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User Scanner

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Scan a username across multiple social, developer, and creator platforms to see if it’s available.
Perfect for finding a unique username across GitHub, Twitter, Reddit, Instagram, and more, all in one command.

Github: https://github.com/kaifcodec/user-scanner

Features

• ✅ Check usernames across social networks, developer platforms, and creator communities.
• ✅ Clear Available / Taken / Error output for each platform.
• ✅ Fully modular: add new platform modules easily.
• ✅ Command-line interface ready: works directly after pip install.
• ✅ Can be used as username OSINT tool.
• ✅ Very low and lightweight dependencies, can be run on any machine.

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Installation

pip install user-scanner

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Usage

Scan a username across all platforms:

user-scanner -u <username>

Optionally, scan a specific category or single module:

user-scanner -u <username> -c dev
user-scanner -l # Lists all available modules
user-scanner -u <username> -m github

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Example Output:

• Note*: New modules are constantly getting added so this might have only limited, outdated output:

 Checking username: johndoe078

== DEV SITES ==
  [✔] Codeberg: Available
  [✔] Cratesio: Available
  [✔] Dockerhub: Available
  [✘] Github: Taken
  [✔] Gitlab: Available
  [✔] Launchpad: Available
  [✔] Npmjs: Available
  [✔] Replit: Available

== SOCIAL SITES ==
  [✔] Bluesky: Available
  [✔] Discord: Available
  [✘] Instagram: Taken
  [✔] Mastodon: Available
  [✔] Pinterest: Available
  [✘] Reddit: Taken
  [✔] Snapchat: Available
  [✔] Telegram: Available 
  [✘] Threads: Taken
  [✔] X (Twitter): Available
  [✔] Youtube: Available

== CREATOR SITES ==
  [✔] Devto: Available
  [✔] Hashnode: Available
  [✔] Kaggle: Available
  [✔] Medium: Available
  [✔] Patreon: Available

== COMMUNITY SITES ==
  [✔] Coderlegion: Available

== GAMING SITES ==
  [✔] Chess_com: Available
  [✔] Osu: Available
  [✔] Roblox: Available
  ...
  ...
  ...

Contributing:

Modules are organized by category:

user_scanner/
├── dev/        # Developer platforms (GitHub, GitLab, etc.)
├── social/     # Social platforms (Twitter/X, Reddit, Instagram, etc.)
├── creator/    # Creator platforms (Hashnode, Dev.to, Medium, etc.)
├── community/  # Community platforms (forums, niche sites)
├── gaming/     # Gaming sites (chess.com, roblox, monkeytype etc.)

Module guidelines:

• Each module must define a validate_<site>() function that takes a username and returns:
  • 1 → Available
  • 0 → Taken
  • 2 → Error / Could not check
• Use httpx for requests, colorama for colored output.

• Optional: modules can define a CLI parser if they support custom arguments.

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Dependencies:

• httpx
• colorama

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⚠️ community/ and gaming/ are small, looking for contributions