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Maigret scans usernames across 3,000 sites
Maigret is an open-source Python OSINT tool that builds a dossier from a single username by checking thousands of sites and extracting profile details from matched accounts. It leans hard into breadth, recursive pivots, and report generation rather than quick, low-noise lookups.
// ANALYSIS
The appeal here is scale: Maigret is less a username checker than a dossier engine for investigators who want maximum surface area and can tolerate slower, noisier runs.
- –It stands out from smaller tools by covering 3,000+ sites and pulling profile metadata, not just yes/no hits.
- –Recursive pivots are the real unlock: discovered handles and IDs become new search seeds, which can expose linked identities across platforms.
- –The tradeoff is operational cost, especially runtime and false positives, so it fits deeper investigations better than rapid triage.
- –The project’s MIT license and pip-based install make it easy to adopt in scripts, labs, and other OSINT workflows.
- –The GitHub momentum is strong, but this is still fundamentally a specialist OSINT tool, not a broad developer platform.
// TAGS
maigretsearchcliopen-sourceautomation
DISCOVERED
45d ago
2026-04-30
PUBLISHED
45d ago
2026-04-30
RELEVANCE
5/ 10