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tookie-osint

v4.2.2.3 open-source

Tookie is a advanced OSINT information gathering tool that finds social media accounts based on inputs. - Alfredredbird/tookie-osint

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Summary

tookie-osint is an open-source command-line tool that searches for a given username across multiple websites to find associated accounts, aimed at OSINT practitioners and investigators doing footprinting or social-media reconnaissance rather than broad attack-surface scanning. It runs interactively from the terminal, with a .deb package available for Kali and other Debian-based distributions, and a built-in webscraper (--harvest) that pulls live data from matched sites to build a fuller profile, including subscriber counts, post counts, handles, and bios. Started in 2023 and maintained by 26 contributors, it has seen 85 commits and 11 releases in the past year, with its last release 119 days ago, indicating active but not rapid-fire development.

Tookie is a advanced OSINT information gathering tool that finds social media accounts based on inputs. - Alfredredbird/tookie-osint

How tookie-osint helps

Which platforms has a person signed up on under a given username?

checks the username against its list of supported sites and reports back every one where a matching account exists

What does a person's profile actually look like on the sites where their username turns up?

pulls live data from each matched site and returns subscriber counts, post counts, handles, and bios so the reader gets a fuller picture without visiting each site by hand

Is a username actually tied to a real, active presence or just a registered handle?

the scraped counts and bio data reveal whether an account shows real activity versus an empty or abandoned signup

How much of an investigation's footprint can be pieced together from one username alone?

aggregates every matched site's scraped profile data into a single report covering username, handle, bio, and activity counts across all platforms found

all 3 features, with the evidence for each →

Languages

English, Arabic, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Finnish, French, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Persian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Turkish Documentation: English, Arabic, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Finnish, French, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Persian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish · Release notes: Turkish Turkish added in v4.1 (Apr 22, 2026)

Features

3 capabilities · 2 backed by code, an API document or a real run

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What tookie-osint offers you

  • Command-line interface1
All capabilities 3 capabilities
OSINT username search shipped Searches for usernames across multiple websites to discover associated user accounts. 2 releases · 2 other sources · first seen Apr 2026

Also counts toward: Command-line interface

release

  • Adds --tor flag to route scans through the Tor network for anonymised username lookups⁠︀︄︇︀︅︉︀︅︀︀︃︀︀︅︅︀︅︊︀︄︆︀︃︄⁠ v4.2.2.3 · Oct 2026 · source · release history
  • Adds Turkish language support for the CLI interface. v4.1 · Apr 2026 · source · release history

docs

  • OSINT cyber tool that searches for usernames across multiple websites to discover associated user accounts.

example

  • Run a username scan anonymously through Tor to avoid exposing your source IP to target sites python3 brib.py --tor <username> v4.2.2.3 · Oct 2026 · source
Headless browser control verified Drives a browser with configurable settings including window size, GPU usage, remote debugging, and automation-detection suppression to support browser-based operations. 4 other sources · first seen Apr 2026

command line

Web scraping verified Scrapes data from websites using a controlled browser session. 2 releases · 1 other source · first seen Jul 2024

release

  • Enables the built-in webscraper to actively scrape data from live websites. v4.1 · Apr 2026 · source · release history
  • New scan report feature generates full detailed profiles including username, subscriber count, video/post count, handle, and bio. v2.7(a) · Jul 2024 · source · release history

command line

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Score card

  1. Shipping velocity releases a month, last 12 months
  2. Documentation quality release-notes rubric, 0–100
  3. Breaking-change discipline how rarely a release breaks users, and notice given
  4. Maintenance risk quiet time against its own cadence, maintainers
  5. Innovation & surface new capabilities, API and MCP surface
  6. Community health
  7. Contributor trend distinct committers, this year against last
  8. Maintainer concentration bus factor now against a year ago
  9. Issue backlog trend issues closed per issue opened, 12 months
  10. Responsiveness median time to a maintainer’s first reply

Nine scores for tookie-osint, each built from the releases, notes and API history this site tracks — and, on Researcher and Business, where it stands among every measured tool in its category and how that has moved.

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How this is scored
  • Shipping velocity — releases a month over the last 12 months, on a log scale where 16 a month scores 100. Needs 3 releases in the window.
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  • Breaking-change discipline — the share of releases carrying a breaking change (none scores 100, half or more scores 0). Only projects that label breaking changes are measured: a clean record cannot be told from an unlabelled one.
  • Maintenance risk — quiet time measured against the tool's own release cadence (quiet longer than 90 days and three typical gaps scores 0), plus the number of active maintainers and whether contributors are growing, where known. Higher is lower risk.
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Release-note detail over time

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Releases

5 entries

  1. October 20261
  3. April 20263
  7. July 20241

    5 entries

    1. v4.2.2.3 Oct 26, 2026 · issue 122

      tookie-osint v4.2.2.3 adds --tor flag for Tor-routed username scans⁠︀︄︇︀︅︉︀︅︀︀︃︀︀︅︅︀︅︊︀︄︆︀︃︄⁠

      └──▷ GET THIS VERSION 
      $ git clone --branch v4.2.2.3 https://github.com/Alfredredbird/tookie-osint.git
# already have the repo? check out this version:
$ git checkout v4.2.2.3
      └──▷ TRY IT
      Run a username scan anonymously through Tor to avoid exposing your source IP to target sites
      $ python3 brib.py --tor <username>
    2. advisory CVE-2026-42866 Apr 24, 2026 · issue 128
      • CVE-2026-42866: Arbitrary file write via path traversal in -u username / -U userfile output filename (affects <= 4.1)⁠︀︄︇︀︅︉︀︅︀︀︃︀︀︅︅︀︅︊︀︄︆︀︃︄⁠
    3. v4.1 Apr 22, 2026 · release notes

      tookie-osint v4.1 adds live website scraping and Turkish language support

      └──▷ GET THIS VERSION 
      $ git clone --branch v4.1 https://github.com/Alfredredbird/tookie-osint.git
# already have the repo? check out this version:
$ git checkout v4.1
      • Enables the built-in webscraper to actively scrape data from live websites.
      • Adds Turkish language support for the CLI interface.

      2 details in Everything

    4. v4 Apr 9, 2026 · release notes

      tookie-osint v4 adds a .deb package for easy installation on Kali and Debian-based distros.

      └──▷ GET THIS VERSION 
      $ git clone --branch v4 https://github.com/Alfredredbird/tookie-osint.git
# already have the repo? check out this version:
$ git checkout v4
    5. v2.7(a) Jul 14, 2024 · release notes

      tookie-osint v2.7(a) adds detailed scan reports capturing username, subscriber count, post count, handle, and bio.

    Project health

    Issue, contributor and maintainer activity in Alfredredbird/tookie-osint, 2023-10 – 2026-09, as of 2026-09-25. Twelve-month figures first; the trend lines run the whole window.

    1. Contributors 10 +3 vs prior 12 months
    2. Maintainers 1 +0 joined · −1 left, last 12 months
    3. Bus factor 1 committers behind half the commits
    4. Community-filed 100% of issues opened, last 12 months
    5. Median time to close 7.6 days first maintainer reply 13 hours
    6. Open backlog 0 of 27 issues ever filed
    1. Issues opened / month 0 · 0 communitymaintainers
    2. Open backlog 0
    3. Contributors / month 3
    4. Commits / month 7
    5. Stars 2,931
    Issue themes, last 12 months
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