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- no longer maintained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 👍