OSINT namecheckers list

A list of tools to search accounts by username with pros and cons.

Scripts

Sherlock

• hunts down social media accounts by username across around 300 social networks
• has web-cli deployments 👍
• batch search 👍
• tor & proxy support 👍
• alexa top ranking 👍
• adding custom sites & rules
• csv reports
• false positives

Maigret

• sherlock fork, all its pros and cons so
• 2300 sites 👍
• profile pages parsing and extracting personal info, links to other profiles, etc. 👍
• recursive search by new usernames found 👍
• searching by countries and categories by tags 👍
• very few false positives 👍
• censorship and captcha detection

social-analyzer

• 1000+ sites 👍
• web interface 👍
• multilayers detections (OCR, normal, advanced & special) 👍
• metadata extraction

nexfil

• 350 sites
• fast, lookup can complete under 20 seconds

WhatsMyName

• username enumeration on around 250 various websites
• adding custom sites & rules

Snoop

• sherlock fork, all its pros and cons so
• 145 sites in demo version, around 2200+ sites in full paid version
• country ranking & filtering 👍
• html and csv reports

Userrecon

• finds usernames across over 75 social networks
• original repository is unavailable

NicknameFinder

• 45 sites in database

Gideon

• 44 sites in database

Arina-OSINT

• 42 sites in database

netizenship

• 38 sites in database

Search4

• 35 sites in database
• small and fast

Socialscan

• checks for email and username usage on 12 platforms
• uses api, not a direct userpage link 👍

sherlock-go

• faster and minimal implementation of sherlock written in Go
• no longer maintained

Investigo

• can take screenshots with headless chromium 👍
• uses sherlock database

recon-ng

• have a profiler module using WhatsMyName database

SocialPath

• track users across 10 popular social media platforms
• extract details info from 4 platforms
• web interface

APIs

Social Scanner

• 996 social networks with links to each profile in JSON
• implementation of social-analyzer

Sites

Websites to search accounts from your browser. Usually there are advertising and logging of requests.

WhatsMyName

• username enumeration on around 250 various websites
• web-gui for searching for WhatsMyName data
• rich filtering by category

Usersearch

• 120 popular websites, 100+ generic forums , 6 dating sites and crypto forums

analyzeid username checker

• more than 80 social sites
• gather information on the taken username and get a summary of who the person is 👍

iDCrawl

• 12 sites

suIP.biz

• yet another sherlock online

Usersherlock

website is down

Branding tools

The main goal of branding tools is to search for the availability of usernames on social platforms and sites, not to search for users. These tools are used by marketers to brand securing and promotion. One of the features of such tools is a domain name search similar to a search by username.

Knowem (updated Checkusernames)

• searches over 550 popular social networks, over 150 domain names
• 15 categories of social networks
• trademarks checks

Namecheckup

• checks social media username availability over 270+ social networks and sites and check 45 TLDs

InstantUsername

• checks username availability for more than 100 social media sites
• open source 👍

Checkusernames

• checks the use of your brand or username on 160 Social Networks

CHECKUSER.org

• checks popular domains and 52 social media sites

Namechk

• finds an available username over 96 sites and 36 domain names

Namecheckr

• checks domain & social username availability across 38 networks and 17 TLDs

Checkerapi

• checks 6 services for username availability
• open source 👍

Toolkits

One-plus OSINT Toolkit

Aware-online

Lullar

Useful links

• OSINT Handbook September 2020 (see "Username Check")
• Nixintel's OSINT Resource List (see "Usernames & People Searches"
• What’s wrong with namecheckers?