Social Media Finder β Username Search & Profile Lookup
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from $1.84 / 1,000 social profiles
Social Media Finder β Username Search & Profile Lookup
Given a person's name, username, email, or phone β find their social-media profiles across 15+ platforms: LinkedIn, Twitter/X, Instagram, TikTok, GitHub, Reddit, YouTube, Facebook, Pinterest and more. Output: platform, profile URL, display name, match confidence.
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Social Links Search β Find Social Media Profiles by Name, Username, Email or Phone
Cross-platform social profile discovery. Enter a person's name, username, email, or phone number and get back confirmed profile links across 15+ major platforms β LinkedIn, Twitter/X, Instagram, TikTok, GitHub, Reddit, YouTube, Facebook, Pinterest, Telegram, Medium, Substack, Quora, Twitch, Snapchat.
Use cases
- OSINT / identity verification β confirm a person's online presence from a single identity signal
- Recruiting β from a candidate's name find their GitHub, LinkedIn, and social profiles in one run
- Fraud detection β cross-check an email or username across platforms to detect fake/synthetic identities
- Sales enrichment β given a prospect's name, discover their LinkedIn and social touch-points
- Brand / reputation monitoring β find all accounts associated with a real person or handle
How it works
Two-layer approach, no external API key required:
- Direct URL probe β for username-shaped queries, builds canonical profile URLs per platform (
twitter.com/<handle>,github.com/<handle>, etc.) and probes them via HTTPS. A valid 200 response on a real profile pattern = confirmed hit (high confidence). - DuckDuckGo SERP fallback β for name / email / phone queries (and uncovered platforms), runs a site-scoped DuckDuckGo search (
"Elon Musk" site:linkedin.com OR site:twitter.com) and validates URLs from the results. No API key, works anonymously.
Sample output
[{"platform":"Twitter / X","platform_id":"twitter","profile_url":"https://x.com/elonmusk","display_name":"Elon Musk","username":"elonmusk","match_confidence":"high","source":"direct_probe","parse_confidence":"probe_200","query":"elonmusk"},{"platform":"GitHub","platform_id":"github","profile_url":"https://github.com/elonmusk","display_name":"Elon Musk","username":"elonmusk","match_confidence":"high","source":"direct_probe","parse_confidence":"probe_200","query":"elonmusk"}]
Input fields
| Field | Type | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
query | string | β | Name, username (with or without @), email, or phone to search |
platforms | list | all (15+) | Restrict to specific platforms. Options: twitter, linkedin, instagram, tiktok, github, reddit, youtube, facebook, pinterest, telegram, medium, substack, quora, twitch, snapchat |
maxResults | integer | 10 | Max profiles to return (1β50) |
proxyConfiguration | proxy | RESIDENTIAL | Apify proxy settings. RESIDENTIAL recommended |
useSerpFallback | boolean | true | Also run DuckDuckGo SERP for higher recall |
Supported platforms
LinkedIn Β· Twitter/X Β· Instagram Β· TikTok Β· GitHub Β· Reddit Β· YouTube Β· Facebook Β· Pinterest Β· Telegram Β· Medium Β· Substack Β· Quora Β· Twitch Β· Snapchat
π° Pricing & how we compare
Pay-per-result (PPE): $1.90 / 1K results. You are billed per profile-found actually returned β plus the tiny
apify-actor-start fee Apify waives for short runs. No subscription, no API key, no proxy fee on top.
Our edge: Name OR username OR email OR phone β confirmed profiles Β· direct 200-probe + DuckDuckGo SERP fallback Β· match_confidence Β· no API key.
Pricing examples (pay only for what you get, minus Apify's 20%):
| Volume | Cost |
|---|---|
| 100 results | $0.19 |
| 1,000 results | $1.90 |
| 10,000 results | $19.00 |
How rivals price the same job (live Apify Store, checked 2026-06-09)
| Actor | Their price | What they lack vs us |
|---|---|---|
tri_angle/social-media-finder | $0.002 / result | strong incumbent (6.7K users, 4.79β ) β by-name across 13 platforms |
automation-lab/username-checker | $0.005 / username | username-only, 460+ platforms |
onescales/social-media-profile-finder-pro | FREE | Sherlock-based, username-only |
Prices above are competitors' live Store prices at the time of writing; ours is set to sit just below the strongest comparable while returning richer, quality-scored data.
π€ Use with AI agents (MCP)
This actor is agent-ready (category MCP_SERVERS). Point any MCP client (Claude Desktop, Cursor, n8n AI, LangGraph) at it:
{"mcpServers":{"apify":{"url":"https://mcp.apify.com/?actors=bovi/social-links-search","headers":{"Authorization":"Bearer <YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN>"}}}}
