accounts per query, then stop cleanly with a free-plan-cap notice. An invalid query performs no scan and is not charged.

Tips

• Some platforms rate-limit shared cloud IPs; if a run returns few signals, try again shortly.
• Emails get Gravatar enrichment; usernames get GitHub-profile enrichment — pick the seed that matches your goal.

FAQ, disclaimers, and support

Is this legal? The Actor performs only passive, public lookups and never contacts or notifies the target. Use it solely for accounts you own or are authorized to investigate, and comply with all applicable laws and platform terms. It is not affiliated with or endorsed by socialscan or any listed platform.

Privacy & data responsibility. You are the data controller for every lookup you run with this Actor; ntriqpro is a data processor acting solely on your instructions. You are responsible for having a lawful basis and a legitimate, purpose-limited reason for each search, and for complying with GDPR, PIPA, CCPA, and other applicable privacy laws. We do not store your results — output is written only to your own run's dataset and is never retained on our side. Use this Actor only for lawful purposes and only on emails or usernames you own or are authorized to investigate.

Found a bug or want a platform added? Open an issue on the Issues tab.

Works well with

• user-scanner-osint — Sweep the same username across 200+ platforms instead of a handful.
• phoneinfoga-osint — Run the same identity check against a phone number — carrier, footprint and linked profiles.

Every run of this Actor also returns these suggestions in the nextSteps field of its summary row.