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Check username availability across multiple popular platforms

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User Scanner

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Scan a username across multiple social, developer, and creator platforms to see if it’s available.
Perfect for finding a unique username across GitHub, Twitter, Reddit, Instagram, and more, all in one command.

Features

  • ✅ Check usernames across social networks, developer platforms, and creator communities
  • ✅ Can be used as a username OSINT tool
  • ✅ Smart auto-update system, Detects new releases on PyPI and interactively prompts the user to upgrade.
  • ✅ Clear Available / Taken / Error output for each platform
  • ✅ Robust error handling: It prints the exact reason (e.g. Cannot use underscores, hyphens at the start/end)
  • ✅ Fully modular: add new platform modules easily
  • ✅ Wildcard-based username permutations for automatic variation generation using provided suffix
  • ✅ Selection of results format (e.g. json, csv, console (default))
  • ✅ Get the scanning results in preferred format (json/csv) in specified output file (suitable for power users)
  • ✅ Command-line interface ready: works directly after pip install
  • ✅ Very low and lightweight dependencies, can be run on any machine

Installation

pip install user-scanner

Usage

Scan a username across all platforms:

user-scanner -u <username>

Optionally, scan a specific category or single module:

user-scanner -u <username> -c dev
user-scanner -l # Lists all available modules
user-scanner -u <username> -m github

Also, the output file and format can be specified:

user-scanner -u <username> -f console #Default format
user-scanner -u <username> -f csv
user-scanner -u <username> -f json
user-scanner -u <username> -f <format> -o <output-file>

Generate multiple username variations by appending a suffix:

user-scanner -u <username> -p <suffix>

Optionally, scan a specific category or single module with limit:

user-scanner -u <username> -p <suffix> -c dev
user-scanner -u <username> -p <suffix> -m github
user-scanner -u <username> -p <suffix> -s <number> # limit generation of usernames
user-scanner -u <username> -p <suffix> -d <seconds> # delay to avoid rate-limits (can be 0s-1s)

Update

Update the tool to the latest PyPI version:

user-scanner -U

Screenshot:

  • Note*: New modules are constantly getting added so this might have only limited, outdated output:
1000140392
1000140393
1000141265

Contributing:

Modules are organized by category:

user_scanner/
├── dev/        # Developer platforms (GitHub, GitLab, etc.)
├── social/     # Social platforms (Twitter/X, Reddit, Instagram, etc.)
├── creator/    # Creator platforms (Hashnode, Dev.to, Medium, etc.)
├── community/  # Community platforms (forums, niche sites)
├── gaming/     # Gaming sites (chess.com, roblox, monkeytype etc.)
├── donation/   # Donation taking sites (buymeacoffe.com, similar...)

Module guidelines: This project contains small "validator" modules that check whether a username exists on a given platform. Each validator is a single function that returns a Result object (see core/orchestrator.py).

Result semantics:

  • Result.available() → available
  • Result.taken() → taken
  • Result.error(message: Optional[str]) → error, blocked, unknown, or request failure (include short diagnostic message when helpful)

Follow this document when adding or updating validators.

See CONTRIBUTING.md for examples.


Dependencies:


License

This project is licensed under the MIT License. See LICENSE for details.


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