Maigret - easy-to-use and powerful OSINT tool for collecting a dossier on a person by username only

guest · Oct 3, 2022

Maigret collect a dossier on a person by username only, checking for accounts on a huge number of sites and gathering all the available information from web pages. No API keys required. Maigret is an easy-to-use and powerful fork of Sherlock.

Currently supported more than 2500 sites (full list), search is launched against 500 popular sites in descending order of popularity by default. Also supported checking of Tor sites, I2P sites, and domains (via DNS resolving).
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Main features

Profile pages parsing, extraction of personal info, links to other profiles, etc.

Recursive search by new usernames and other ids found

Search by tags (site categories, countries)

Censorship and captcha detection

Requests retries

See full description of Maigret features in the documentation.
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Installation

Maigret can be installed using pip, Docker, or simply can be launched from the cloned repo.
Standalone EXE-binaries for Windows are located in Releases section of GitHub repository.

Also you can run Maigret using cloud shells and Jupyter notebooks (see buttons below).
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Maigret 0.4.4 (September 3, 2022)
Website (GitHub)
Documentation
Download (Releases)
https://github.com/soxoj/maigret/releases/download/v0.4.4/maigret_standalone_win32.zip

guest · Oct 3, 2022

Maigret: create user dossiers based on username searches on thousands of sites
By Martin Brinkmann - October 3, 2022

Maigret is an open source cross-platform tool to create profiles on users using just username searches. The program is free to use and does not require any APIs or configuration.

The command line tool checks if specified usernames exist on online platforms and creates reports based on the findings. The sites that Maigret checks are some of the world's most popular sites; the list includes social media sites, shopping sites, streaming sites, torrent sites, I2P sites and many other sites.
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The application's main features include the ability to run checks for multiple usernames in one go, run recursive searches, and limit searches by tags or geographical locations.

Maigret runs its checks on 500 popular sites by default, but users may run a search across all 2500 sites that it supports. Usage is simple and straightforward.
Results depend to a large degree on the specified username or usernames. There is a good chance of false positives, especially for short or common usernames. Other Internet users may have picked usernames on some of these sites.
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Closing Words
Maigret is a powerful tool to create a profile based on usernames. Like many comparable tools, it has the potential for abuse and usefulness. Internet users could use it to find out if their username is taken on sites that they want to sign-up for, or run checks, to find out where their email address is registered.
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