# soxoj/maigret

🕵️‍♂️ Collect a dossier on a person by username from 3000+ sites

Repository: https://github.com/soxoj/maigret
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/maigret
Homepage: https://maigret.app
Language: Python
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: osint, social-network, identification, socmint, sherlock, investigation, python, python3, open-source, cybersecurity, scraping, osint-python, redteam, osint-framework, cli, reconnaissance, infosec, pentesting, information-gathering, username
Last push: 2026-08-26T17:17:27+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 99/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 99, release rhythm 99, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 2258, "days_push": 7, "days_rel": 8, "gap_med": 17.5, "n_releases_24m": 9}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 37084, forks 2880 (observed 2026-08-28T04:12:01.323116+00:00)

## What it is
Maigret is a Python CLI OSINT tool that builds a dossier on a person from just a username, checking thousands of sites for accounts and extracting available information from the found pages. It requires no API keys and also offers a Telegram bot for checking one's own digital footprint.

## Use cases
- find accounts linked to a username across social networks
- osint reconnaissance on a target username
- check if a username is taken on hundreds of sites
- gather public info about a person for an investigation
- audit my own digital footprint for privacy
- red team information gathering on a handle

## When to choose
- you need username-based account discovery across thousands of sites without API keys
- you want a scriptable CLI for OSINT investigations
- you need a maintained, actively updated alternative to Sherlock

## When to avoid
- you need email, phone, or name-based person search rather than username lookup
- you need a GUI-based investigation platform
- your use case requires guaranteed legal compliance review for targeted profiling

## Facets
- artifact type: cli-tool
- maturity: active
- function: osint, web-scraping, cli, search-engine
- domain: osint, security, social-media, developer-tools
- platform: python, cli, cross-platform, windows
- tags: username-search, reconnaissance, socmint, information-gathering, account-discovery, pentesting, sherlock-fork, no-api-keys, command-line, linux, macos

## Member repositories
- soxoj/maigret (main) score 99

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:12:01.323116+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T16:25:40.886568+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/soxoj/maigret (fetched 2026-08-28T04:12:01.323116+00:00, sha 39fd24ffc34a)
  - homepage: https://maigret.app (fetched 2026-08-29T07:47:22.851271+00:00, sha 4554ebecda7d)
  - registry_pypi: https://pypi.org/pypi/maigret/json (fetched 2026-08-29T07:47:22.860124+00:00, sha e615c3288320)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.