Social Media & Username OSINT Tools
Tools for finding accounts by username, analyzing public social media activity, and mapping online identities across platforms. These are among the most privacy-sensitive OSINT tools — the subject is usually a person.
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32 tools
- SherlockChecks a username across many public social networks and online services.
- MaigretBuilds a structured username-based profile across thousands of public sites, with reporting and extensibility.
- GHunt🕵️♂️ Offensive Google framework.
- PhoneInfogaA maintained framework for researching public information and reputation signals associated with phone numbers.
- TwintAn advanced Twitter scraping & OSINT tool written in Python that doesn't use Twitter's API, allowing you to scrape a user's followers, following, Tweets and more while evading most API limitations.
- OsintgramOsintgram is a OSINT tool on Instagram. It offers an interactive shell to perform analysis on Instagram account of any users by its nickname
- BlackbirdAn OSINT tool to search for accounts by username and email in social networks.
- SnoopSnoop — инструмент разведки на основе открытых данных (OSINT world)
- User Scanner🕵️♂️ (2-in-1) Email & Username OSINT suite for deep data extraction just from a single Email/Username. Analyzes 400+ actively maintained scan vectors (170+ email / 230+ username) for security research, investigations, and digital footprinting.
- YesitsmeSimple OSINT script to find Instagram profiles by name and e-mail/phone
- Tookie OSINTTookie is a advanced OSINT information gathering tool that finds social media accounts based on inputs.
- WhatsMyNameCommunity-maintained dataset of 700+ websites for finding accounts by username — powers OSINT and digital footprint tools.
- NexfilOSINT tool for finding profiles by username
- YarkOSINT for YouTube made simple.
- Linkedin2usernameOSINT Tool: Generate username lists for companies on LinkedIn
- InstagramOSINTAn Instagram Open Source Intelligence Tool - Archive
- SearchPhonePhone number OSINT toolkit with multi-API search (Google, GitHub, Numverify, Reddit, DuckDuckGo), Hudson Rock infostealer intelligence, and automatic report generation.
- UserFinderOSINT tool for finding profiles by username
- Telepathy CommunityPublic release of Telepathy, an OSINT toolkit for investigating Telegram chats.
- MaryamMaryam: Open-source Intelligence(OSINT) Framework
- PhunterPhunter is an osint tool allowing you to find various information via a phone number 🔎📞
- Socid Extractor⛏️ The extraction engine behind Maigret: turn any profile URL into a structured OSINT record across 150+ sites
- Linkook🔍 An OSINT tool for discovering linked social accounts and associated emails across multiple platforms using a single username.
- OsintgraphAbout Osintgraph is an open-source tool that collects Instagram data, followers, and followees, storing them in Neo4j. It helps you easily map and analyze a target's social network, revealing interests, connections, and affiliations for effective OSINT.
- WhatsApp OSINTOSINT tool for WhatsApp that allows you to obtain profile pictures, verify Business accounts, check status and user information, analyze linked devices, review privacy settings, and access complete data using the RapidAPI WhatsApp OSINT API. Supports 6 endpoints.
- SeekrA multi-purpose OSINT toolkit with a neat web-interface.
- TosintTosint is a Telegram OSINT tool that extracts actionable intelligence from bot tokens and chat IDs for security investigations.
- H4X ToolsA modular, terminal-based toolkit for OSINT, reconnaissance, and scraping - built in Python, runs on Linux and Windows.
- PhoneNumber OSINTAn OSINT tool for gathering information about phone numbers
- SlashThe Slash OSINT Tool
- gOSINTOSINT Swiss Army Knife
- OSINT ScraperSocial Recon
Using social & identity tools responsibly
- A matching username on two sites is not proof that one person owns both.
- Stay within each platform's terms of service and never create deceptive accounts.
- Have a clear, lawful purpose before researching a private individual.
Guides
- Username Search: How to Find Accounts Across Sites (and Avoid False Matches) How username enumeration tools like Sherlock, Maigret, and WhatsMyName work, how to run them, and how to avoid wrongly linking accounts to a person.