# Username OSINT Availability Checker (`dev00/username-osint`) Actor

Perform deep OSINT lookups to instantly check username availability across 30+ top social media, professional, and gaming platforms.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/dev00/username-osint.md
- **Developed by:** [dev00](https://apify.com/dev00) (community)
- **Categories:** Social media
- **Features:** Limited permissions
- **Stats:** 30 total users, 2 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $4.00 / 1,000 username footprint scans

This Actor is paid per event and usage. You are charged both the fixed price for specific events and for Apify platform usage.
Since this Actor supports Apify Store discounts, the price gets lower the higher subscription plan you have.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

An Actor is a serverless cloud program that runs on the Apify platform. It has two run modes.
In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.

Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

## How to integrate an Actor?

If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects.
You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.

Do not guess an integration path. Every one of them is in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md: the Apify MCP server, Agent Skills with the Apify CLI, the JavaScript and Python clients, the REST API, and the account-free path for an agent with no human to sign in. It also carries the rule on stating cost before the first paid run.

For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

Each client library has reference documentation the quickstart does not restate: [JavaScript/TypeScript](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md) (`npm install apify-client`) and [Python](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md) (`pip install apify-client`).

# README

## 🔍 Username OSINT Availability Checker

Perform deep OSINT lookups to instantly check username availability across **30+ top social media, professional, and gaming platforms**. Perfect for brand monitoring, digital forensics, marketing footprinting, and cybersecurity audits.

This edge-optimized tool routes lookups to an advanced streaming backend gateway, aggregates raw streaming chunks, filters reduntant metadata fields, records programmatic PPE charge units, and maps clean visual answers.

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### 🌟 Key Features

- **30+ Platforms Checked Simultaneously**: Instantly scans major sites including Twitter/X, Instagram, TikTok, GitHub, Reddit, and Twitch.
- **Intelligent Status Analysis**: Correctly distinguishes between taken profiles, unclaimed handles, and restricted keywords.
- **Blazing Fast Concurrent Execution**: Scans the entire web in milliseconds via concurrent edge routing.
- **Interactive Spreadsheet View**: Displays platform names, availability states, target profile links, and latencies side-by-side in a gorgeous table.
- **Pay-Per-Event PPE Monetization**: Highly cost-effective pricing model charging only for successful username audits.

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### 🛠️ How It Works

This Actor forwards username queries to an edge-deployed gateway, processes inputs, aggregates NDJSON streaming lines from high-performance endpoints, maps details to a key-value store, registers programmatic charge metrics, and outputs structured sheets.

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### 📥 Input Parameters

| Field | Type | Description | Prefill Example |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| **Target Username** | `string` | The username to investigate (e.g. `elonmusk`, `nike`). | `rapidapi` |

#### Input JSON Example

```json
{
  "username": "rapidapi"
}
```

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### 📤 Output Data Structure

Tabular datasets output clean rows mapping the account info:

#### Output JSON Example

```json
{
  "success": true,
  "username": "rapidapi",
  "platform": "Twitter / X",
  "category": "Social",
  "profile_url": "https://x.com/rapidapi",
  "available": false,
  "status_code": 200,
  "response_time_ms": 142
}
```

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### 💳 Monetization & Cost

This Actor utilizes the **Pay-Per-Event (PPE)** pricing model on the Apify Store:

- **Base Pricing**: Only **$4.00 per 1,000 successful scans** (`$0.004` per event).
- **Pay as You Go**: If a scan fails completely, no billing charges occur.

# Actor input Schema

## `username` (type: `string`):

Provide the username you want to scan across 30+ top platforms (e.g. 'rapidapi', 'elonmusk').

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "username": "rapidapi"
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

No description

## `keyValueStoreResult` (type: `string`):

No description

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "username": "rapidapi"
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("dev00/username-osint").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = { "username": "rapidapi" }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("dev00/username-osint").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "username": "rapidapi"
}' |
apify call dev00/username-osint --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,dev00/username-osint"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/c7t9KNWR8cJ8kuXUi/builds/RXqegjhFRTG5DLpWH/openapi.json