How do I use Maigret's --parse flag to expand investigations?

Invoke maigret --parse to scrape identifiers from the page, review extracted usernames and ids, and optionally enable --recursive to queue follow-up searches automatically.

Use Maigret Parse Mode for Seed Profiles

Parse mode bootstraps searches from a single known profile.

CLI example

maigret --parse https://twitter.com/exampleuser --recursive --tags us

Sample output excerpt:

[*] Extracting information from https://twitter.com/exampleuser
┣╸username: exampleuser
┣╸name: Example Person
┣╸links: https://github.com/example, https://instagram.com/example

With --recursive, Maigret enqueues discovered usernames for subsequent scans.

When to use

You have a landing page with outbound links.
You want to pivot from real names or IDs to usernames (e.g., Steam, VK).
You need a quick dossier without guessing multiple handles.

Tips

Combine with --site to focus follow-up searches on high-value services first.
Add --json to capture extracted metadata in machine-readable form.
Use --timeout 60 for content-heavy pages.

Diagram

  flowchart TD
    A[Known profile URL] --> B[maigret --parse]
    B --> C[Extracted usernames]
    C --> D[maigret search queue]
    D --> E[Reports]

Sanitising data

Run jq '.extracted_ids' report.json to review sensitive identifiers before sharing output externally.

Parse mode is ideal when a single profile is the strongest starting point.