Maigret
Maigret collects 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.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Online
- Telegram
Features
Properties
- Lightweight
Features
- No registration required
- Ad-free
- OSINT
Tags
- identification
- username-search
- namechecker
- recursive-search
- investigation
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Maigret information
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Open Source (MIT) and Free product.Written in
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What is Maigret?
Maigret collects 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 3000 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).
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
Maigret can detect common errors such as censorship stub pages, CloudFlare captcha pages, and others. If you get more them 3% errors of a certain type in a session, you’ve got a warning message in the CLI output with recommendations to improve performance and avoid problems.
Comments and Reviews
Not a ton of websites, but lightweight and very easy to use.