Maigret - OSINT Username Investigation

Maigret 🕵️

The Commissioner Jules Maigret is a fictional French police detective, created by Georges Simenon. His investigation method is based on understanding the personality of different people and their interactions.

👉👉👉 Online Telegram Bot

About

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 are required. Maigret is an easy-to-use and powerful fork of Sherlock.

Currently supports more than 3000 sites (full list), search is launched against 500 popular sites in descending order of popularity by default. Also supported checking Tor sites, I2P sites, and domains (via DNS resolving).

🚀 Main Features

  graph TD
    A[Username Input] --> B[Maigret Scanner]
    B --> C[Profile Parsing]
    B --> D[Recursive Search]
    B --> E[Tag Filtering]
    B --> F[Censorship Detection]

    C --> G[Personal Info]
    C --> H[Social Links]
    C --> I[Other Profiles]

    D --> J[New Usernames]
    D --> K[Related IDs]

    E --> L[Photo Sites]
    E --> M[Dating Sites]
    E --> N[Country-specific]

    G --> O[HTML Report]
    H --> O
    I --> P[PDF Report]
    J --> Q[XMind Map]

Profile page parsing - Extraction of personal info, links to other profiles, etc.
Recursive search - Search by new usernames and other IDs found
Search by tags - Site categories, countries (photo, dating, us, etc.)
Censorship and captcha detection - Automatic handling of blocks
Requests retries - Robust error handling

📦 Installation

Windows

Standalone EXE-binaries for Windows are located in Releases section.

Cloud Shells

Local Installation

# Install from PyPI (Python 3.11 recommended)
pip3 install maigret

# Usage
maigret username

Docker

# Official image
docker pull soxoj/maigret

# Usage with volume mount
docker run -v /mydir:/app/reports soxoj/maigret:latest username --html

🔍 Usage Examples

# Basic search
maigret johndoe

# Generate HTML report
maigret johndoe --html

# Generate PDF report
maigret johndoe --pdf

# Search with tags (photo & dating sites)
maigret johndoe --tags photo,dating

# Search US sites only
maigret johndoe --tags us

# Search multiple usernames on all sites
maigret user1 user2 user3 -a

🌐 Web Interface

Run Maigret with a web interface for interactive results:

# Start web interface
maigret --web 5000

# Open http://127.0.0.1:5000 in browser

The web interface provides:

Interactive search form
Real-time results graph
Downloadable reports (HTML, PDF, XMind)
Account details table

📊 Powered By Maigret

Professional tools that use Maigret:

🎯 SOWEL Classification

This tool uses these OSINT techniques:

SOTL-2.2 - Search For Accounts On Other Platforms
SOTL-6.1 - Check Logins Reuse To Find Another Account
SOTL-6.2 - Check Nicknames Reuse To Find Another Account

⚖️ Disclaimer

This tool is intended for educational and lawful purposes only. The developers do not endorse or encourage any illegal activities or misuse of this tool.

Regulations regarding personal data collection vary by country and region (GDPR, CCPA, etc.). It is your responsibility to ensure compliance with applicable laws.

📚 Resources

📈 Example Results

Check out these sample reports: