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User Scanner

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

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.

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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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.)
├── donation/   # Donation taking sites (buymeacoffe.com, similar...)

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.

See CONTRIBUTING.md for examples.

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Dependencies:

• httpx
• colorama

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License

This project is licensed under the MIT License. See LICENSE for details.