Maigret OSINT: Username Tracing Tool – Usernames on the Internet

Maigret is an OSINT tool that traces the information of any account on the Internet. This tool helps to collect profiles about a person by username only, checking accounts on a large number of websites. Maigret can be thought of as another version of sherlock with exciting features under development. Don’t forget to regularly update the source code from this repo. Maigret is currently supported over 2000 sites (full list), by default the search engine is based on 500 websites descending by popularity.

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

Main features of Maigret

• Tracing information of username – account name
• Parsing profile pages, extracting personal information, linking to other profiles, etc.
• Recursive search by newly found username
• Tag search (site category, country)
• Censorship and user captcha detection
• Very little fake information

Setting

Using Maigret on Kali Linux

Maigret can be installed in a variety of ways to find username information on the Internet. But in this article, I will use the most popular way to clone repo. Note, here I use Kali Linux.

First you need clone repo Maigret from Github. Open terminal and enter the command below:

git clone https://github.com/soxoj/maigret

Next, access the repo you just downloaded:

cd maigret

Finally, you need to install the python libraries to run Maigret:

pip3 install -r requirements.txt

If you have an error in this step, you must not have installed pip3. Run this command to install pip3:

sudo apt-get install python3-pip

You access the Maigret directory and enter the following command to run Maigret:

./maigret.py user

Replace user with the username you want to check.

Using Maigret on Windows

With Windows, you install Python 3.x(Mind Add Path at the first setting screen)) then type the following commands:

cd [đường dẫn thư mục maigret đã giải nén] //example: cd C:\Maigret

pip install -r requirements.txt

python maigret.py user

Feature

Generate HTML and PDF reports

If you want to export search results to HTML and PDF reports, you can use the following command:

./maigret.py user --html --pdf

Sample report Maigret created

Search sites marked with the account’s photo & dating tag

maigret user --tags photo,dating

Search three usernames on all available sites

maigret user1 user2 user3 -a

Run command maigret --help for more what the arguments do. Options are also documented in the Maigret Wiki.

All commands of Maigret

These are all Maigret commands used to retrieve information of any account on the Internet.

./maigret --help

┌──(bullseye㉿....)-[~/Tools/maigret]
└─$ ./maigret.py --help                                    
usage: maigret.py [-h] [--version] [--info] [--verbose] [-d] [--site SITE_NAME]
                  [--proxy PROXY_URL] [--db DB_FILE] [--cookies-jar-file COOKIE_FILE]
                  [--timeout TIMEOUT] [-n CONNECTIONS] [-a] [--top-sites TOP_SITES]
                  [--print-not-found] [--print-errors] [--submit EXISTING_USER_URL]
                  [--no-color] [--no-progressbar] [--browse] [--no-recursion]
                  [--no-extracting] [--self-check] [--stats] [--use-disabled-sites]
                  [--parse PARSE_URL] [--id-type ID_TYPE] [--ignore-ids IGNORED_IDS]
                  [--tags TAGS] [--folderoutput FOLDEROUTPUT] [-T] [-C] [-H] [-X] [-P]
                  [-J REPORT_TYPE]
                  USERNAMES [USERNAMES ...]
Maigret v0.1.18
positional arguments:
  USERNAMES             One or more usernames to check with social networks.
optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  --version             Display version information and dependencies.
  --info, -vv           Display service information.
  --verbose, -v         Display extra information and metrics.
  -d, --debug, -vvv     Saving debugging information and sites responses in debug.txt.
  --site SITE_NAME      Limit analysis to just the listed sites (use several times to
                        specify more than one)
  --proxy PROXY_URL, -p PROXY_URL
                        Make requests over a proxy. e.g. socks5://127.0.0.1:1080
  --db DB_FILE          Load Maigret database from a JSON file or an online, valid,
                        JSON file.
  --cookies-jar-file COOKIE_FILE
                        File with cookies.
  --timeout TIMEOUT     Time (in seconds) to wait for response to requests.Default
                        timeout of 10.0s. A longer timeout will be more likely to get
                        results from slow sites.On the other hand, this may cause a
                        long delay to gather all results.
  -n CONNECTIONS, --max-connections CONNECTIONS
                        Allowed number of concurrent connections.
  -a, --all-sites       Use all sites for scan.
  --top-sites TOP_SITES
                        Count of sites for scan ranked by Alexa Top (default: 500).
  --print-not-found     Print sites where the username was not found.
  --print-errors        Print errors messages: connection, captcha, site country ban,
                        etc.
  --submit EXISTING_USER_URL
                        URL of existing profile in new site to submit.
  --no-color            Don't color terminal output
  --no-progressbar      Don't show progressbar.
  --browse, -b          Browse to all results on default bowser.
  --no-recursion        Disable recursive search by additional data extracted from
                        pages.
  --no-extracting       Disable parsing pages for additional data and other usernames.
  --self-check          Do self check for sites and database and disable non-working
                        ones.
  --stats               Show database statistics.
  --use-disabled-sites  Use disabled sites to search (may cause many false positives).
  --parse PARSE_URL     Parse page by URL and extract username and IDs to use for
                        search.
  --id-type ID_TYPE     Specify identifier(s) type (default: username).
  --ignore-ids IGNORED_IDS
                        Do not make search by the specified username or other ids.
  --tags TAGS           Specify tags of sites.
  --folderoutput FOLDEROUTPUT, -fo FOLDEROUTPUT
                        If using multiple usernames, the output of the results will be
                        saved to this folder.
  -T, --txt             Create a TXT report (one report per username).
  -C, --csv             Create a CSV report (one report per username).
  -H, --html            Create an HTML report file (general report on all usernames).
  -X, --xmind           Generate an XMind 8 mindmap report (one report per username).
  -P, --pdf             Generate a PDF report (general report on all usernames).
  -J REPORT_TYPE, --json REPORT_TYPE
                        Generate a JSON report of specific type: simple, ndjson (one
                        report per username).

Eg

Search for accounts with username anonyviet on top 500 websites from Maigret DB.

maigret anonyviet

Start looking for accounts with username anonyviet on all websites from Maigret DB.

maigret anonyviet-a

Start searching anonyviet and generate HTML and PDF reports.

maigret anonyviet -a -HP

Search for account with username anonyviet only on Facebook.

maigret anonyviet --site Facebook

Extract the information from the Instagram page by URL and start searching for the account whose username is found.

maigret - --parse https://www.instagram.com/machine42

Search for accounts with username anonyviet only on US, Japanese, Vietnamese websites.

maigret anonyviet --tags en,jp,vn

Look for accounts with username anonyviet only on software development related websites.

maigret anonyviet --tags coding

Search for accounts with username anonyviet only on uCoz websites (mainly CIS countries).

maigret anonyviet --tags ucoz

Video

In this video The author guides you how to install and use.. Besides, the author also guides you how to handle installation errors and how to install different pip3 scripts.