Maigret

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 required. AI profiling (demo).

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Contents

• In one minute
• Main features
• Demo
• Installation
• Usage
• Contributing
• Commercial Use
• About

In one minute

Ensure you have Python 3.10 or higher.

pip install maigret
maigret YOUR_USERNAME

No install? Try the community Telegram bot or a Cloud Shell.

Want a web UI? See how to launch it.

See also: Quick start.

Main features

• Supports 3,000+ sites (see full list). A default run checks the 500 highest-ranked sites by traffic; pass -a to scan everything, or --tags to narrow by category/country.
• Embeddable in Python projects — import maigret and run searches programmatically (see library usage).
• Extracts all available information about the account owner from profile pages and site APIs, including links to other accounts.
• Performs recursive search using discovered usernames and other IDs.
• Allows filtering by tags (site categories, countries).
• Detects and partially bypasses blocks, censorship, and CAPTCHA.
• Fetches an auto-updated site database from GitHub each run (once per 24 hours), and falls back to the built-in database if offline.
• Works with Tor and I2P websites; able to check domains.
• Ships with a web interface for browsing results as a graph and downloading reports in every format from a single page.
• Optional AI analysis mode (--ai) that turns raw findings into a short investigation summary using an OpenAI-compatible API.

For the complete feature list, see the features documentation.

Used by

Professional OSINT and social-media analysis tools built on Maigret:

Demo

Video

Reports

PDF report, HTML report

Full console output

Installation

Already ran the In one minute steps? You're set. Below are alternative methods.

Don't want to install anything? Use the community Telegram bot.

Windows

Download maigret_standalone.exe from Releases. You can launch it two ways:

• Double-click it — Maigret will ask for a username, run a default search, and wait at the end so the report links stay visible.
• Run it from a terminal — open Command Prompt (press Win+R, type cmd, hit Enter) or PowerShell to pass extra options:

cd %USERPROFILE%\Downloads
maigret_standalone.exe USERNAME
maigret_standalone.exe USERNAME --html       :: also save an HTML report
maigret_standalone.exe --help                :: list all options

Video guide: https://youtu.be/qIgwTZOmMmM.

Cloud Shells

Run Maigret in the browser via cloud shells or Jupyter notebooks:

<a href="https://console.cloud.google.com/cloudshell/open?git_repo=https://github.com/soxoj/maigret&t