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Maigret

Username search across thousands of sites to build a profile dossier

  • Security testing and OSINT
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What it is

Maigret takes a single username and checks for matching accounts on roughly 5,900 websites, then pulls whatever profile details it can find, including links to other accounts, and searches again on any new usernames or IDs it discovers. It needs no API keys, can filter sites by category or country, handles Tor and I2P sites, and writes reports as HTML, PDF, XMind and other formats. OSINT investigators and security researchers run it from the command line, through a bundled web interface that shows results as a graph, or as a Python library inside their own tools.

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39,244 GitHub stars.
39,244

Forks
3,097
Commits
1,698
Contributors
83
Language
Python
License
MIT
Last commit
Oct 10, 2026
On GitHub since
June 2020
First release
January 2021
Platforms
web, macOS, Windows, Linux, CLI, library
Self-hostable
No
Author
Soxoj
Tags
  • research-tools
  • osint
  • social-media
  • web-scraping

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