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).

Output

{
  "query": "octocat",
  "queryType": "username",
  "accountsFound": 3,
  "platformsRegistered": ["GitHub", "GitLab", "Reddit"],
  "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,
  "scannedAt": "2026-06-30T00:00:00+00:00"
}

You can download the dataset in various formats such as JSON, HTML, CSV, or Excel.

Data table

Field	Description
query / queryType	The seed and whether it was an email or username
accountsFound	Number of platforms where the identity is registered
platformsRegistered	List of platforms where an account exists
platformDetails	Per-platform result with category and profile link
gravatar / githubProfile	Enrichment from public profile APIs
exposureScore	0–100 digital-exposure indicator

Pricing

This Actor uses pay-per-event pricing: you are charged once per query ($0.03) only when at least one public signal (a registered platform, a Gravatar, or a GitHub profile) is resolved. Lookups that return nothing are 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.

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