Skip to main content

Check username availability across multiple popular platforms

Project description

User Scanner

1000136215


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.
  • ✅ 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
  • ✅ Command-line interface ready: works directly after pip install
  • ✅ Can be used as username OSINT tool.
  • ✅ 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
user-scanner -u <username> -p <suffix> 

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

Screenshot:

  • Note*: New modules are constantly getting added so this might have only limited, outdated output: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

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.


Star History

Star History Chart

Project details


Release history Release notifications | RSS feed

Download files

Download the file for your platform. If you're not sure which to choose, learn more about installing packages.

Source Distribution

user_scanner-1.0.8.1.tar.gz (17.2 kB view details)

Uploaded Source

Built Distribution

If you're not sure about the file name format, learn more about wheel file names.

user_scanner-1.0.8.1-py3-none-any.whl (36.5 kB view details)

Uploaded Python 3

File details

Details for the file user_scanner-1.0.8.1.tar.gz.

File metadata

  • Download URL: user_scanner-1.0.8.1.tar.gz
  • Upload date:
  • Size: 17.2 kB
  • Tags: Source
  • Uploaded using Trusted Publishing? No
  • Uploaded via: python-requests/2.31.0

File hashes

Hashes for user_scanner-1.0.8.1.tar.gz
Algorithm Hash digest
SHA256 778fa82dfde4f849b1516087d92e4d48ba6739e178811426bc356a94dc59b8b6
MD5 d848c429cc18d86de49c08a40d4d6612
BLAKE2b-256 d3796d2810da416ab5270abd2df3434e759119e6a09904ffce8c16eb0c1cac0f

See more details on using hashes here.

File details

Details for the file user_scanner-1.0.8.1-py3-none-any.whl.

File metadata

File hashes

Hashes for user_scanner-1.0.8.1-py3-none-any.whl
Algorithm Hash digest
SHA256 b471f2092be3545270468a726120aa546224faee207084a175ec3d25e95dccce
MD5 2805c1b1e2b6cf89f4f5dff0acc0626a
BLAKE2b-256 a741497bd50e949b85deebf19f86b362c238ca37fb0d20924f273ee7541b0019

See more details on using hashes here.

Supported by

AWS Cloud computing and Security Sponsor Datadog Monitoring Depot Continuous Integration Fastly CDN Google Download Analytics Pingdom Monitoring Sentry Error logging StatusPage Status page